Jungle Jim! The very name conjures up images of exotic locales, wild beasts and hostile natives. Jungle Jim braved these with the aid of his faithful Hindu companion Kolu as he traveled the wilds of southeastern Asia in search of adventure.
Jungle Jim is best remembered as the star of sixteen Columbia B-movies starring Johnny Weissmuller, fresh off his twelve-year stint as Tarzan, beginning in 1948. But Jungle Jim's history goes back more than a decade.
Produced by Jay Clark and often written by Gene Stafford, The Adventures of Jungle Jim was on the air weekly from 1935 to 1954. A combination of jungle danger and colonial politics, the show brought listeners tales of slave traders, pirates, foreign spies, wild beasts, poachers, hostile tribes, and, during World War II, the Japanese, as Jim often served as an Allied operative. Armed with his trusty .45 automatic, the adventurer searched for lost treasure and investigated such mysteries as ghosts and unknown islands. Throughout it all, Jungle Jim maintained a cool head.
Beginning with Tarzan, the pulp era was full of jungle characters. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones, in that he wasn't a barely-literate loincloth-clad tree-dwelling wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a hunter – a "great white hunter" in the mold of heroes of earlier popular fiction such as H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Lord John Roxton from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
In 1938, Gerald Mohr, who had a long career in radio, film and television, took over the role of Jungle Jim. In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, Mohr played over 500 parts on the radio, notably Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. Series regulars included Jungle Jim's faithful aide, Kolu, a powerful Hindu giant (played by Juano Hernandez), and Lille DeVrille, who served as Jim's femme fatale (played first by Vicki Vola and later, Franc Hale).
This volume contains forty fifteen-minute episodes from 1938, including the conclusion of "The Afghan Hills" (#121-124), the complete "The Ghost of the Java Sea" (#125-145), "Tiger Hunt" (#146-149) and the beginning of "Karnak the Killer" (#150-160), for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
#121 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, February 19, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#122 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, February 26, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#123 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, March 5, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#124 The Afghan Hills
Saturday, March 12, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#125 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, March 19, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#126 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, March 26, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#127 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, April 2, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#128 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, April 9, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#129 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, April 16, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#130 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, April 23, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#131 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, April 30, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#132 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, May 7, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#133 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, May 14, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#134 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, May 21, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#135 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, May 28, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#136 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, June 4, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#137 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, June 11, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#138 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, June 18, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#139 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, June 25, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#140 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, July 2, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#141 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, July 9, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#142 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, July 16, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#143 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, July 23, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#144 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, July 30, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#145 The Ghost of the Java Sea
Saturday, August 6, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#146 Tiger Hunt
Saturday, August 13, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#147 Tiger Hunt
Saturday, August 20, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#148 Tiger Hunt
Saturday, August 27, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#149 Tiger Hunt
Saturday, September 3, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#150 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, September 10, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#151 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, September 17, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#152 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, September 24, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#153 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, October 1, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#154 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, October 8, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#155 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, October 15, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#156 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, October 22, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#157 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, October 29, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#158 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, November 5, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#159 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, November 12, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#160 Karnak the Killer
Saturday, November 19, 1938 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
