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Ann of the Airlanes
24 episodes · 1935 · Syndicated · Juvenile
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Ann of the Airlanes was a syndicated adventure serial of the mid-1930s and one of the earliest with a heroine in the lead. Ann Burton, who hopes to be an airline hostess, works with the Secret Service alongside the pilot Jack Baker. Bob Burtt created it, and it ran 65 episodes over 13 weeks. The Radio Days Museum has chapters 7 through 30.
Sources: Ann of the Airlanes, Wikipedia
Episodes
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1935
- Chapter 7
Ann Burton and pilot Jack Baker fly a stolen speed plane to a desert island off Florida. Jack is suspected of the theft, and Aunt Hattie may be aboard. - Chapter 8
Aunt Hattie is discovered aboard the stolen air transport. - Chapter 9
Jack's brother, Kay Thompson and Bobby learn Jack and Ann are on a desert island with a hurricane approaching. The secret radio station has disappeared. - Chapter 10
A man called Doc leads a diamond smuggling ring as the hurricane nears. Aunt Hattie spots a fire, giving Jack a chance to send a radio message. - Chapter 11
Bobby, Pete and Kay land on the small island just before the hurricane. - Chapter 12
The hurricane hits as all three planes take off, and a mysterious plane flies low over the island. - Chapter 13
Jack seems to be working for the Secret Service, and Art Morrison may be more than a radio inspector. - Chapter 14
Jack needs the secret radio frequency, but a storm drowns out Ann's words. He flies into the storm toward a secret runway in the Everglades. - Chapter 15
Pete and Ann find the secret runway in the Everglades, and Ann parachutes out over a hidden hangar. - Chapter 16
After crossing the swamps, Ann meets Jack and gives him the secret frequency before he leaves for Africa. - Chapter 17
Pete takes off, and an armed man threatens Art Morrison and Aunt Hattie. - Chapter 18
Ann is lost in the Everglades, and a stranger with a speedboat turns out to be Zeb, the prospector who first found the diamonds in South Africa. - Chapter 19
Zeb prepares to make his first parachute jump to rescue Ann at the secret air strip. - Chapter 20
Jack wonders who was in the parachute, and a pencil marked Ann is found in the smugglers' plane. - Chapter 21
Ann hides in the cargo compartment of the smugglers' transport, Art decodes a message giving their destination, and Aunt Hattie finds a note from Ann. - Chapter 22
Pete suspects Doctor Tyler leads the smugglers, and Bobby searches a book of magic to learn how the radio room vanishes. - Chapter 23
Zeb observes a foreigner who walks with a limp, who says he must send many messages and talk to Doc tonight. - Chapter 24
Bobby, Pete, Art and Zeb overhear a message from the secret transmitter, while smoke rises from the baggage compartment where Ann hides. - Chapter 25
Ann is discovered on the island of Trinidad, and the smugglers' transport gets caught in a tar-like substance and starts to sink. - Chapter 26
The smugglers free their plane from the Lake of Asphalt and take off with Ann and Jack as prisoners. Vic seems afraid of Zeb Abercrombie. - Chapter 27
A piece of paper is found on a car's wheel, and Doc knew all along they were at the sanitarium. - Chapter 28
Jack tries an emergency landing near a castaway on a deserted island, but asphalt on the wheels keeps the landing gear from coming down. The identity of the smuggling ring's head is in question. - Chapter 29
Jack lands the plane safely and the castaway is rescued, but he needs water and there is none. - Chapter 30
Carp in the ocean mean something special to Jack, and he has Joe fetch a bucket of ocean water for the castaway to drink.