Jeopardy: Lux Radio Theatre (March 15, 1954)

“Jeopardy” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 15, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Doug and Helen Stillwing and their son Bobby travel south into Mexico on a vacation in their trailer, driving a remote dirt road toward a beach. At a roadblock they are waved through by police, and later the family pauses at a deserted gas station. Doug is trapped beneath a fallen timber at the jetty while the tide rises, and Helen must find help. The episode is the Lux Radio Theatre presentation Jeopardy, originally broadcast on March 15, 1954.

Mexico, along a remote dirt road in Baja California and a deserted jetty on the Pacific coast

Characters: Doug Stillwing, Helen Stillwing, Bobby Stillwing

Listen for: Doug trapped beneath the timber at the jetty while the tide rises, and Helen's frantic search for rope and help

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.