The Escape: Tarzan (December 26, 1932)

“The Escape” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 26, 1932. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tarzan and Jane set out through the jungle to rescue Professor Parry and the others held by mutineers after the pirate ship's crew has seized them. Tarzan takes the fight to the mutineers single-handedly, dropping one from the trees and tangling another in the branches, while Jane and Donald wait nearby. Back at the mutineers' camp, the prisoners are forced to dig, and Snipes grows increasingly violent and desperate, insisting on finding the treasure and turning on his own men. Tarzan and Jane then move toward the camp together, Jane taking a rifle to cover the escape. This is an episode of the Tarzan radio series, first broadcast on 26 December 1932.

The African jungle and a mutineers' camp on the coast.

Characters: Tarzan, Jane, Professor Parry, Donald, Snipes, King, Francois, Clayton

Listen for: Tarzan's jungle call and the sudden attacks from the trees as the mutineers are picked off one by one.

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.