36xxxx 114 Making Escape Plans: Magic Island

“36xxxx 114 Making Escape Plans” is an episode of Magic Island, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

In the underwater city of Eucchitya, Mrs. Gregory, her daughter Joan and their new friend Elaine, a Eucchityan girl, wait in their quarters for Jerry and Captain Bradford to return. Mrs. Gregory offers to take Elaine into her home as a guest while she learns life in the outside world, and Elaine is overcome by the kindness shown to her. Jerry and Captain Bradford then report that they have found an airlock near the surface that could offer an escape. They consider how to reach the surface, how to signal for rescue, and how to smuggle a homing pigeon aboard a rocket plane. The Magic Island series is the setting, and the lead actors and original air date are not given in the transcript.

The underwater city of Eucchitya, in the quarters of the Gregory party

Characters: Mrs. Gregory, Joan, Elaine, Jerry, Captain Bradford, Tex

Listen for: Captain Bradford and Jerry report finding an escape airlock near the surface, and the plan to signal for rescue with a homing pigeon

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.