Return Of The Ship: Tarzan (November 8, 1932)

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“Return Of The Ship” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 8, 1932. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Tarzan and Jane Porter are stranded in the African jungle, where Jane's father, Professor Porter, and his party have been taken by a witch doctor to a temple cave. The professor's party believe they are posing as medicine men and hope to escape to join a cruiser. Meanwhile Tarzan, having run low on arrows, carries Jane to a cannibal village, where they find it deserted. Jane searches the huts and discovers the arms stored there. The series is Tarzan, based on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and this episode first aired on November 8, 1932.

The African jungle, including a cannibal village and a witch doctor's temple cave.

Characters: Tarzan, Jane Porter, Professor Porter, Clayton, Monsieur Rokoff, Gauru, the witch doctor

Listen for: Jane's search of the deserted village and the struggle in the last hut.

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.