Island in the Desert: Let George Do It (July 10, 1950)

“Island in the Desert” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 10, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine receives a desperate letter from Ray Mackie, a private detective friend, asking him to rescue him from a remote desert island town on the Mexican border where he is trapped and dying of heat. When George arrives, he finds Mackie dead in his hotel room with only a letter for identification, and discovers that Mackie had been secretly investigating a series of suspicious fires in the Mexican border town before his death.

A small desert town on the U.S.-Mexico border, featuring a hotel, a local bar, and a boarding house pool room.

Characters: George Valentine, Ray Mackie, Sheriff Tázco, Páro, Chief Slim, Miss Brooks

Listen for: The mystery of why private detective Ray Mackie concealed his identity in this remote border town and what connection his death has to the fires he was investigating across the border.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.