Trophy Room: Tarzan (August 16, 1951)

“Trophy Room” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 16, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tarzan rescues Althea Baldwin when a lioness attacks her in the jungle. She invites him to her husband's remote jungle house, where Byron Baldwin keeps the mute servant Muhani and a trophy room full of guns and mounted animal heads. Althea describes a marriage she wants to escape, and Tarzan agrees to help her. When Byron returns, he accuses Tarzan of trespassing on his affections, and the tension between the two men grows sharp. Tarzan and Byron prepare for a hunt over the Baldwin property, with life as the prize.

A remote jungle estate in Africa, including a large house built in the jungle, a trophy room, and the surrounding hunting grounds.

Characters: Tarzan, Althea Baldwin, Byron Baldwin, Muhani

Listen for: Listen for Althea's account of her marriage and Byron's contrasting version of events, and for the terms Tarzan and Byron set for their hunt.

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.