Jungle Jim 03
Jungle Jim
Old Time Radio Programs. Presenting the Adventures of Jungle Jim, True Friend to all good men, relentless enemy of all bad ones no matter what their race or creed may be. Episodes 201 - 300 09-02-1939 thru 07-26-1941
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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Mostly Fun Serial
Alonzo Church
By the time this third set of 100 ventures started, the writers have gotten a good sense of what works and what does not work when translating the comic strip to the radio. When the comic strip was putting out good work, the radio shows are excellent, and bring to mind an especially good Republic serial. There is, however, a run of about twenty shows where the direction of the show clearly changes and story arcs are set up and then abruptly terminated, and nothing really happens. The somewhat depressing part of these episodes for someone who has listened to the frst two discs is that there is not nearly enough Shanghai Lil, and she really does not get a chance to show her Eve Arden style sass, until the very final episodes of this disk. Instead, a new girl pal, Kitty St. John, is added as soon as Jim and Lil finish rescuing the voodoo addled girl who was featured in an unnerving series of shows that ended the second disc. Kitty is introduced as a romantic idiot who is after Jim for no particular reason who gets captured by a power mad thug who is inciting a native riot on an obscure southsea island. A random set of episodes results in Kitty and Jim being shipwrecked together for a few episodes, while Lil and Kolu, Jim's trusty native companion, mourn his presumed death. Finally, after a series of rather improbable events, Jim finds himself working against a master saboteur/suicide bomber in Panama, with Kolu and Kitty. Lil, in the meantime, has been sent off to visit her parents at the farm somewhere in the Midwest. The Panama episodes are as good as this kind of drama gets, with a scary villain, some original moments (we like how Kitty handles delivering a vital message from Jim to the Naval Intelligence), and some fairly intlligent thinking by both Jim and the villain of the piece. Once that episode ends, the action quickly moves to a Caribbean island where a foreign power is storing its submarines, and a mysterious rich man is building a castle. I would never endorse sharing these dramas with children, because of the implicit racism. However. Kolu, Jim's number one "boy" (ouch) is smarter than almost everyone, except Jim himself. I really look forward to the fourth set -- particularly as the Puerto Rico plot is setting up a confrontation between Shanghai Lil (always the jealous type) and Kitty to go with the usual battle between the expert man hunter and beastly mefglomaniac saboteurs.
Jungle Fever
jastbrown
This is a surprisingly well done serial.. nasty villians.. high adventure.. stalwart hero.. and one of the most cunning, least likely to need liberating, wise-crackingest heroines in broadcast history.. my all time favorite, Shanghai Lil.
Great Radio serial
miriamhopkins
Adults and children alike will benefit in listening to these wholesome adventures where evil is clearly distinguished from good which hasn't been the case for years.
Jungle Jim
Lum Edwards
This is one of my new favorite shows. I have only recently begun to listen to these and they are great. Lum