36xxxx 060 Chamber Filling With Water: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 060 Chamber Filling With Water” 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 island of Eucharitya, the Gregory party is held in steel cells on a lower level, after a failed escape. Mrs. Gregory, her daughter Joan, Jerry and Captain Bradford learn that the island is being moved along the ocean floor. Alone with Jerry and Joan, Mrs. Gregory voices her despair, while the two young people look for a way out. They find water seeping through a hole in a cell wall, and Joan explains that the prisoners here are slowly flooded until they give up what their captors want. Mrs. Gregory and Captain Bradford weigh surrendering the captain's formula. Then someone knocks on the door, and Captain Bradford steps out to investigate.

A steel cell on a lower level of Eucharitya, an island colony of mad scientists that is being moved along the ocean floor.

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

Listen for: The seeping water in the corner of the cell, and the knock at the door that Captain Bradford goes to answer.

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.