Jungle adventure serial · Syndicated (1932-1934) / CBS-Commodore (1951-1953)
Tarzan
September 12, 1932 – June 27, 1953 · 535 broadcasts
Tarzan swung onto American radio in 1932 and stayed for two decades across three distinct productions. The original "Tarzan of the Apes" (1932-34) was a landmark: a 15-minute daily cliffhanger cut to disc and shipped to stations nationwide -- one of the first great syndicated serials -- starring silent-film Tarzan James Pierce opposite Joan Burroughs, creator Edgar Rice Burroughs's own daughter, as Jane, with Burroughs revising the scripts himself. Its ensemble was a who's-who of early radio (Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Hanley Stafford, Jeanette Nolan), and a Signal Oil youth club drew 125,000 members in its first year. Carlton KaDell took over the title role for the mid-1930s jungle serials "Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher" and "Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr," lost-world adventures of dinosaurs, talking gorillas and forbidden cities. After a long silence the ape-man returned in "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" (1951-53), a half-hour Commodore Productions revival carried on CBS with Lamont Johnson -- later a two-time Emmy-winning director -- as Tarzan. This catalog folds all three productions into one spine; per-episode synopses are shown where a free source documents the plot.
Collection status:
260 of 535 held (49% complete)
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Episode Spine
Grouped by year. Jump to the full list below, or open a season on its own page.
- 1932 (80 episodes)
- 1933 (176 episodes)
- 1934 (69 episodes)
- 1935 (39 episodes)
- 1951 (52 episodes)
- 1952 (70 episodes)
- 1953 (49 episodes)
1932
Marooned in the jungle, Lord and Lady Greystoke are attacked by a maddened ape on their infant son's first birthday -- the night that will make the boy Tarzan.
The Greystokes fall to a raiding ape band, and the grieving she-ape Kala carries the orphaned boy off to raise as her own.
Twenty years on, the grown ape-man saves a lion cub from the serpent Histah -- our first look at what Kala's foundling has become.
Mutiny erupts aboard Captain Tracy's ship as Tarzan, battling Histah again, is saved by his elephant friend Tantor -- and the Tarzan yell rings out for the first time.
Jane flings the treasure map out a porthole in a poison bottle as the mutineers close in; ashore, Tarzan moves to rescue the captive captain.
Watching the landing party, Tarzan is knifed in the shoulder wrestling a mutineer -- and kills the man before he can strike again.
Tarzan snaps the neck of the lion Numa to save Captain Tracy and speaks his first words to another human, while the mutineer Yount plots to drown Jane.
Trapped in the sinking ship, the Porters try to blast their way free as Captain Tracy is caught in a pit of quicksand.
Tarzan and his apes haul Captain Tracy from the quicksand as Jane and her father slip away from the mutineers by boat.
After seeing off a hostile ape, Tarzan returns to the secret hut of his dead parents.
Jane's party stumbles on Tarzan's hut while he watches unseen, transfixed by the first white woman he has ever laid eyes on.
Tarzan shields Jane's party from the mutineers, who bury their treasure and scatter as a French ship nears the coast.
Tarzan digs up the buried treasure and hides it himself, just as Professor Porter and Philander wander off into the jungle.
Tarzan saves Porter and Philander from the lion Numa, and the Greystoke diary surfaces -- but where is the diamond locket?
A rifle shot rings out as Tarzan examines Clayton's gun, and the lioness Sabor menaces Jane inside the cabin.
Tarzan kills Sabor to save Jane, then slips through the window to take the letter she writes before falling asleep.
Reading Jane's letter, Tarzan feels a strange kinship -- until the distant drums summon him to the apes' victory dance, the Dum-Dum.
Tarzan and Tantor take a dawn swim, and the ape-man again brings meat to Jane's camp after killing the boar that threatens Clayton.
Tarzan sits in judgment over his tribe as the rogue bull ape Terkoz seizes Jane and carries her into the trees.
Tarzan battles the giant Terkoz to free Jane, and the two share their first halting words to each other.
Left in a tree while Tarzan hunts, Jane fails to return by morning, and a distraught Professor Porter presses to search as a French warship appears offshore.
French navy Lieutenant D'Arnot comes ashore to help find Jane, and Tarzan warns her of nearby cannibals -- just as the jungle bursts into flame.
Tarzan fights the fire threatening his hut while D'Arnot and Porter, finding the dead ape, fear Jane has fallen to cannibals -- and Clayton fires at Tarzan.
D'Arnot takes command of the search as Jane teaches Tarzan more English; back at the hut, the ape-man looses an arrow toward Clayton.
Clayton decides the wild man is a cannibal, while Jane spots a rescue ship standing off the coast.
Tarzan brings Jane back to his hut, where she fears her father and the others have sailed off and left her alone with 'White Skin.'
Tarzan and Jane watch a lion, a leopard and a boar tear into one another as Philander goes missing, his cries echoing through the jungle.
As the frenzied natives close on D'Arnot's party, Tarzan introduces Jane to the monkey Manu while the drums draw ever nearer.
The searchers find a witch doctor wearing Philander's helmet; Tarzan ropes the savage, frees the captive, and returns to Jane.
Called away to settle an ape quarrel, Tarzan leaves just as the search party reaches the cannibal village.
Following voices into the jungle, Jane is found by Tarzan as the stockade gates shut behind Porter and Philander and the drums begin.
Jane teaches Tarzan that 'man does not kill man,' and the native he spares runs to warn his people of the white devil and his woman.
The searchers rejoice that Jane lives -- until the sacrifice ceremony begins and savage warriors menace her in Tarzan's cabin.
Jane is thrown into a pit and Tarzan calls Tantor to free her, as the captives plot escape from the cannibal kraal with a friendly native's help.
The escape attempt fails, and D'Arnot and the others are bound to the sacrifice stakes.
As Jane struggles to teach Tarzan about his parents, the captives make another bid to break free of the cannibals.
Jane finally persuades Tarzan to search for her father; a dynamite blast convinces the cannibals their prisoners work magic -- then a leopard attacks.
Tarzan kills the leopard to save Jane, who begs for the gun in the hut, as the captives face a cup of poison to prove their powers.
The captives awe the cannibals with a rocket and Tarzan sets his apes to guard Jane -- just as Professor Porter drinks the poison.
James Pierce and Joan Burroughs get their first on-air credit as the captives call the witch doctor's bluff and Histah attacks Jane.
Jane shoots the serpent Histah dead and, for one night, peace settles over the jungle.
Bound for the cannibal village to fetch arrows, Tarzan and a determined Jane press on -- until a black arm drags her into a hut.
Taken prisoner by the cannibals, Tarzan breaks free and kills a captor while the Porters use their learning to find a way out of the cave.
Tarzan and Jane flee a burning hut and take cover in the witch doctor's own dwelling as the cannibals tighten their circle.
With Jane marked for sacrifice, D'Arnot lays a rescue plan while Tarzan breaks loose and attacks the witch doctor to free her.
Tarzan leads Jane deeper into the jungle ahead of a coming storm as Porter and D'Arnot scheme to pass themselves off as rainmakers.
While Porter and D'Arnot bluster to convince the cannibals they command the rain, Jane is shown the Greystoke papers and the precious locket.
Tarzan puzzles over the meaning of love during a river swim with Jane as the crocodile Gimla slides after her.
Tarzan saves Jane from the crocodile and warns the others against sheltering in the sacred cave -- as Clayton fires at him and misses again.
Tarzan and Jane plan to free her father from the sacred cave as Clayton's challenge to D'Arnot's command costs five French sailors their lives.
Trapped in the cave, Tarzan and Jane fight off the cannibals -- Jane shooting one about to spear him -- while the witch doctor slips away.
Francois calls the trapped party toward an exit as Tarzan lies in wait for the chief and, at last, tells Jane he loves her.
Jane sets a dynamite charge to blow open the cavern -- and it does.
The blast opens an escape hole, and the party races to reach the surface before the cannibals descend.
The closing figures prove to be sailors, not cannibals; the party makes a stand as Clayton claims to have killed the witch doctor and a mass attack begins.
The attackers are driven off, but fever grips the party as Tarzan hurls the witch doctor's body at the natives and covers the retreat.
Nearing the hut at last, Clayton's hatred boils over -- he shoots at Tarzan, they fight, and Jane leaves the ape-man to deal with him.
As Clayton makes excuses over the ransacked cabin, boat-marks on the shore reveal the mutineers have come back.
Tarzan turns back a challenge to his ape kingship while the returning pirates seize Jane as a hostage.
Jane drops flat so her friends can fire; the mutineers scatter, and Tarzan returns to talk with her once more.
Warned by Philander against loving above her station, Jane is snatched from the hut by the mutineers the moment Tarzan leaves for arrows.
The mutineers march Jane off to force the treasure's location from her as Tarzan, returning to an empty camp, sets out to find her.
Jane bargains with one of her captors while Tarzan, tracking her to the shore, swims out to the anchored ship.
The pirates feign departure as Captain Tracy shows Jane how to open her cabin port to escape and Tarzan reaches the ship.
Tarzan kills a pirate but cannot free the trapped Tracy, and takes to the deck to try to wreck the ship on the rocks.
With the helmsman dead and a storm rising, Tarzan and Jane go below as the mutineers fight among themselves.
Tracy's arm is broken as the ship strikes; Tarzan and Jane leap into the sea, and he kills a shark before they reach shore.
Stranded on a rock, the boat party signals the pirates for rescue while trouble flares among Tarzan's ape tribe.
Tarzan drives off a leopard attacking a baby ape as the pirates force the marooned party to dig for the treasure.
Jane grieves that Tarzan is so wild -- when a distant rumble becomes a stampede of elephants bearing down on the diggers.
The stampede shatters the pirates' digging platform, and D'Arnot buys time by pretending to know where the treasure lies.
The pirates tie up Clayton and shoot the wounded King, sending him into the jungle to find D'Arnot -- where he runs into Tarzan.
Tarzan outfights King and his men, knocking a rifle aside as it fires, and returns to Jane and D'Arnot while the pirates dig on.
Weeks on, the parties move by boat and on foot toward the hut as the quarreling pirates turn on one another and the cannibals draw near.
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The Diamond of Asher serial opens a wholly new adventure: Tarzan, now acknowledged as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, waits at a French African port with his friend D'Arnot as a fresh quest takes shape.
1935
Lord Greystoke agrees to join the Gregory expedition setting out to find the missing Brian Gregory.
Wolfe, the safari's hired guide, is secretly in the pay of the evil Lol Tass and plots to steal the map to Asher.
The Gregory expedition presses upriver aboard a steamer into the wilds.
A spear-wielding native threatens the Gregory expedition on its first night in the jungle.
The treacherous Wolfe takes a shot at Tarzan in the jungle.
As the lion Numa attacks the mysterious Magra, Tarzan leads the hunt for the lost scientist Brian Gregory alongside Brian's father and sister Helen.
An elephant stampede thunders down on the safari.
Wolfe recruits Magra to help him double-cross the schemer Atan Thome.
A native ceremony endangers the Gregory safari as a crocodile seizes Larson.
Magra foils Wolfe's plot to poison Mr. Gregory.
Wolfe sets out to whip the witch doctor Mbole for poisoning him.
The wind warns Tarzan of a great storm as the Gregory safari rests on a Congo tributary.
The bearers steal the supplies and vanish in the storm, Larson disappears with them -- and the great apes attack.
Larson stumbles back from the jungle just before the natives launch their assault.
Tarzan and his friends are captured, Gregory is killed, and Atan Thome wrests the map from the treacherous Wolfe.
Atan Thome throws in with Tarzan's expedition -- but Helen Gregory has vanished.
Tarzan leaves the safari to search for Helen and finds a hidden causeway carved with hieroglyphics and a message in English.
The safari nears the causeway's end as Tarzan's cry of triumph rings out and Atan Thome agrees to press on toward the forbidden city.
Wolfe shoots Atan Thome.
A glowing death's head drifts through the jungle toward Magra.
Unable to track the glowing death's head, Tarzan finds a cliffside cave guarded by a tyrannosaurus -- which attacks.
Tarzan conquers the prehistoric dinosaur as a pterodactyl wheels overhead.
A winged serpent strikes the Hessiharian chief as he leads Tarzan's party toward Asher and the Father of Diamonds.
The travelers behold the wonders of the fabled city of Asher.
Atan Thome and Wolfe steal off to seize the Father of Diamonds and are set upon by its guardian -- a giant talking gorilla -- as the party is captured.
Atan Thome strikes a bargain with the evil Queen Tira, and Magra is kidnapped.
The talking gorilla kills Wolfe over the diamond; Magra finds Helen, and Helen finds her brother Gregory -- dead.
Atan Thome and Larson watch the glowing death mask approach as they reach for the Father of Diamonds.
Tarzan bargains with Queen Tira to win the diamond for her in exchange for the party's freedom -- and is set upon by two giant white apes.
Queen Tira betrays Tarzan, trapping him in a chamber filling with scalding steam in the heart of forbidden Asher.
Tarzan is reunited with Helen and Magra just before the Hessiharians attack.
Larson is cut down by a sword, and Tarzan escapes a dungeon only to face a saber-toothed tiger.
Captured again, Tarzan is forced into single combat with the king of the giant talking gorillas.
A horde of sword-billed pterodactyls descends on Magra and Helen.
With Magra and Helen set for dawn sacrifice, a giant cobra strikes.
The Father of Diamonds is taken from Queen Tira -- and her guard attacks.
The whole population of Asher rises against Tarzan's party.
In the serial's finale, Magra is shot by Atan Thome and dies in Tarzan's arms confessing her love, as Arkaru offers the survivors aid.
1951
A letter reaches Tarzan from the people of Punya with word that three lives hang in the balance.
In the Unga village the council fire blazes as frenzied dancers turn their fury on the chief.
Tarzan readies the small boat he keeps by his seacoast cabin -- and is drawn into a reckoning with the pirates of Cape Bandeira.
Two days missing, the native boy Torgo is likely dead, but Tarzan will not rest until he learns the youth's fate.
A staid English barrister comes to Africa to lure Tarzan back to England as a cultured American woman arrives with designs of her own.
Near the village of El Bodae, a cluster of drab buildings on a cleared plateau hides the lair of jungle hijackers.
As the long rains mire the Poona tribe's village, a stranger's arrival unsettles the sodden jungle.
Tarzan confronts a brutal old custom still holding sway in Africa, where a girl child is prized only for her bride-price.
A ruthless potentate, his equally cruel son, expert torturers and a pack of man-trained panthers set a trap for Tarzan.
Where the Blue and White Nile meet in a hook of land shaped like an elephant's trunk, a deadly quest for Sudanese gold awaits.
In the snow-capped Ruinzory range at Africa's steaming heart, a drum beats out a menace without a heart.
Years back in his jungle, the mask of civilization slipping from him, a wary Tarzan meets a terror that stalks the night.
Long content to stay in his birthplace jungle, Tarzan is drawn toward the curse of the pharaohs.
In the mystic city of El Habi, where the Orient's mystery meets the jungle's violence, Tarzan enters the City of Sleep.
Manhattan's teeming streets prove strangely akin to Tarzan's tangled jungle as the odds mount against him.
A jungle hurricane batters a great airliner until its engines fail and the mighty ship is torn to wreckage.
Lord Karisbrook's scheme to teach young heirs early responsibility -- a jungle trading account for a boy -- goes dangerously awry.
The brave Karmiki, whom Tarzan has long respected, become a people enslaved by fear as their leaders vanish.
To reach Timbuktu on the Niger, Tarzan must cross a strange little kingdom ruled by a purple-robed potentate.
Once a lush paradise, an island long since sunk beneath the sea and cloaked in ocean weed holds a strange secret.
A jungle-sick army dropping in the heat, a killer stampede and a vengeful mob stand between a desperate message and Fort Shabier.
Tarzan pulls a young Frenchwoman from a lion pit and sends her back to the city, though she fears she cannot escape.
The Bayuko village boils with devil dancers and masked witch doctors warding off demons as a frightened native breaks free.
A youth who spent years in the bush walks into the city of Andumarra with a fortune to celebrate -- and a target on his back.
In the isolated Karmiki village, a mission church stands opposite the temple of the moon god Meomoko as Christmas nears.
1952
Refused permission to reach the elephants' graveyard, a British ivory-thief and his nephew push into the jungle regardless.
All Africa reels when Johannesburg radio breaks the news of a shocking crime and a killer on the loose.
Broke and out of options, Chiver and Diana take young son Peter to Africa for a rubber-plantation job from Uncle Reg.
First the tales, then the signs, and at last a glimpse: a demon terrorizes the village of Rongu.
By day the Belgian Congo village of Bohua is ordinary; by night it belongs to the Simba Hudari.
March 22, 1952
Tarzan and the Siren of Omdu Mara
March 29, 1952
Tarzan and the Manuema
April 5, 1952
Black Gold of Africa
April 12, 1952
Tarzan and Black Ivory
April 19, 1952
Tarzan and the Coward
Tarzan, who loathes the slave-raiders, learns they came by sea in the night to carry a tribe off to Casablanca.
April 26, 1952
The Female of the Specie
May 3, 1952
Tarzan and the Killer
May 8, 1952
Tarzan and the Lypagor
May 10, 1952
Jungle Legacy
May 17, 1952
Jungle Orchids
May 22, 1952
Night Riders of Tomkia
May 24, 1952
Gold Coast Robbery
May 29, 1952
Tarzan and the American Family Robinson
May 31, 1952
Life or Death
June 7, 1952
D Is for Diamonds and Death
June 12, 1952
Tarzan and the Long Journey
June 14, 1952
The Pirates of Cape Bandera
June 21, 1952
Lake of Blood
June 28, 1952
Jungle Heat
July 5, 1952
Jungle Hijackers
July 12, 1952
Tarzan and the Stranger
July 19, 1952
Arab Vengence
July 26, 1952
Tarzan in Captivity
August 2, 1952
Gold of the Sudan
August 9, 1952
Stolen Jewels
August 16, 1952
The Drum Without a Heart
August 23, 1952
Danger Off San Lorenquo
August 30, 1952
Terror at Night
September 6, 1952
Head Hunters of Yambesi
September 13, 1952
Trophy Room
September 20, 1952
Death Has Small Wings
September 27, 1952
Tarzan's Magic Amulet
October 4, 1952
The Book of Araby
October 11, 1952
Cathedral of the Congo
October 18, 1952
The City of Sleep
October 25, 1952
Jungle Odds
November 1, 1952
Small Packages
November 8, 1952
Adventure on the Road to Timbuctu
November 15, 1952
Strange Island
November 22, 1952
African Thanksgiving
November 29, 1952
Hunter's Fury
November 29, 1952
Tarzan and the Siren of Omdu Mara
December 6, 1952
Congo Murder
December 6, 1952
Tarzan and the Manuema
December 13, 1952
The Book of Araby
December 13, 1952
Black Gold of Africa
December 20, 1952
Congo Christmas
December 20, 1952
Tarzan and Black Ivory
December 27, 1952
The Tarzan and the Siren of Omdur Mara
December 27, 1952
Tarzan and the Coward
1953
January 3, 1953
The Hand of Death
January 3, 1953
The Female of the Specie
January 10, 1953
The Man from Another World
January 10, 1953
Tarzan and the Killer
January 17, 1953
The Quicksands of Wadehara
January 17, 1953
Jungle Legacy
January 24, 1953
Trail of Death
January 24, 1953
Life or Death
January 31, 1953
Killer at Large
January 31, 1953
Jungle Heat
February 7, 1953
Paradise Island
February 7, 1953
Killer at Large
February 14, 1953
Demon of Rongu
February 14, 1953
Hooded Death
February 21, 1953
Hooded Death
February 21, 1953
End of the World
February 28, 1953
Tarzan and the Simba Hudari
February 28, 1953
Jungle Smoke
March 7, 1953
Omen of the Emerald
March 7, 1953
Tarzan and the Lypagor
March 14, 1953
Volcano of the Sun
March 14, 1953
Tarzan and the Hot Rod Kid
March 21, 1953
Jungle Orchids
March 21, 1953
Mask of Montiki
March 28, 1953
End of the World
March 28, 1953
Tarzan and the Arena of Death
April 4, 1953
Tarzan and the Arena of Death
April 4, 1953
None So Blind
April 11, 1953
Jungle Smoke
April 11, 1953
Tarzan and the American Family Robinson
April 18, 1953
Evidence Destroyed
April 18, 1953
Tarzan and the Long Journey
April 25, 1953
The Missing Element
April 25, 1953
Tarzan and the Decoy
May 2, 1953
Rays of Death
May 2, 1953
Congo Murder
May 9, 1953
Tarzan and the Lypagor
May 9, 1953
Across a Continent
May 16, 1953
Tarzan and the Hot Rod Kid
May 23, 1953
Mask of Montiki
May 30, 1953
None So Blind
June 13, 1953
Tarzan and the American Family Robinson
June 20, 1953
Tarzan and the Long Journey
July 4, 1953
Tarzan and the Decoy
July 11, 1953
Across a Continent
July 18, 1953
Curse of the Pharaohs
July 25, 1953
Tarzan's Mistake
The Story
Tarzan swung onto American radio in 1932 and stayed for two decades across three distinct productions. The original "Tarzan of the Apes" (1932-34) was a landmark: a 15-minute daily cliffhanger cut to disc and shipped to stations nationwide -- one of the first great syndicated serials -- starring silent-film Tarzan James Pierce opposite Joan Burroughs, creator Edgar Rice Burroughs's own daughter, as Jane, with Burroughs revising the scripts himself. Its ensemble was a who's-who of early radio (Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Hanley Stafford, Jeanette Nolan), and a Signal Oil youth club drew 125,000 members in its first year. Carlton KaDell took over the title role for the mid-1930s jungle serials "Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher" and "Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr," lost-world adventures of dinosaurs, talking gorillas and forbidden cities. After a long silence the ape-man returned in "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" (1951-53), a half-hour Commodore Productions revival carried on CBS with Lamont Johnson -- later a two-time Emmy-winning director -- as Tarzan. This catalog folds all three productions into one spine; per-episode synopses are shown where a free source documents the plot.
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