Tarzan and the Man from Another World: Tarzan (January 3, 1952)

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“Tarzan and the Man from Another World” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 3, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Tarzan travels through the Congo near the rubber plantations of Van Kruger after strange fireballs streak across the sky and frighten the natives. He rescues Joan Van Kruger from a crowd of panicked animals and escorts her home, where she tells him she has been kept against her will by her father. Van Kruger welcomes Tarzan, but the plantation's treatment of its workers is troubling. A being in a metal suit then lands in the clearing, claiming to come from the planet Uranus, and Tarzan goes to confront him.

The Congo, near the Lamfumney rubber plantations and the government observatory at Kilama

Characters: Tarzan, Joan Van Kruger, Jakob Van Kruger, Mabukhi, Dr. Forbes, Jack

Listen for: The arrival of the fireballs and the strange visitor in the metal suit, and Tarzan's exchanges with Joan and Van Kruger

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.