Fires of Tohr 06: Tarzan

“Fires of Tohr 06” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tarzan and Darnell come upon Major Burton Ashley, Genet Burton, Dr. Wong Tai and Terrence O'Rourke, four Europeans lost and near exhaustion in an uncharted part of the South Central African jungle. Tarzan kills a gigantic yellow-skinned creature in their defense and leads them to a distant riverbank. Downstream, the whole party is overpowered and captured by a band of strange yellow-skinned giants, and Tarzan and Darnell manage to free themselves. The captives are bound at the riverbank as the savages prepare to feed them to crocodiles. Tarzan swings down to rescue O'Rourke, and the group escapes in a dugout canoe down the river, which the yellow men pursue along the banks.

An uncharted section of the jungles of South Central Africa, along a river.

Characters: Tarzan, Darnell, Major Burton Ashley, Genet Burton, Dr. Wong Tai, Terrence O'Rourke

Listen for: The rescue of O'Rourke from the crocodile-infested river and the party's dash down the river in the dugout canoe.

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.