36xxxx 028 Jones And Jerry Board The Sub: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 028 Jones And Jerry Board The Sub” 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

Captain Tex Bradford, Mrs. Gregory and Jerry are stranded with the Gregory yacht inside a submerged lock beneath the hidden island of Euclidean, which lies fifty feet under the South Pacific near a battle fleet holding maneuvers. Jerry and Mrs. Gregory rig the broken aerial to the anchor chain so their radio can reach Johnson's boat. Johnson's coded messages suggest a pigeon carrying a warning is on its way, and Bradford realizes the island's scientists have located Johnson's position. Bradford then orders Jerry to report to a submarine, while Joan is also taken aboard, leaving Mrs. Gregory worried for them both. The episode is from the Magic Island series.

A submerged steel lock beneath the hidden island of Euclidean, fifty feet below the South Pacific Ocean, near a battle fleet holding maneuvers.

Characters: Captain Tex Bradford, Mrs. Gregory, Jerry, Joan, Johnson, G-47

Listen for: Jerry's quick deduction about the coded message and the pigeon, and Bradford's sudden order sending Jerry to the submarine.

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.