The Starlight Pier: Let George Do It (February 25, 1952)

“The Starlight Pier” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 25, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private investigator George Valentine is hired by Ike Mannis, owner of the Starlight Pier amusement zone, to investigate a series of sabotage incidents. Two accidents involving the Ferris wheel and tunnel of love ride have occurred on consecutive Fridays, each carefully tampered with by someone knowledgeable about carnival machinery, threatening to ruin Mannis's business as customers stay away in fear.

Starlight Pier amusement zone, featuring various rides including a Ferris wheel, tunnel of love, and carousel.

Characters: George Valentine, Ike Mannis, Miss Brooks, Ned Parker, Wheels, Zelda

Listen for: George investigates the sabotaged rides and questions the pier's workers, while a fortune teller named Zelda warns him of danger ahead.

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.