Voodoo Medicine: Tarzan (May 15, 1935)

“Voodoo Medicine” is an episode of Tarzan, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 15, 1935. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Tarzan leads a jungle expedition searching for Brian Gregory, accompanied by Brian's father, his sister Helen, the mysterious Eurasian girl Margaret, and the hunters Dano and Lawson. In a camp on the bank of a tributary of the Ubangi River, Lawson is attacked by a giant crocodile, and Tarzan kills the beast with his bare hands to save him. Meanwhile, the German Wolf works with a witch doctor to obtain a map to the Forbidden City of Opar, and he schemes to drug the Gregory party while the natives are stirred up against them.

A jungle camp on the bank of a tributary of the Ubangi River in central Africa

Characters: Tarzan, Dano, Lawson, Larsen, Brian Gregory, Helen Gregory, Margaret, Wolf

Listen for: Tarzan's fight with the crocodile, and Wolf's plan to drug Mr. Gregory and take the map

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.