The Island of Tin-Yutan | Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (1949) | South Seas Radio Adventure

🎙️ YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR - "The Island of Tin-Yutan" aka "The South Sea Adventure" (Episode 024)
📅 Original Air Date: November 5, 1949
🎭 Starring: Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar
📻 Network: CBS Radio

Johnny Dollar travels about as far from Hartford, Connecticut as you can get! South Pacific fever was sweeping America. James Micheners Pulitzer Prize-winning book had sparked imaginations, and Rodgers and Hammersteins musical had opened on Broadway just seven months earlier.

🏝️ RADIO MAGIC:
Exotic locations offered radio something television struggled to match - pure imagination. Sound effects created tropical settings with bird calls, crashing surf, and humid jungle atmospheres. Listeners pictured paradise however they wanted.

🚢 INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE:
Insurance covered cargo ships, island properties, antiquities being transported. Pirates still operated in remote waters. Treasure hunting captured public imagination. The Pacific held secrets.

✈️ POST-WAR TRAVEL:
Travel was becoming possible for ordinary Americans, though expensive. A generation that had seen the world through military service wanted to see more.

⚠️ COPYRIGHT STATUS:
Pre-1972 radio broadcasts generally fall outside federal copyright protection.

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