36xxxx 009 G-47 Uses His Ray Gun: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 009 G-47 Uses His Ray Gun” is an episode of Magic Island, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

On the South Sea island of Euclidea, Jerry Hall, Patricia Gregory and Captain Tex Bradford have finally reached the sinister stronghold of a scientific colony. Mrs. Gregory is reunited with her long-lost daughter Joan, who has grown up in the colony and speaks of its strange customs. Mrs. Gregory learns that the captain has been placed in solitary confinement for asking too many questions, and that the colony's leader, G-47, watches everything that happens on the island. Jerry is ordered to send a false message to California. The scene ends as G-47 turns a ray gun on the boy.

The magic island of Euclidea in the South Seas, a fortress-like scientific colony

Characters: Jerry Hall, Patricia Gregory, Captain Tex Bradford, Joan Gregory, G-47, Clestra

Listen for: Joan's reunion with her mother, the false message Jerry is ordered to send to California, and G-47 turning his ray gun on Jerry at the end

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.