Moon Over Africa
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Radio
Tarzan
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1932–1953
472 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1932
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1932–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 472
- Genre
- adventure
production of Tarzan contains 75 episodes that were aired in 1951 and 1952. From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group.
1951 · 31935 · 21933 · 11932 · 6
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 5 of 45Rough but complete · 40 of 45
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_Tarzan_Singles_TLotJ
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 22 years on the air, with 18 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1932, in original transmission order.
- 1. Episode 1 · 12 Sep 1932
- 2. Episode 16 · 3 Oct 1932
- 3. Episode 18 · 21 Oct 1932
- 01
Episode 1
12 Sep 1932 · 10 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Episode 16
3 Oct 1932 · 9 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Episode 18
21 Oct 1932 · 10 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 October 1932. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Episode 45
11 Nov 1932 · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Episode 59
1 Dec 1932 · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Episode 44
21 Dec 1932 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 December 1932. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Episode 63
3 Feb 1933 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 3 February 1933. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Diamond Of Asher Stampeding Thunder
11 May 1935 · 12 min
Broadcast 11 May 1935. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
11 May 1935
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 May 1935.
Flash Gordon
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) in 1932–1953
Other series the network carried while Tarzan 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 Tarzan
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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