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Magic Island - Single Episodes

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MAGIC ISLAND

Magic Island was a syndicated serial that first aired sometime in 1936 and consisted of one hundred thirty 12-minute episodes. The storyline dealt with a wealthy woman and her search for her long lost daughter. She finds her on a man-made island that can submerge to avoid detection. The series was targeted for a juvenile audience and small children are the main focus of the story line. From the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR. Information from "The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All Circulating Shows" by Jay Hickerson, and Roger Hohenbrink.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

Jerry Hall's Proposal

11:37

Leaving L.A. For Magic Island

11:38

Strange Windstorm

11:51

Strange Bank Of Fog

11:31

Tex Bradford Prepares His Straightoscope

12:00

Island In The Viewer

11:46

Pulled By A Magnetic Force

12:00

Joan Is Found On Euclidia

11:56

G-47 Uses His Ray Gun

11:53

False Radio Message

11:59

Island Secrets

11:44

Last Radio Message From Magic Island

11:48

Joan Stays On The Yacht

11:45

The Cloth Factory On The Island

11:34

Staged Escape Attempt

12:01

Soundproof Seawead Cloth

11:26

Homing Pigeon

11:48

Pigeons Released

11:32

The Secret Formula

11:40

G-47 Has The Pigeon & Formula

11:39

A Different Formula

12:02

Trapped In An Elevator

11:54

Elevator Escape

12:02

Stolen Oxygen Tank

12:00

Battleship Approach

12:03

Magic Island Prepares To Submerge

11:38

Radio Signals Within The Island

11:55

Jones & Jerry Board The Sub

11:55

A Woman Commander

12:05

Message To Johnson

12:03

Joan & Jerry Ray Gunned

11:40

Submarine Heads For Johnson's Ship

11:59

Submarine Surfaces To Meet Johnson's Ship

11:53

Johnson Speeds Away

11:53

Tex Contacts Johnson

12:00

Johnson's Ship Runs Out Of Fuel

11:38

Gregory's Yacht Pulled Out Into The Light

12:08

Commander Talks To Johnson

12:23

Everyone Arrives

12:04

Mcleod Poses As Johnson

11:56

Help From The Sub Commander

11:24

The Gas Is Released

11:28

Jerry & Joan Escape

11:11

Transferring Oil

10:56

Escape Attempt Tonight

11:16

Power Shutdown Plan

11:40

Joan Fires At Jerry

11:37

Escape From Guard

11:37

Ready To Throw Switches

11:20

The Alarm Sound

11:27

Swim For The Boat

11:43

Island Sinks & A Successful Escape

11:17

Lighted Buoys Mark The Route

11:21

Out Of Fuel

11:25

Magic Island Sub Catches Up

11:20

Sub Tows The Yacht Back To Magic Island

10:41

Two Guards Knocked Out

11:07

In A Chamber 90 Feet Underwater

11:32

Island Gets Ready To Move

11:27

Chamber Filling With Water

11:05

Tex Is Ray Gunned

11:28

Safe For Three Days

11:24

Keystone Notes

11:42

Locked In Rooms

11:22

Reunited

11:24

Stealing A Sub

11:33

The Warning Signal

11:17

90 Second Intervals

11:22

Attacked From The Air

11:29

Sub Dives To 9000 Feet

11:18

Seconds For The Combination

11:33

Protection Around The Sub

11:25

Stern Section Dumped Off

11:49

Getting Seasick

11:57

Another Sub Follows

11:34

Tex Tries The Radio

11:44

Coded Message Keynotes Hit Sub

12:04

Sailboat Pickup

11:53

Sprayed With A Chemical

11:55

Rescued By Oil Tanker

12:04

Joan & Jerry Stay Behind

11:50

Jerry Shows L.A. To Joan

11:39

Someone's In The House

11:34

Smelling Smoke Alarms Everyone

11:36

Planning The Return

11:37

Joan Is Afraid

11:36

Sailing For The Magic Island

11:36

Joan Questions The Crew

11:23

A Large Bad Storm Causes Problems

11:27

Engineer Peterson Is Taken Prisoner

11:21

Ship Arrives At The Magic Island

11:18

The Descent Into Modern Atlantis

11:12

Everyone Disappears

11:03

Questioned By G47

11:29

A Beautiful Apartment

11:38

The City Is Discovered

11:30

13 Large Cave Rooms

11:10

The Old Skipper Found Caring For Animals

11:34

Meeting Master Builder

11:17

Artificial Volcano Eruption

11:20

Ships Moved Away

11:00

Comparing Notes

11:19

The Pigeons

11:30

Talk About Future Plans

11:43

Jerry & Tex Disappear

11:46

Listening To Radio Broadcast

11:43

Aboard A Test Rocket Plane

11:54

A Test Flight

11:41

Instruments Have Failed

11:38

Rocket Plane Down In The Water

11:29

All Four Are Rescued

11:46

Elaine Has A New Home

11:26

An Airlock Is Discovered

11:23

Making Escape Plans

11:30

A Keystone Note Demonstration

11:13

Tex Is Suspicious Of Elaine

11:21

Daring Escape Attempt

12:06

Landing On Lake Hollywood

11:47

A Second Return Is Planned

11:34

Tex Takes Off With Elaine & Is Seen

11:32

Stopping Reporters Story

11:50

Tex & Elaine Control Euclidia

11:55

Motor Almost Dead

10:57

Island Being Raised

11:14

They Are Sinking

11:33

On A Life Raft

11:21

G47 Surrenders

11:28

G47 Has Disappeared

11:29

G47 Is A Professor

11:30

Enrolling In College

11:22

Bewertungen

highly recommend

(5 Sterne)

With thousands and thousands of books and Orr shows available, I must admit a weakness. Over the past several years I've relistened to "Magic Island" 3 times from beginning to end. It's hard to find such a good serial with so many episodes to hold your imagination. Also, this series is unique by not having a 5 minute moaning organ intro before the show actually starts. Highly recommended show

Thank You

(5 Sterne)

For quite some time now, i've been feeling dangerously close to running out of OTR shows worth listening to. And now with only four episodes left of The Magic Island, that feeling is coming back. Somebody slipped a lot of real science into all the Golly Gee action......and somehow one really does come to care about these Old School American characters. Certainly the best self-contained serial i've heard since City of the Dead (Adventures by Morse). now it looks like i'll have to make do with Jerry of the Circus!

Mystery Solved and Wonderful Memories Revisted

(4 Sterne)

For sixty years I've had fleeting recall of an old radio show I listened to with my older brother in Vancouver, BC in 1951. As a young child I didn't fully understand what I was hearing but recalled that people were on a boat trapped in a strange, mysterious fog. I've often wondered what it was really about. A few days ago I began an online search for "old radio show boat lost in fog" and very quickly discovered "Magic Island". I am currently working my way through all 130 episodes and enjoying them immensely. What a lovely trip down Memory Lane to a simpler time!

Perfect story for kids of all ages!

(5 Sterne)

My family started listening on a road trip months ago. It enthralled them...and made the trip a fun journey with Jerry Hall, Joan Gregory and company. Even after the trip, every time we got in the car, it was, "Daddy, can we hear more of The Magic Island?" This is a rare gem on Librivox.

magic island

(5 Sterne)

awesome series ...sorry I finished it ...but will listen to it again ...the scientific references for a show from 1936 is amazing ...I'd like to know who the writers were and the cast ...

Enchanting

(5 Sterne)

Just the kind of radio program that keeps you glued to the radio. And that you never want to miss.

Smart, fascinating, addicting best kept secret in OTR

(5 Sterne)

This is my 2nd review. The recording is perfect, there's no muffling or overly compressed files that make it hard to hear or make out the words, its just like hearing it off of an LP, so thank you very much to the original recorder! I can only describe this genre as "Science Fantasy". It combines fantasy and real science, and fiction science too. It's from the 1930s and as I said remarkably fine recording. Special agent "G-lady" Patricia and her Man Friday "Tex" and boy wonder "Jerry Hall" take a yacht trip to the 30th parallel, to investigate the possible report of Patricia's long lost daughter whom she has not seen since the girl was an infant (from a shipwreck 14 yrs previous) as reported via amateur radio aired by dying sailor who'd miraculously escaped a mysterious island- an amateur report heard by the boy: Jerry is "one of two people in the world with a 1 and a half meter amateur license" that quote was from the program. I think it's around 200 MHz, you'd have to look up the amateur bands and 1930s history to look this up but the show is fantasy, after all. There is a lot of real science in the program, that in the 1930s more of the listening audience would be sure to understand probably better than today's audience.Show aimed toward children ostensibly, but adults were found to be enthralled by the show (like your reviewer) Tubes that need heating up, electro-magnetism, other sorts of then-technology is featured strongly along with amateur and HF/VHF radio. sailing terminology, electronics, and suspensions of disbelief but the writing, acting, and dialogue make this show top shelf, and this is no easy ace given here. Sally Creighton as "Patricia Gregory" her voice is lovely and I found her character believable and quite appealing. Rosa Barcelo as the long-lost daughter "Joan" aka "'Cleostra' (her name given her by "G-47", the evil head man of Euclidia- the Magic Island) Patricia Gregory finds Joan, her long lost daughter on the magic island, named "Euclidia" a created island that can submerge to evade passing ships and planes! What a miraculous James Bond evil lair, created by an (evil?) genius, who has plans to create a one world technocracy. Amazing moments: In the first few episodes, when "Joan" is getting to know her long lost mother, Patricia's character teaches Joan to pray. Patricia weeps with thankfulness and joy, and sadness that her daughter never was taught to pray before. The episode fades out to the words of Joan repeating the word of Patricia :"now I lay me down to sleep.. I pray the Lord my soul to keep.." From The Digital Deli FTP website there is a definitive guide to Magic Island, and it mentions the fact the program refers to science such as: The emerging theory of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technology and weapons. Hydrogen as a power source. The theory of binary chemical weapons. fascinating program.

Surprising good!

(4 Sterne)

I've been listening to OTR for close to 15 years and this series somehow missed my attention until last month. Quite good, and despite supposedly being a "young person's show" I found it quite good. Production values are good, acting good, and the recording quality is very good, About a half dozen episodes seem out of order but only by 1 episode and the episodes are so short that you can keep up easily. Don't be dissuaded by the large episode count, they go fast and the story never bogs down.