Bill Hillman's
Volume
011
RADIO'S
GOLDEN AGE
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144: Diamond of Ashair Radio Shows Serial
Commentary and
synopses of all 39 shows
Contents
Part
I: Edgar Rice Burroughs Radio Projects
Part
II: Program Logs of the Various Tarzan Series &
A List of Those Currently
Available
Part
III: Synopses of 77 Episodes of the First Series
-- Tarzan of the Apes
Part I: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Radio Projects
From his first success
in selling Under the Moons of Mars to a pulp magazine in 1911, ERB
had been successful in selling his ideas and literary creations to other
media: newspaper serials, magazine articles, art, book publishing, movie
features & serials, comic strips, phonograph records, advertising schemes,
real estate development, special books & clubs for young people, music,
foreign licensing, and merchandising.
In the late '20s, ERB
was intrigued by the new medium of radio which he recognized as a another
avenue for creative expression, as well as an opportunity for great money-making
ventures. Noticing the strong interest of the radio-listening public
in the top shows of the day, he suggested, "I have evolved a wild and possibly
ludicrous plan of publicity for (my books)...there might be possibilities
in the reading of one of my books by myself over the radio for fifteen
minutes nightly in conjunction with some program having a national hook-up."
He felt he could overcome professed nervousness if he could read from "familiar
copy" and not be required to speak extemporaneously. Apparently the timing
and circumstances were not right for this proposal, but this early interest
led to other radio projects.
ERB 1931: Perhaps in my radio contract I shall insist
upon the reservation to me of the interplanetary rights. Why not? Radio
rights and sound and dialog rights would have seemed as preposterous twenty
years ago...long before my copyrights expire television rights will be
worth a fortune....
In 1931 Burroughs approved a Tarzan series of fifteen-minute,
daily radio shows transcribed to 16" discs, by the American Radio Syndicate.
The scripts, which used a combination of narration, dialogue and sound
effects, were closely supervised by ERB who had a special interest in the
serial since it starred daughter Joan and her husband James Pierce. He
was fascinated with the quality of the sound effects but did not hesitate
to criticize the scripts whenever they appeared to be sloppily prepared,
or whenever they presented the apeman as showing fear, laughing or exhibiting
any other out-of-character behaviour.
TARZAN PROGRAM OFF TO FLYING START
-- World Premiere Introduces Radio Tarzan to Thousands
Saturday, September 10th, the first Radio
Premiere on record presented to radio fans all over the State the first
episode in the thrilling adventures of "Tarzan of the Apes," sponsored
by the Signal Oil and Gas Company. Critics and thousands of motorists who
jammed the World Premiere Radio Show at Fox Pantages Theatre in Hollywood
proclaimed it the most fascinating and colorful radio program they had
ever heard.
Among those who participated in the stage
show were Jim Pierce, all-American football player and well-known actor,
who takes the part of Tarzan in Signal's sensational radio serial; Miss
Joan Burroughs, talented actress and daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs;
Mr. Burroughs himself, internationally known author of all "Tarzan" stories
together with the entire radio cast.... --Signal News - Published by
the Signal Oil & Gas Co. in the Interest of Its Dealers., Vol. 1, No.
3, September 1932.
Within two years Burroughs, perhaps anxious to gain
more control of the radio shows for ERB Inc., started to voice great dissatisfaction
with the scripts and considered taking on the actual writing of the scripts
himself.
ERB 1935:
There is one factor that may have more effect
on reducing book sales than any number of depressions, and that is radio,
to which we are looking for far greater returns than our book royalties
ever brought us. Already, with two programs, we are netting more than we
do from the sale of all our books, which, taken in connection with the
fact that there are hundreds of similar programs on the air, suggests that
people are taking their fiction this way instead of through books.
1936 - I SEE BY THE PAPERS Radio
Show Proposal:
ERB conceived a "live talent program" for
radio. The setting would be the editorial office of the Tarzana Tribune.
The cast would include Burroughs as a columnist, along with a good-hearted
but sarcastic and critical small-town editor-publisher, a dumb blonde stenographer
and an office boy. ERB would discuss his daily column -- filled with news,
quips and gags -- with the editor who would give caustic comments about
it. The human interest would center about the problems and family troubles
of the stenographer and office boy. Demo recordings of the show, as well
as proposals for spin-off column, were rejected.
1939 - QUIET, PLEASE! Radio Show
Proposal:
ERB saw this as a weekly, fifteen-minute,
one-character show in which he would comment on, and present listener responses
about, news events, jokes and verses. The emphasis was on quiet -- ERB
vehemently expressed his objections to noise. His ramblings on the topic
would include verse such as:
The saddest sound that ere did cut
The silence and disturb:
The traffic coppers "putt-putt-putt"
That pulls you to the curb.
---ERB
Again there was no sponsor interest and
the show was never broadcast.
Part
II: Program Logs of the Various Tarzan Series
I. TARZAN OF THE APES
- The first Tarzan appearance on radio September
12, 1932 -- a syndicated serial that lasted
for 286 episodes. It starred James and Joan Burroughs Pierce - also in
the cast was Gale Gordon. See Part III for a synopses of the first 77 episodes
in the Hillman collection.
REF:
Jerry
Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs
Series:
"TARZAN OF THE APES"
ORIGINAL
SYNDICATED SERIAL AMERICAN GOLD SEAL PRODUCTION
American
Gold Seal Productions World Radio Network
STARS:
James Pierce and Joan Burroughs
WRITER:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
"TARZAN'S
FIRST BIRTHDAY"
1 09-12-32 :10:00
"BATTLE
WITH THE APES"
2 09-14-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
IN YOUNG MANHOOD"
3 09-16-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
ATTACKED BY TABOR"
4 09-19-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
SEES A SHIP"
5 09-21-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
RESCUES THE CAPTAIN"
6 09-23-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
RESCUES THE CAPTAIN AGAIN" 7 09-26-32 :10:00
"DID
THE BOTTLE REALLY GO OVERBOARD" 8 09-28-32
:10:00
"THE
CAPTAIN IS IN QUICKSAND"
9 09-30-32 :10:00
"A
FIGHT ABOARD SHIP"
10 10-03-32 :10:00
"TARZAN'S
SHACK"
11 10-05-32 :10:00
"MUTINOUS
CAPTAIN KILLED"
12 10-07-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
DELIVERS THE SAILOR"
13 10-10-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
RESCUES JANE'S FATHER"
14 10-12-32 :10:00
"CLAYTON
TRIES TO RESCUE THE PROFESSOR" 15 10-14-32
:10:00
"TARZAN
SAVES CLAYTON"
16 10-17-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
SAVES JANE"
17 10-19-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
READS JANE'S LETTER"
18 10-21-32 :10:00
"MORNING
ARRIVES"
19 10-24-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
PRESIDES OVER APES"
20 10-26-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
RESCUES JANE FROM THE APES" 21 10-28-32
:10:00
"THE
PROFESSOR WANTS TO SEARCH
22 10-31-32 :10:00
"RESCUE"
23 11-02-32 :10:00
"TARZAN'S
HUT AFIRE?"
24 11-04-32 :10:00
"CLAYTON
HUNTS TARZAN"
25 11-07-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
FIRES AT CLAYTON"
26 11-09-32 :10:00
"THE
SHIP LEAVES"
27 11-11-32 :10:00
"SEARCH
PARTY IS ATTACKED"
28 11-14-32 :10:00
"PHILANDER
IS CAPTURED"
29 11-16-32 :10:00
"SEARCH
PARTY FINDS A CLUE"
30 11-18-32 :10:00
"THE
JUNGLE AWAKES"
31 11-21-32 :10:00
"JANE
IS CAPTURED BY CANNIBALS"
32 11-23-32 :10:00
"SEARCH
PARTY IS TRAPPED"
33 11-25-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
LEARNS MORE ENGLISH"
34 11-28-32 :10:00
"JANE
AND TARZAN GO INTO THE HUT" 35 11-30-32
:10:00
"SEARCH
PARTY MAKES THEIR MOVE"
36 12-02-32 :10:00
"CANNIBALS
CHOSE THE PROFESSOR"
37 12-05-32 :10:00
"SECOND
ESCAPE TRY"
38 12-07-32 :10:00
"JANE
IS ATTACKED"
39 12-09-32 :10:00
"THE
POISON DRINK"
40 12-12-32 :10:00
"APE
BATTLES SNAKE"
41 12-14-32 :10:00
"RETURN
OF THE SHIP"
42 12-16-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
SAVES JANE"
43 12-19-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
RECAPTURED"
44 12-21-32 :10:00
"REUNITED"
45 12-23-32 :10:00
"ESCAPE"
46 12-26-32 :10:00
"RAIN
COMES"
47 12-28-32 :10:00
"JANE
RECEIVES GRAYSTOKE LOCKET"
48 12-30-32 :10:00
"TARZAN
AND THE CROCODILES"
49 01-02-33 :10:00
"RESCUERS
SEEK SAFETY IN CAVE"
50 01-04-33 :10:00
"ATEMPTED
RESCUE"
51 01-06-33 :10:00
"SOUNDS
IN THE CAVE"
52 01-09-33 :10:00
"THE
WITCH DOCTOR ESCAPES"
53 01-11-33 :10:00
"WITCH
DOCTOR NOISES"
54 01-13-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
FIRES DYNAMITE"
55 01-16-33 :10:00
"THE
CANNIBALS ATTACK"
56 01-18-33 :10:00
"THE
ATTACK"
57 01-20-33 :10:00
"THE
LION ATTACKS"
58 01-23-33 :10:00
"THE
PROFESSOR COLLAPSES"
59 01-25-33 :10:00
"THE
PARTY GETS MADE AT CLAYTON" 60
01-27-33 :10:00
"THE
MUTINEERS RETURN"
61 01-30-33 :10:00
"JANE
IS ATTACKED"
62 02-01-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
AND JANE TALK"
63 02-03-33 :10:00
"JANE
IS CAPTURED AGAIN" 64
02-06-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
TO THE RESCUE"
65 02-08-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
TO THE SHIP"
66 02-10-33 :10:00
"SHIP
RESCUE"
67 02-13-33 :10:00
"SHIP
WRECK"
68 02-15-33 :10:00
"CAPTAIN
TRACY'S ARM"
69 02-17-33 :10:00
"OTHERS
ON THE REEF"
70 02-20-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
WITH THE APES"
71 02-22-33 :10:00
"JANE
AT THE DUM DUM"
72 02-24-33 :10:00
"ELEPHANT
STAMPEDE"
73 02-27-33 :10:00
"LT.
MAKES HIS ESCAPE"
74 03-01-33 :10:00
"TARZAN
MEETS MUTINEERS" 75
03-03-33 :10:00
"THE
ESCAPE"
76 03-06-33 :10:00
"WEEKS
LATER"
77 03-08-33 :10:00
TARZAN AND
THE GOLDEN DAYS OF RADIO:
Programs available
at Adventures in Cassettes
"Your Internet Source
for Vintage Radio Shows & Products" http://www.aic-radio.com/
"II. TARZAN AND
THE DIAMOND OF ASHER:
Although originally
broadcast in 1934, the following introduction was penned by Edgar Rice
Burroughs for the announcer to read introducing a 1940 broadcast of Tarzan
And The Diamond of Asher. "We bring you Tarzan, that immortal fictional
character of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in a new and exciting serial entitled
TARZAN AND THE DIAMOND OF ASHER, which is adapted from the novel, 'Tarzan
And The Forbidden City.' Deep in the heart of Africa rises a mighty cone-shaped
mountain, an extinct volcano, in the huge crater of which lies The Forbidden
City of Asher... To reach this stronghold two safaris endure hardships
and perils that bring death to some and high adventure to all... One safari
is bent on the rescue of the son of its leader... the other, headed by
a wily and unscrupulous Oriental, seeks only the Father of Diamonds...
And through the intrigue and mystery and the danger moves the majestic
figure of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle." (Originally
a 39-episode serial of 15 minute installments)
III. TARZAN AND
THE FIRES OF TOHR 1936:
Mysterious Africa
is home to Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal character, Tarzan of the Apes.
While investigating the illegal activities of slave traders and ivory smugglers,
Tarzan and his friend, Paul D'Arnot save a member of the Burton-Ashleigh
Expedition from death. After learning that the expedition is lost, Tarzan
agrees to lead the group out of the jungle. Little did they realize however,
that they would soon be captured by a strange yellow race, and taken to
the lost city of Tohr... There they faced the dangers of the arena, rogue
elephants and sacrifice to the Fires of Tohr—the result of a hidden lake
of volcanic fire that shoots up through a pit to the very arms of the temple
god, an idol carved in the likeness of a lion. Befriending the son of the
ruler of a rival city who is held as a slave in Tohr, Tarzan and his friends
face death at every turn. Love, hate, jealousy, and political intrigue—as
well as courage and loyalty—all play parts in this thrilling serial produced
under the personal direction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Adaptation of EDGAR
RICE BURROUGHS' Story TARZAN AND THE FIRES OF TOHR © 1939 EDGAR RICE
BURROUGHS, INC. TARZAN® Owned by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC. Used by
Permission (This series of 15-minutes installments
was transcribed but never released for broadcast. )
IV. TARZAN - LORD
OF THE JUNGLE - "JUNGLE LEGACY":
1951 - 1953
"From the heart of
the jungle comes a savage cry of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!
From the black core of dark Africa... land of enchantment, mystery and
violence comes one of the most colorful figures of all time. Transcribed
from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs—Tarzan, the bronzed, white
son of the jungle!” Thus Commodore Productions introduced their 1951 radio
series based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal character, played by Lamont
Johnson. These exciting stories carry Tarzan the length and breadth of
Africa and let listeners' imaginations send them on flights of fancy throughout
the Dark Continent. The collection includes:
The Decoy - 1/11/51
Black Ivory - 1/18/51 The Hooded Death - 1/25/51 Manuema - 2/1/51 The Siren
of Omdurmara - 2/8/51 Black Gold of Africa - 2/15/51 The Coward - 2/22/51
The Female of the Specie - 3/1/51 The End of the World - 3/8/51 Across
A Continent - 3/15/51 The Killer - 3/22/51 Jungle Legacy - 3/29/51 TARZAN®
Owned by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC. Used by Permission. "
The Complete Log for
the Tarzan- Lord of the Jungle series:
This Commodore series
was first broadcast in 1951. The CBS re-broadcast of this series of 67
stand-alone, 1/2 hour episodes started on March 22, 1952 and ran until
June 27, 1953. Starring Lamont Johnson.
PROGRAM TITLES:
1. The Siren Of Omdur
Mara - 2. Tarzan And The Manuema - 3. Black Gold Of Africa - 4. Black Ivory
1 - 5. Tarzan And The Coward - 6. The Female Of The Species - 7. Tarzan
And The Killer - 8. Jungle Legacy - 9. Jungle Orchids - 10. Gold Coast
Robbery - 11. Life Or Death - 12. D For Diamond And Death - 13. Pirates
Of Cape Bandera - 14. Lake Of Blood - 15. Jungle Heat - 16. Jungle Hijackers
- 17. Tarzan And The Stranger - 18. Arab Vengeance - 19. Tarzan In Captivity
- 20. Gold of the Sudan - 21. Stolen Jewels - 22. The Drum Without A Heart
1 - 23. Danger Off San Lorenquo - 24. Terror At Night - 25. Headhunters
Of Yambesi - 26. Trophy Room - 27. Death Has Small Wings - 28. Tarzan's
Magic Amulet - 29. The Strange Book Of Araby - 30. Cathedral Of The Congo
- 31. The City of Sleep - 32. Jungle Odds - 33. Small Packages - 34. Adventure
on the Road to Timbuctu - 35. Strange Island - 36. African Thanksgiving
- 37. Hunter's Fury - 38. Congo Murder - 39. The Strange Book Of Araby
(Repeat) - 40. Congo Christmas - 41. The Siren of Omdur Mara (Repeat) -
42. The Hand of Death - 43. Man From Another World - 44. Quicksands of
Wadehara - 45. Trail of Death - 46. Killer At Large - 47. Paradise Island
- 48. Demon of Rongu - 49. Hooded Death - 50. Simba Hodari - 51. Omen of
the Emerald - 52. Volcano of the Sun - 53. Jungle Orchids 34 (Repeat) -
54. End Of The World - 55. Arena Of Death - 56. Jungle Smoke - 57. Evidence
Destroyed - 58. The Missing Element - 59. New Death - 60. The Lipagor -
61. The Hot Rod Kid - 62. Mask Of Monotiki - 63. None So Blind - 64. Night
Riders Of Tomkia - 65 The American Family Robinson - 66. The Long Journey
- 67. Two In The Bush - ??. Hooded Death - ...not broadcast... Tarzan And
The Decoy ... Across A Continent ... Curse Of The Pharaohs ... Tarzan's
Mistake (Thanks to Buxton & Owen's Radio's Golden Age, Munango-Keewati,
AVPRO, Jay Hickerson et al)
Part III: Synopses
of 77 Shows in the First Series
Tarzan of the
Apes
From rough listening
notes made by the author shortly after 77 of these shows on reel-to-reel
tapes were added to the Hillman Library in July 1969
TARZAN OF THE
APES
An American Gold Seal
Production
Starring; James Pierce
as Tarzan......Joan Burroughs Pierce as Jane
(Apology: Notes
from the first 12 episodes have been mislaid...temporarily, I hope)
Tape
1 -- Track 1 (Temporarily unavailable)
Tape 1 -- Track 2 (Temporarily
unavailable)
Tape 1 -- Track 3 (Episodes
13-17)
Episode 13: Tarzan
drops pirate from tree...Retreats...Bury treasure...Tarzan digs up chest...Buries
in jungle...Porter and Philander wander off...Numa attacks
Episode 14:
Numa attacks Porter and Philander...Tarzan pulls them to safety...Clayton
and Jane housecleaning...Ship has gone...Find Greystoke diary...Clayton
rushes out with rifle...hears Porter
Episode 15: Clayton
rushes to save...Porter returns in meantime...Tells of strange rescue...Tarzan
follows...Clayton examines him...Gun goes off...Porter and Philander go
to search for Clayton...Jane hears shot...goes to door...Lion attacks cabin...Breaks
window bars...Jane shoots...
Episode 16:
Tarzan and Clayton hear Jane...Tarzan returns...Grabs Sabor by the tail...Tarzan
fights and kills the lion...Tarzan gives his ape cry...
Episode 17:
Party talks of ape language...Prepare to eat...Tarzan looks in the window
at night...Steals Jane’s letter...
Tape I: Track 4 (Episodes
18-23)
Episode 18: Tarzan reads
Jane’s letter...finds kinship...Next sunset...Quote Shakespeare...Cecil
and Jane check wood on beach headland...Hear Dum Dum...Tarzan goes to Dum
Dum...Porter discusses skeleton...Tarzan dances with apes...Victory dance...Apes
sleep...Tarzan returns...
Episode 19:
Jungle wakes...Tarzan meets Tantor...Breakfast...Talk of position...Clayton
to hunt...Clayton wounds Horta...Boar attacks...Tarzan kills and carries
boar to hut...
Episode 20:
Tarzan at Dum Dum...Tribal meeting...Terkoz has run amok...Porter discusses
Tarzan...Cecil sets traps and nets...Jane goes for fruit...Terkoz steals
Jane...
Episode 21:
Porter and Philander helpless...Pursue...Tarzan hears her scream...Tarzan
fights Terkoz...Jane hugs Tarzan...Share names...Calls him white skin...
Episode 22:
Porter decides to wander to jungle...Ships off coast...Beacon...Tarzan
builds shelter...Teaches language...Takes her to look for food...Look for
wood for beacon... A light
Episode 23 Ship
sees signal...Sends boat...Jane feels safe...D’Arnot arrives...French navy...[poor
quality skips here]...Tarzan and Jane talk...Fights beast
Tape 2 Track 1 (Episodes
24-31)
Episode 24: Tarzan
sees smoke...This it is the hut...Wants to tell Jane must go...Search party
finds Terkoz [poor quality skips]...Tarzan puts out beacon fire..goes to
hut for diary...Party returns...Clayton shoots him...
Episode 25:
D’Arnot stops him from pursuing...Tarzan returns to Jane...Says he was
shot at...Party finds Diary gone...Night...Door left open...White sailors
carry supplies...Cannibal aims arrow...
Episode 26:
Arrow misses...They think it’s Tarzan...Morning...Jane awakes...English
lesson...Tarzan teaches archery...Party about to leave...close door...Depart...Jane
communicates....Tarzan takes her back...Hear ship...
Episode 27:
Party see evidence of Cannibals...Talk of poison arrows...Jane and Tarzan
reach hut...Steamer disappearing...Jane cries...Thinks left behind...Depends
on Tarzan...Swing into trees...Hear horrible noise....
Episode 28:
Weird noise...To lure them into ambush....find black exhausted men from
plantation going back to tribe...Died...Whites tortured...Night...Jane
and Tarzan watch stars...English lesson...Numa and Sheeta fight below...Numa
kills...Party has seen torches...Philander calls for help...
Episode 29:
Philandertaken...D’Arnot attacks...Find trail...Jane and Tarzan watch moon...Meet
Manu...Hear war drums...Gomangani...Tarzan leaves...Sees blacks crying
Philander...Drums all around the party...See something on edge of trail...
Episode 30:
Find witch doctor with Philanderhelmet and binoculars...Black magic...Tarzan
ropes savage...Kills with arrows and frees Philander...Party comes...Philander
tells story...Tarzan returns to Jane...English lesson and sleep...
Episode 31 Morning...English
lesson...Tarzan leaves for tribal problem...Party approaching Cannibals...They
wonder who Tarzan is...Reach village... plan...Jane hears...Lowers self
to meet them
Tape 2 - Track 2 (Episodes
32-40)
Episode 32: Village
empty...Strange...Tarzan returns...Finds Jane...Returns to platform...Party
enters village...empty...Drums...Gates close...
Episode 33:
Natives close in...D’Arnot talks to leader...Put down guns....Taken to
hut...Says Jane not there...Tarzan and Jane see Gomangani....Attack for
arrows...Party imprisoned in hut...Black returns to village saying he saw
Tarzan and white woman...
Episode 34:
Jane tells Tarzan to take her to the hut...Party realizes Tarzan and Jane
together...Party in trouble...Tarzan and Jane reach hut...Blacks enter
hut...Jane alone...
Episode 35:
Party plan escape...Befriended black plans to help to repay service...Blacks
throw Jane into pit...Tarzan comes...Tarzan calls Tantor...Party has rifles
smuggled to them...Tantor attacks blacks...Rescue...Party attempts escape...Seen...
Episode 36:
Capture...Fastened to stake...D’Arnot wounded blind...Sunset...Tarzan and
Jane return to shelter...Thanks Tantor...English lesson...Blacks dance...D’Arnot
and Professor try to free selves...Blacks take Porter...
Episode 37:
Get Clayton’s knife...Bring back Porter...Black promises to come to them...Jane
teaches word “father”...Tarzan wants father...Chief waiting to capture
Tarzan and Jane before any sacrifices...Then word that Tarzan escaped...Blacks
come to kill...Party run...
Episode 38:
Tarzan hears an explosion and guns at village...Goes to village..Party
flattened...Stupefied natives think it is the work of a god...He plans
to act the part...Throws bullets into the fire...Tribe dances a welcome...Sheeta
attacks Jane...Fights with branch
Episode 39:
Tarzan returns to save Jane...Tarzan jumps on Sheeta...they roll off platform...Tarzan
kills...Party talk of situation and devil god Tarzan.... Now to prove godliness
must drink poison cup...Jane sleeps...
Episode 40:
Party to work magic and swallow poison...chant...Egypt sun worship chant...Clayton
lights rocket...aimed at natives...Tarzan and Jane go to hut...Apes approach...Tarzan
introduces them...They go back to jungle...Witch doctor trying to save
face...Party must drink poison...Porter drinks Episode 41 Synopsis...Tarzan
and Jane on platform...Ape calls Tarzan to Dum Dum...Leaves Taug to protect...Party
drinking poison...Witch doctor drinks...Then party puts tablet in it...Doctor
falls to ground...Party comes to hut...Pretends to save him...Hista attacks
Taug...
Tape 2 -- Track 3 (Episodes
41-47)
Episode 42:
Taug weakening...Jane kills snake...Tarzan returns...Apes know Jane to
be feared...Party explains poison...Promise bring rain and return spirit
to cave mummy...Shot from cruiser? (actually Jane’s shot)... Night falls...Jane
happy...Sings...Tarzan likes it...
Episode 43:
Blacks celebrating because whites are going to bring rain...Witch Doctor
makes them give up rifles...Tarzan and Jane go to village for arrows...village
empty...Jane captured by lone black in hut...Party reach cave behind waterfall...Jump
down into ....Witch Doctor disappears...Trapped in cave...
Episode 44:
Tarzan saves Jane but more blacks close in ...Capture...Party hears Tarzan
has been caught...Find secret exit...Tarzan frees self...Gets guard...Throws
him out of hut...Gives a shout...Chief’s son sets fire to hut...
Episode 45:
Blacks circle blazing hut triumphantly...Tarzan and Jane get out back...Escape
to Witch Doctor’s hut...Party reaches village...Witch Doctor knows Tarzan
and Jane escaped...Party tries to show their god power...Witch Doctor goes
to hut and sees Tarzan and Jane...Tribe surrounds them and closes in....
Episode 46:
Tarzan and Jane captured...Put into hut...Jane then put in another hut...Party
makes plan to rescue Jane...Tarzan frees self...Kills guard...Follows Witch
Doctor carrying Jane...Ropes him...Carries Jane to trees...
Episode 47:
Party sees escape...Grab Witch Doctor and chief...Tarzan and Jane return
to platform...Smell rain coming...go to hut...Party read barometer...Rain
coming...Go through ceremony...Rain comes...
Tape 2 - Track 4 (Episodes
48-55)
Episode 48: Burn effigy
of Tarzan...Long native ceremony...Party free to leave...Clayton cracks...Leave
for hut...Tarzan shows Jane letter and locket...Gives Jane locket...
Episode 49:
Jane learns that the apeman is Tarzan...Party prepares to leave...Witch
Doctor plans revenge...Witch Doctor sends word...Tarzan and Jane at cave...All
go there...Trap...Jane and Tarzan go to river...Jane falls into water...Gimla
attacks...
Episode 50:
Tarzan saves Jane from crocodile...Tarzan and Jane to village...Hear drums...Reach
blacks and party...Jane writes message to warn them and Tarzan puts it
on an arrow...Clayton shoots at them...Natives turn against them...Retreat
to cave...
Episode 51:
Party go to cave...Five sailors left behind...Turn on Clayton...See trapped...Tarzan
and Jane plan...Tarzan to kill black...Party tortures Witch Doctor to find
another exit...Hear inhuman noise...
Episode 52:
[Tape skips]...Party trapped in cave...Tarzan and Jane go to village...Beats
drum...Sets fire to hut...Tarzan and Jane return to cave...See stone across
cave mouth...Sees black trap...Retreats...Hear noise again...Approaching
...Witch Doctor dead?...
Episode 53:
Witch Doctor in suspended animation...Clayton finds balcony with purer
air up stairway...Tarzan goes to shoot blacks...Jane saves Tarzan from
black with arrow...Shoots...Cry...Party hears...Witch Doctor has escaped...Francois
gone...
Episode 54:
Francois calls to them from exit...They try to find...Tarzan waits to kill
chief...Tarzan and Jane hear strange noise again...Blacks go away...Tarzan
says he loves Jane...Tarzan and Jane go to cave...Call down through cleft...Witch
Doctor noise and Jane and Tarzan don’t answer...
Episode 55:
Jane answers...Francois comes to...Jane sets dynamite to open cavern...It
Blows!...
Tape 3 -- Track 1 (Episodes
56-62)
Episode 56: Explosion...Hole
opened...Must get up before cannibals come...Reach top...Start for hut...Hear
Witch Doctor noise again...Cannibals coming ... Tarzan prepares...
Episode 57:
Not blacks but the sailors...Go farther...Find place to make a stand...Attack...Tarzan
to the trees...Clayton goes after Witch Doctor...Says he killed him...Tarzan
warns of mass attack...ATTACK!
Episode 58:
Attackers are beaten off...Tarzan goes to get Witch Doctor’s body...Sailors
dead...Party retreats farther...Tarzan throws Witch Doctor at attackers...Retreat...Stop
for Porter and Clayton...Fever...
Episode 59:
Lion attacks...Leaps on Clayton...Tarzan attacks lion...Gives ape yell...Tarzan
eats...Porter collapses...Jane cries...
Episode 60:
Travelling...Professor walking now...Not far from hut...Tarzan hunts...Clayton
hates Tarzan...Tarzan returns...Clayton shoots...They fight...Jane stops
him...Tarzan leaves Clayton to Jane and leaves...
Episode 61:
Clayton makes excuses...Cabin ransacked...Francois goes for water...Saw
marks of a boat...Switch to pirates...Hear party and close in...
Episode 62:
Tarzan returns to the apes...Takla challenging his kingship...Charges...Tarzan
wins...Clayton finds pirate camp...Returns to cabin...Pirates take Jane
as hostage...Porter fires shots...
Tape 3 -- Track 2 (Episodes
63-69)
Episode 63: Jane drops
to ground so Clayton and rest can shoot...Mutineers run off...Tarzan returns...Finds
mutineers...Kills boar...Gives ape cry...Scares off mutineers...Tarzan
returns to talk to Jane...
Episode 64:
Tarzan and Jane talk...Philander warns about falling in love with society...Tarzan
goes for arrows...Mutineers kidnap Jane from hut...
Episode 65:
Mutineers lead Jane away...Try to force her to tell where treasure is....Tarzan
returning...Morning and party awake...Jane gone...Tarzan comes...Tarzan
leaves to find Jane...
Episode 66:
Question Jane...She bargains with one of the mutineers...Tarzan approaches
but hears mutineer at hut...Tarzan goes to hut and tries to make mutineer
tell where Jane is...Jane at ship...Tarzan swims out to ship...
Episode 67:
Pirates see men running on beach...pretend to take off...Tarzan swimming...Others
try to fix boat on beach...Tracy pounds on wall of Jane’s cabin...shows
how to open port to escape...Tarzan reaches ship and enters port...Pirates
come and he hides behind door and waits...
Episode 68:
Tarzan kills pirate...Tracy talks...Thanks Tarzan from other room...Another
man comes for her...Party work to repair boat on beach...Tarzan kills other
man...Can’t free Tracy...Go to deck...Tries to wreck ship on rocks...
Episode 69:
Ship goes wild...Find helmsman dead...Tarzan says storm coming...Snipes
says must get Tarzan...Men won’t do it -- afraid to go alone...Party prepare
to go to ship in boat...Tarzan and Jane go below while mutineers fight...Try
to free Tracy...Free him and go to his cabin for guns...Mutineers come...Go
to wheel house....Pirates spot them with light...charge...Plan to smash
wheel house and drop weight...
Tape 3 -- Track 3 (Episodes
70-76)
Episode 70: Survive
but Tracy’s left arm broken...Tarzan and Jane jump into water...Tracy covers
retreat...Tarzan and Jane swim...Tarzan kills shark...Tarzan and Jane reach
shore...Boat party reach reef...Tarzan takes Jane to platform...Jane afraid...Party
in trouble on reef...Danger of being washed away...Big Breaker!...
Episode 71:
Morning...Tarzan and Jane go for fruit...Tarzan says Clayton still hates
him...Party stranded on rock...King signaled Snipes...Lower boat and come
after party...Trouble at ape tribe...Tarzan takes Jane...
Episode 72:
Sheeta attacking baby ape...Tribe around...Tarzan attacks...Plan to have
Dum but first go to hut....Pirates reach rock and force party to dig for
treasure...Tarzan and Jane reach hut...Empty...Return to jungle...Dum Dum...
Episode 73:
Jane watches Dum Dum ...Ends...Party digging...Make deal with King...Jane
is sad that Tarzan is so wild...Distant rumble...Elephant stampede toward
them...
Episode 74:
Stampede passes by destroying platform...Go to sleep in tree crotch...Crew
makes Snipes let party stop digging...D’Arnot pretends he knows where treasure
is...Jane can’t sleep on branch...Asks Tarzan to come to America...Tarzan
accuses her of loving Clayton...She wishes he was gone...He goes...Sits
on a branch overhead...Goes to sleep on his shoulder...D’Arnot calls King...Pirates
return...Clayton warns...Pirates shoot....D’Arnot gets away to jungle...
Episode 75:
Pirates Tie up Clayton...Question King...Shoots...Morning...Tarzan and
Jane reach hut...D’Arnot reaches hut and gets gun...King shot in arm...Confesses...They
send him to jungle to find D’Arnot...Tarzan meets King and two men...ropes
front man...Throws him down dead...King shoots at Tarzan...
Episode 76:
Tarzan climbs...King misses...Moves...Ropes Mike...Throws him down...King
runs off...Tarzan jumps on other...Knocks rifle as he shoots...Ape cry...Goes
back to Jane and D’Arnot...Go to camp...Party still digging...Snipes goes
to strike Clayton...Men rebel...King returns and tells of Tarzan...Snipes
tries to send men after Tarzan...Rebel and fight...Party runs...Pirates
pursue...Tarzan and Jane hear...Jane shoots to save father...Tarzan shoots
arrows...
Tape 3 -- Track 4 (Episode
77)
Episode 77: Pirates put boat
over from Arrow...Party get into boat to go down coast and upstream to
hut...Pirates fight each other...Tarzan and Jane and D’Arnot go to hut
on foot...Snipes won...Send for men on Arrow...To go to hut to get D’Arnot...Tarzan
and Jane and D’Arnot reach hut...No one there yet...Party aground in boat
on stream...Meet cannibals...
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