36xxxx 047 Joan Fires At Jerry: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 047 Joan Fires At Jerry” 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

Jerry and Joan, captives on the Magic Island in the South Seas, must act before eight o'clock, when Mrs. Gregory and Captain Bradford plan to escape in Johnson's boat. Their task is to take the radio and power chambers. Descending through the island's levels in an elevator, they reach the laboratory, where the Euclidean scientists lie asleep from a gas accident, and they examine a scale model of the island to plan their route. Joan explains that the power rooms are sealed and must be left running, so the pair focus instead on the radio room and the electrical dispatch room beneath it. They also find protective paint that will guard them against the guards' ray guns, and the episode ends with them preparing to confront those guards.

The Magic Island in the South Seas, surrounded by magnetic fog, with its pier, elevators, laboratory, and underground levels.

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

Listen for: Joan's careful explanations of the island's layout, and the moment the pair realize they can use protective paint against the guards' ray guns.

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.