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.
Jungle Jim was the archetypal Great White Hunter that one thinks of at the mention of “lost worlds”, which filled the pages of pulp magazines, and later, movie serials. He was everything one could ask for in a pulp protagonist – handsome, brave, resourceful.
Intended for a general audience, and not just children, this series’ storylines are richer than the usual juvenile radio fare. The show had a large adult audience as well as children due to its maturity. Each exciting fifteen minutes episode opened with a section of the William Tell overture.
This volume contains forty fifteen-minute episodes from 1939 and 1940, including the conclusion of “Stacey” (#201-213) and the beginning of “In Quest of Peter Stone” (#214-240), for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
#201 Stacey
Saturday, September 2, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#202 Stacey
Saturday, September 9, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#203 Stacey
Saturday, September 16, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#204 Stacey
Saturday, September 23, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#205 Stacey
Saturday, September 30, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#206 Stacey
Saturday, October 7, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#207 Stacey
Saturday, October 14, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#208 Stacey
Saturday, October 21, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#209 Stacey
Saturday, October 28, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#210 Stacey
Saturday, November 4, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#211 Stacey
Saturday, November 11, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#212 Stacey
Saturday, November 18, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#213 Stacey
Saturday, November 25, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#214 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, December 2, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#215 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, December 9, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#216 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, December 16, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#217 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, December 23, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#218 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, December 30, 1939 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#219 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, January 6, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#220 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, January 13, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#221 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, January 20, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#222 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, January 27, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#223 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, February 3, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#224 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, February 10, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#225 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, February 17, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#226 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, February 24, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#227 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, March 2, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#228 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, March 9, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#229 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, March 16, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#230 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, March 23, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#231 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, March 30, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#232 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, April 6, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#233 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, April 13, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#234 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, April 20, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#235 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, April 27, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#236 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, May 4, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#237 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, May 11, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#238 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, May 18, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#239 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, May 25, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
#240 In Quest of Peter Stone
Saturday, June 1, 1940 − 15:00 - Syndicated, sponsored by Comic Weekly/Hearst Newspapers
