Delivers The Sailor: Tarzan (September 28, 1932)

“Delivers The Sailor” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 28, 1932. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tarzan of the Apes confronts a group of pirate mutineers in the jungle. After a sailor is seized from a tree and a shot is fired at the mutineers' leader, Tarzan takes a treasure chest that the men have buried and hides it in a new place. At dawn he returns to his hut, where the professor Archimedes Porter, Fulanda and Clayton are discussing their escape from the mutineers over breakfast. Porter and Fulanda then wander deeper into the jungle, unaware of the watching eyes around them. This episode of the Tarzan series, first aired on 1932-09-28, is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.

A jungle on the west coast of Africa, near a hut and a coastal camp, with a hidden treasure chest buried among the trees.

Characters: Tarzan, Archimedes Porter, Fulanda, Clayton, James, Jane, King, Snakes

Listen for: Tarzan's movements through the trees and the burial of the treasure chest, followed by the breakfast conversation between Porter, Fulanda and Clayton.

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.