What happens
Clyde Beatty, a circus wild animal trainer, keeps a black leopard named Nubia at his winter quarters in Florida. One night the leopard escapes and kills livestock, and Beatty sets out with his wife Harriet and the sheriff to recapture her. Beatty pursues the cat into the Everglades, where he learns that two Seminole Indian lads have gone after what they believe is a bobcat. Tracking the animal through the marsh, he discovers the danger the young hunters face and tries to reach them in time.
Winter quarters of a circus in Florida and the surrounding Everglades, c. mid-century
Characters: Clyde Beatty, Harriet, Nubia, Buck, O'Kala, Wakula, the sheriff
Listen for: Beatty explaining that leopards often stalk their prey, and his tense recapture of the black leopard with a fishing net in the gorge
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.