Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1938–1938
- Surviving broadcasts
- 18
- Genre
- adventure
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Black_Flame_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Black_Flame_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1938
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1938, in original transmission order.
- 1. Jimmy and Jean Eat the Map · 1 Jan 1938
- 2. Limey Sent to Guard Butch · 1 Jan 1938
- 3. Battling the Giant Fish · 1 Jan 1938
Jimmy and Jean Eat the Map
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Limey Sent to Guard Butch
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Battling the Giant Fish
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Jimmy's Plan to Turn the Plane
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
An Argument Over Treasure Map
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Fireworks in the Jungle
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Fireworks Scare the Indians
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Country of the Black Flame
1 Jan 1938 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Jan 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Jan 1938.
Originally broadcast in syndication, 1 January 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1938–1938
Other series the network carried while Black Flame of the Amazon was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Black Flame of the Amazon
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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