36xxxx 085 Planning The Return: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 085 Planning The Return” 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

In Los Angeles, Mrs. Gregory, her daughter Joan, and Jerry Hall are locked in the radio room of Mrs. Gregory's home after a faint smoke fills the house. Mrs. Gregory insists they stay inside until Captain Bradford or Johnson arrives to let them out, while she and Captain Bradford keep Joan and Jerry in the dark about how much they know. The group watches warning lights on a signal board as a stranger moves through the house toward the study. The smoke proves strange, and Captain Bradford arrives with Tex to explain what has been happening. He reports missing Euclidean submarines and a rescue that went wrong, and the group begins planning a return to the Magic Island of Euclidean.

Los Angeles, at Mrs. Gregory's home in the radio room, with the harbor and the Magic Island of Euclidean referred to in the story

Characters: Mrs. Gregory, Joan, Jerry Hall, Captain Bradford, Tex, Johnson

Listen for: Captain Bradford's explanation of the strange smoke and the disappearing submarines, and the decision to return to Euclidean

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.