Fires Dynamite: Tarzan (November 25, 1932)

“Fires Dynamite” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 25, 1932. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Professor Potter and his party have escaped a cannibal village, where they had gone searching for the professor's daughter Jane, but they are now trapped inside a sacred temple cave after the villagers believed they had broken a tribal taboo. Tarzan and Jane discuss how to blast a way out, weighing the dynamite's power against the risk of falling rock. The party debates the plan, and Tarzan carries the dynamite and cap through the passage, with the others following. This is the Tarzan series, based on the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with James Pierce as Tarzan and Ann Burroughs as Jane Porter. The episode aired on November 25, 1932.

A sacred temple cave in an African jungle village, where the professor's party is trapped after escaping the cannibal village.

Characters: Tarzan, Jane Porter, Professor Porter, James, Gomongani Witch Doctor

Listen for: Tarzan and Jane arguing over the safest way to set off the dynamite inside the cave.

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.