Rescuers Seek Safety In Cave: Tarzan (November 18, 1932)

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“Rescuers Seek Safety In Cave” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 18, 1932. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Tarzan and Jane are at their cabin in the jungle when Jane is attacked by a crocodile in the river, and Tarzan kills it to save her. Later they learn that drums in the native village signal danger for Professor Porter and his party. Jane is anxious about her father, and the two go to watch the village from a tree. Meanwhile, Porter's group, sensing a trap, enters the cave to search for James. The series is Tarzan, first broadcast on 18 November 1932.

The African jungle, a river with crocodiles, a native village, and a cave behind a waterfall

Characters: Tarzan, Jane, Professor Porter, Bormesh, Clayton, Donald, James

Listen for: The crocodile attack in the river and Tarzan's fight with it, then Jane's worry about her father in the village

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.