| Show Name: | Tropical Hot Dog Night |
| Format: | Comedy drama |
| Country: |  United States |
| Language: | English |
| Starring: | Robert Lorick |
| Director: | Thomas Lopez |
| Record Location: | United States |
| First Aired: | 2007 |
| Website: | http://www.zbs.org/ |
Tropical Hot Dog Night is a radio drama, produced by the ZBS Foundation.[1] It is the nineteenth of the Jack Flanders adventure series and the third of The Fantastic Voyages of Captain Jack Flanders sub-series. It combines elements of Old-time radio with psychic phenomena, supernatural beings and energies.
The crew are sailing towards Key Milagro - also known as Key Diablo by inhabitants of the neighboring islands - where a mysterious fog descends each night and the inhabitants of Key Milagro find the color draining out of everything and being replaced by a rich, hard-boiled film noir fantasy life. The local crime bookshop owner, Johnny Seven, seems to have the answers but he's more interested in playing than talking. Sometimes, however, being dressed to kill is more than just a turn of phrase…
Part other-worldly tale and part homage to the film noir era of the 1940s and 50s. The title came from a song by Captain Beefheart from his album Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller).
Dominique: "It's you, Jack. You think I'm skinny because you have such a fat head."[2]
Johnny: "You seem like the kind of woman who reads classics...Dostoevsky, Chekov, guys like that. It's not the kind of books I sell."
Rose: "You mean books about tough guys?"
Johnny: "That's right."
Rose: "And tough babes who appear helpless and find some sap to buy their sob story and do their dirty work for them and the next thing you know she's skipped out with the dough, he's been framed, she's south of the border sipping Margaritas and the sap is wearing striped suits in the big house. Is that what you mean?"
Johnny: "Er.... why don't you just keep on browsing."[3]
Amanda: "You know, people say, I gotta get some work done but you never hear them say, I gotta get some fun done."[4]
Recorded at Froggy Acres Studios, Fort Miller, NY.
Tropical Hot Dog Night Disc 1
Tropical Hot Dog Night Disc 2
Jack, Mojo, Claudine and Dominique sail around the Tropics encountering mysterious and other-worldly incidents.