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The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen
130 episodes · 1936–1946 · Syndicated · Juvenile
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The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen was a fifteen-minute flying serial created by Robert M. Burtt and Wilfred G. Moore, two World War I flying aces from Kansas City. Russell C. Comer syndicated it on transcription discs, and it ran from 1933 to 1937, with Skelly Oil as the sponsor through most of the 1930s and its Jimmie Allen Flying Club sending listeners wings, emblems and letters from Jimmie. Young Jimmie learns to fly with his friend and mentor Speed Robertson, and the two chase smugglers, spies and air pirates from China to Texas. Paramount turned it into the 1936 film The Sky Parade. A new version recorded in 1946 and 1947 reused many of the old stories with a new cast and post-war airplanes.
Sources: The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen, Wikipedia
Episodes
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- Episode 16
Mickey, a gangster's girlfriend, tries to help Jimmie and Speed. - Episode 417
In China, Jimmie, Speed and their friends watch a plane crash, and the pilot turns out to be Flash Lewis. - Episode 418
Jerome Durac, the missing French flier, turns up disguised as a Chinese villager. - Episode 419
A missionary and his family are brought into the pirates' camp, and a mutiny sets off a battle between junks. - Episode 420
The pirate queen offers the friends their freedom for a price, and Jimmie turns her down. - Episode 421
Civil war breaks out among the pirates, and Jimmie and his friends fight for their lives. - Episode 422
The battle with the river pirates goes on. - Episode 423
Jimmie gets the amphibian into the air and everyone escapes, bound for Hong Kong and the big air race at Shanghai. - Episode 424
With National Air's future riding on the race, Jimmie and Speed get ready, and the pirate Soo Chi shows up at the airport. - Episode 425
Speed shows Jimmie the new automatic pilot, and the Golden Dream's crew meets the English, French and Russian entries. - Episode 426
The rules are read out, and the race is on. - Episode 439
The Russian flier turns into a bitter enemy after engine trouble forces him down. - Episode 440
Fog hangs over Canton as the race goes on. - Episode 441
Jimmie's daring late parachute jump helps Speed bring the plane down blind. - Episode 442
Jimmie and Speed are first to land through the fog at Canton, and Patricia Duncan is there waiting. - Episode 447
Is that a navy officer in disguise? The race heads on toward Nanking with everyone aboard knocked out. - Episode 448
The automatic pilot saves Jimmie, but he's fallen to last place. - Episode 450
National Airlines faces a lawsuit over a death, and a discovery may explain how the race was lost. - Episode 458
Jimmie is arrested for the murder of Mr. Quackenbush. - Episode 459
The hunt for an old sailor, Ezra Whitcomb, leads to a run-in with Black Pete. - Episode 464
At the inquest into Quackenbush's death, a mystery witness accuses Jimmie. - Episode 465
Daniel Dawson, alias the Digger and a pal of Black Pete, accuses Jimmie, but Speed has a surprise witness. - Episode 468
The Digger gives the G-men the slip, and Jimmie hatches a plan. - Episode 469
Jimmie's plan backfires: Speed's plane blows up and his parachute catches fire. - Episode 476
Jimmie breaks away from the Digger's gang and turns the tables on them. - Episode 477
The Digger's men attack and set the shack on fire. - Episode 482
The search for Black Pete leads to the Golden Star. - Episode 483
Black Pete and Ezra Whitcomb meet, and things take a turn nobody expected. - Episode 484
Federal agent Butterfield manages to get a message through. - Episode 486
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- Episode 1039
Jimmie's short-tempered flying teacher, Shorty Mason, is no help, plans for the Army's new jet fighter go missing, and on Jimmie's first solo a wheel falls off. - Episode 1040
Mike Jones and Shorty Mason turn out to be in the gang, and Speed leaps from one plane to another in midair to help Jimmie land. - Episode 1041
Jimmie and Speed walk away from the crash, Jimmie has it out with Shorty, and Speed becomes Jimmie's new instructor. - Episode 1042
- Episode 1043
The FBI asks about Speed, and suspicion falls on him when the new wing drawings disappear. - Episode 1044
Another flying lesson, and a school plane is spotted landing on a small field. What is Major Moto up to? - Episode 1045
Why has Major Moto joined the flying school? In the air, a strut tears loose from the trainer. - Episode 1046
Mike Jones and Shorty sabotage Jimmie's plane, Speed brings it down safely, and a strange liquid is found on the strut. - Episode 1047
Mike Jones threatens to sue Speed, and Jimmie plans to listen in on a night meeting with Shorty and Major Moto. - Episode 1048
Jimmie tells the FBI and Captain Sweeney he thinks an enemy agent is after the plans. - Episode 1049
Flash finds that Major Moto has been collecting lead bars, and Speed is set to test the new jet fighter. - Episode 1050
Speed's test flight goes wrong when the jet spins out of control. - Episode 1051
Speed bails out as the jet crashes, and the wreck shows lead weights hidden in a tampered wing. - Episode 1052
While Speed coaches Jimmie on landing, another school plane looping nearby nearly hits him, flown by Major Moto. - Episode 1053
The missing drawings turn up in Speed's room. - Episode 1054
More secret plans are found in Speed's desk, and Speed is held at gunpoint while Major Moto buys eleven airplanes. - Episode 1055
Major Moto plans to take off in the jet at one in the morning, and a trap is set for the thieves. - Episode 1056
A figure prowls outside the hangar at night, and the man signaling from the door is Shorty Mason. - Episode 1057
Mike Jones is shot, Shorty is caught, and Major Moto gets away with the plans: he's a foreign spy. - Episode 1058
Jimmie and Speed chase Major Moto across Kansas, and an air battle is about to start. - Episode 1059
Moto crashes into trees and parachutes onto a farm, but the plans aren't in his wrecked plane. - Episode 1060
Jimmie and Speed plan a dawn search, but Moto is seen at the interurban station. - Episode 1061
The sheriff's men chase Moto while Jimmie and Speed fly overhead, and he's caught climbing down from a tree. - Episode 1062
Moto is taken away and the plans are saved, but he escapes again. - Episode 1063
Jimmie is captured by Ace and his gang while Speed and the FBI man look on, and Speed takes off after them. - Episode 1064
Moto offers Jimmie fifty thousand dollars for the plans, Jimmie refuses, and the gang's transport gets away. - Episode 1065
Jimmie makes his first solo flight on his birthday. - Episode 1066
Speed stops to help two fliers in trouble, but they're the crooks Ace and Biffer, who knock him down and escape. - Episode 1067
Ace and Biffer are found hiding in a plane near the airport and get away, and young Dick Croft asks for a job. - Episode 1068
Dick's mother has been offered money for a worthless piece of Texas land, right next to a new oil field. - Episode 1069
Rip Bender pushes Mrs. Croft to sell her land for three thousand dollars, and she agrees. - Episode 1070
Jimmie arrives just before Mrs. Croft signs, and Bender warns him to stay out of it. - Episode 1071
Barbara Croft looks for an airline job, and Bender tries to charm her. Why does he want the land so badly? - Episode 1072
Jimmie and Speed plan to fly the Crofts down to Texas to see the land. - Episode 1073
Speed invites Flash along on the trip, and Bender is back in Texas. - Episode 1074
On the way to Texas the friends spot a suspicious plane, and after refueling in Oklahoma their engine quits. - Episode 1075
Jimmie lands without power, the spark plugs turn out to have been tampered with, and a fistfight starts with Ace and Biffer. - Episode 1076
The friends stop for the night at a small Texas airport whose owner works for Bender and plans to sabotage their plane. - Episode 1077
Engine trouble strikes again after takeoff, and Jimmie makes another forced landing. - Episode 1078
At the Devil's Pass airport the manager warns them away from the Diamond A ranch, and the Crofts are missing. - Episode 1079
The Crofts are comfortable at the ranch, but a telegram signed by Speed urges Mrs. Croft to sell. - Episode 1080
Mrs. Croft is about to sign the land over to Bender when a plane is heard outside. - Episode 1081
Jimmie and Speed stop the sale, and Jimmie plans to fly over the ranch to learn what makes it so valuable. - Episode 1082
Jimmie and Speed land near an old hunting shack that someone has been using. - Episode 1083
Ortez reveals that the Benders hired him to find hidden gold, and that they killed his brother. - Episode 1084
Is there a treasure map? And who has been using a high mesa as a landing field? - Episode 1085
Speed risks a landing near the mesa and runs into Mr. Russell, the government agent. - Episode 1086
Behind a painting over the fireplace is an old parchment. - Episode 1087
From the air, Jimmie and Speed see Bender's plane parked on top of the mesa. - Episode 1088
The Benders plan to plant a time bomb on Jimmie's plane. - Episode 1089
Searching for the Lost Chihuahua Treasure, the friends find the bomb on the landing gear, and Speed climbs out on the wing with an axe. - Episode 1090
The bomb goes off after it's cut loose, and with Ortez and the map, Jimmie finds a key clue. - Episode 1091
The landmarks have changed, but at last the cave is found, with old bones and a sack of gold coins. - Episode 1092
Back at the hunting shack, another plane comes in, and that means trouble. - Episode 1093
Outnumbered, Mr. Russell plans to take the gang by surprise. - Episode 1094
Barbara has been kidnapped, and Jimmie and Speed fly to her rescue. - Episode 1095
Rip has flown Barbara to Mexico; Jimmie and Speed rescue her from the smugglers' cabin, and the adventure ends back in Kansas City. - Episode 1096
A movie studio wants Jimmie and Speed for its next flying picture. - Episode 1097
Nails Ballou's plane clips Jimmie's in the air, and Jimmie and Speed bail out just in time. - Episode 1098
Nails Ballou warns Speed to stay away from the movie job. - Episode 1099
Harry Phelps wants work for himself and his son, and he's terrified of Nails Ballou. - Episode 1100
Two studios are filming the same kind of flying picture at the same small airport, and Ballou is involved. - Episode 1101
The director explains his picture about the first American squadron in England, and a British ace thinks he knows Ballou. - Episode 1102
During a mock dogfight, the fabric starts tearing off Jimmie's wing. - Episode 1103
Flash the mechanic is back from vacation, and Speed and Ballou trade hard words. - Episode 1104
Flash has a chip on his shoulder, and Harry Phelps is found unconscious. - Episode 1105
Ballou blackmails Speed's mechanic, Mike Mancuso, into helping him go after Harry Phelps. - Episode 1106
Jimmie takes an actress up for a ride, and in the dogfight he and Ballou collide. - Episode 1107
Jimmie gets his damaged plane down, and he and Speed are sure Ballou hit them on purpose. - Episode 1108
During the filmed dogfight, Ballou tries to make Harry crash, and Speed comes to the rescue. - Episode 1109
Speed tells Jimmie what he knows about Ballou: crooked, but a fine pilot. - Episode 1110
The rival studio's picture turns out to be a copy of this one, and Ballou is behind the theft. - Episode 1111
Speed and Jimmie catch Flash fooling with the engine of Jimmie's P-38. - Episode 1112
Who is the prowler in the dark hangar? - Episode 1113
Ballou wants Harry to fly with him for a staged crash, so Speed decides to do the crash himself. - Episode 1114
Mike Mancuso warns that there's a real bomb aboard the plane Speed will crash. - Episode 1115
Jimmie and Roy Phelps crash their own plane first so the bomb won't go off. - Episode 1116
One of the prop bombs on the plane is real, and Mike Mancuso has vanished. - Episode 1117
Mike sends Speed an apology, admitting he was afraid of Ballou. - Episode 1118
An FBI man tells Speed that Ballou spied for the Allies in the war. - Episode 1119
Harry nearly loses control in the air, and he crashes on landing. - Episode 1120
Jimmie asks Roy Phelps for help with an important job. - Episode 1121
Jimmie gets hold of both scripts, and they're the same: Ballou stole it. - Episode 1122
The planes are in the air, and Harry Phelps is missing. Who is he flying with? - Episode 1123
The big dogfight is ready for the cameras, and Ballou claims Harry fell out of the plane. - Episode 1124
Ballou turns out to have spied for both sides in the war. - Episode 1125
Jimmie and Ballou fight it out in the air, and it ends in a midair collision. - Episode 1126
The movie adventure ends, and a telegram says Jimmie will fly in the Vanderpool race. - Episode 1127
An engine maker hires Jimmie to fly in the Vanderpool Cup race, fair and square. - Episode 1128
Jimmie clashes with Rags Johnson, his mechanic for the racer. - Episode 1129
Qualifying takes six hundred miles an hour, and something is wrong with Jimmie's engine. - Episode 1130
Wings Wagner wants Jimmie disqualified, and may manage it.