Jimmy's Plan to Turn the Plane: Black Flame of the Amazon

Black Flame of the Amazon, old-time radio on Stupid Potato

“Jimmy's Plan to Turn the Plane” is an episode of Black Flame of the Amazon, the old-time radio show that aired in 1938. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

Free, no sign-up. Or subscribe to Black Flame of the Amazon in any podcast app.

What happens

Mr. Noise, a famous explorer, is pushing upcountry into the jungles of Brazil when he meets two young children searching for their father, a scientist. The scientist has been taken prisoner in a remote Indian village at the instigation of Butch Grogan, a renegade white man who has stolen a treasure map and a coded paper. Grogan has also kidnapped the little girl, Jean Brady. Mr. Noise rescues her with an amphibian plane, but as the plane tries to take off from a narrow river, Indian warriors close in, and a canoe carrying Indian children drifts toward the propellers. Mr. Noise and his companions debate how to escape, and a message arrives from Grogan demanding that they surrender. The episode ends with the group ordered ashore, facing Grogan and his Indian followers.

A narrow tributary stream flowing into the Amazon, in the jungle of Brazil

Characters: Mr. Noise, Pat Donovan, Pedro, Jimmy Brady, Jean Brady, Butch Grogan

Listen for: Pat Donovan's plan to disable the amphibian plane, and Grogan's surrender demand

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.