Comics on Television in the 1950s

Jungle Jim
NBC, Debut 7/21/56
25 Episodes

Character Name

ACTOR

Jungle Jim

Johnny Weismueller

Skipper

Martin Huston

Kaseem

Norman Fredric


THE AVENGER
Jungle Jim is employed by three trappers to lead them on a safari to trap black panthers. Joel Ashley, Robert Bice, George Cisar, Mauritz Hugo.

BLOOD MONEY
Jungle Jim agrees to act as a guide for a wealthy man and his spoiled daughter in an effort to get the man to donate money for a native school.

CODE OF THE JUNGLE
Tamba, jealous of Skipper’s new pet, a dog named Trader, tries to loose him in the jungle. The dog finds his way to the camp of a former guide.

THE DEADLY IDOL
A new man incites the natives when he orders them to give up their idol.

THE EYES OF MANOBO
Believing that the eyes of their tribal idol, that are in fact valuable jewels, have been stolen, a primitive tribe is about to wage war against those they think are guilty.

A FORTUNE IN IVORY
Skipper and his tutor find themselves in trouble when they stumble on a thief’s ivory treasure.

GIFT OF EVIL
 
In order to get a watch for Christmas, Skipper guides a medicine man to the native village.

GOLDEN PARASOL
Two escaped convicts steal the king’s parasol. Otumfo accuses Tamba the chimp of the theft, and threatens to kill the animal if the parasol isn’t returned before sundown. Paul Thompson

JUNGLE JUSTICE
Jim tries to help Kaseem’s friend, Niran, who is accused of stealing money collected for charity.

THE KING’S GHOST
Jungle Jim and his son accompany an explorer on an expedition to the jungles of New Guinea.

THE LAGOON OF DEATH
Jim finds himself the kidnap victim of ruthless men bent on getting the priceless black pearls of the cannibals.

LAND OF TERROR
Jim finds a lost world of prehistoric animals when he goes in search of a missing botanist.

THE LEOPARD’S PAW
 
A young Bantu native must pass his warrior's test by killing a leopard.

MAN KILLER
A well-to-do tenderfoot violates the law of the jungle by wounding a lion and allowing it to escape. Further trouble brews as the beast rages through the jungle. Jim tries to capture the maddened beast.

THE POWER OF DARKNESS
Jungle Jim, Skipper, Kaseem and Tamba join Prof. Erskine’s Himalayan expedition to observe the sun’s eclipse. In the mountains they follow a strange figure into a tunnel and suddenly find themselves prisoners in a Tibetan kingdom ruled by a white man. Jim uses the sun’s eclipse to convince the natives he’s a god.

PRECIOUS CARGO
Jim finds a baby afloat in the river near his camp. He tries to locate the parents.

RETURN OF THE TAUREGS
Jungle Jim is on the trail of a slave trader who kidnapped the native guide of a butterfly expert, after Jim finds him lying unconscious in the jungle.
Byron Foulger, Duane Thorsen.

SACRED SCARAB
Posing as members of an international police force, two gangsters persuade Jungle Jim to guide them to the place where a plane carrying a priceless sacred scarab has disappeared. Wes Hudman

SAFARI INTO DANGER
Jungle Jim is hired to help capture animals for a circus. Trouble ensues when his cowardly employers incur the wrath of a pygmy tribe.

THE SILVER LOCKET
After caging a lion, Jungle Jim discovers the animal is wearing a locket bearing a famous crest. A woman identifies the locket and informs Jim that her baby daughter was wearing it when she disappeared into the jungle many years ago.

STRIPED FURY
Jim, Skipper and their friends travel to India to help rid the natives of a menacing tiger. They meet with the resistance of a terrorist band.

TREASURE OF THE AMAZON
Jim finds danger awaiting him when he and skipper accompany two archeologists <sic> to the lost Inca city of Baroa.

VOODOO DRUMS
Jungle Jim is surprised to hear the war drums of the Makota tribe. There chief has promised to maintain the peace.

WHITE MAGIC
A young native whom Jim sent to medical school returns to his tribe as a doctor. The tribe’s witch doctor arouses the village chief against the young doctor.

WILD MAN OF THE JUNGLE
A friend of Jim’s asks him to help put an end to the “wild-man” threat that has been hampering work on his rubber plantation.


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