THE AIR ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE ALLEN

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The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen was a radio adventure serial created by writers Bob Burtt and Bill Moore, both of whom were from Kansas City, Missouri. The 15-minute program was broadcast from 1933 until 1947.

In 1933, Burtt was working as a freelance writer, while Moore was working the sports desk of the Kansas City Star and writing occasional scripts for the Star's affiliated radio station WDAF-FM. Both Burtt and Moore had been flying aces in World War I. At a party in Kansas City, the two former pilots came up with the idea of a radio series targeted at children and teenagers concerning a 16-year-old pilot and his adventures flying around the world, primarily solving mysteries and crimes and participating in air show races. Burtt and Moore then wrote the initial script about Jimmie Allen, a young telegraph messenger at the Airways Station near Kansas City. A gruff man asks him to send a coded telegram. Later Allen is told that a plane carrying a million dollars to a bank is on its way. Allen figures out the plane is to be hijacked, so he joins his pilot friend, Speed Robertson, in a plan to thwart the hijacking. Moore brought the finished pilot script to WDAF where station manager Dean Fitzer promptly put the program into production.

During the course of auditions for prospective sponsors, a Kansas City advertising agency man named Russell C. Comer was called in. Comer was impressed with the serial's possibilities and in a short while had it sold to Skelly Oil. WDAF turned its interests in The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen at this point to Comer, with the understanding that locally the show must go on WDAF exclusively. Comer employed WDAF director John Frank to direct the show, and Frank, over 40 years old at the time, also decided to take the role of 16-year-old Jimmie Allen. Robert Fiske, an experienced veteran of radio, stage and screen, played Jimmie's older pal and mentor, Speed Robertson, who, like Burtt and Moore, was a pilot in World War I. Ed Prentiss served as the opening and closing narrator and announcer for the show during its 1930s run.

EPISODES LIST

Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0016) Gun Moll Mickey
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0417) Jimmie Witnesses A Plane Crash
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0418) Jerome Durac, The Lost French Pilot
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0419) Missionary Alfred Johnson
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0420) The Queen Of The Pirates
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0421) Civil War
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0422) Battle With The Chinese Pirates Continues
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0423) The Gang Escapes From The Pirates
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0424) Jimmie And Speed Get Ready For The Race
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0425) Speed Explains The Automatic Pilot
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0426) The Race Begins
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0439) Russian Aviator Forced Down
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0440) Fog Over Canton
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0441) Speed Makes A Blind Luck Landing
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0442) Landing Through The Fog
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0447) A Naval Officer Disguised As A Chinaman
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0448) Jimmie Is Saved By The Auto-pilot
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0450) National Airlines Is Going To Be Sued!
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0458) Jimmie Is Arrested
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0459) The Search For Ezra Whitcomb
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0464) The Inquest For A J Quackenbush
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0465) Daniel Dawson Accuses Jimmie
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0468) The Digger Gives The G-Men The Slip
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0469) Jimmie's Plan Backfires
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0476) Jimmie Escapes From Digger
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0477) The Digger's Men Attack
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0482) In Search Of Black Pete
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0483) Unexpected Developments
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0484) Agent Butterfield Sends A Message
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0486) Steve And Jimmy Hole Up In A Supply Cabin
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0487) A Visitor Comes Aboard
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0490) Ezra Whitcomb Is Found
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0491) Jailed In Cuba
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0492) The American Consul Gets Them Released
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0493) Back In The USA
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0494) Going To Mexico
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0495) Arriving In Tampico
Jimmie Allen - 1936 (0500) Returning From Mining Company
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1039) Reluctance for Solo Flight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1040) Speed Lands Jimmie's Plane
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1041) Sabotage Suspected
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1042) Speed to Be Jimmie's New Instructor
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1043) Secret Drawings Stolen
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1044) Major Moto Spotted
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1045) Strut Breaks During Flight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1046) Looking over Wreckage
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1047) Flash Overhears Meeting Time
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1048) Secret Meeting Overheard
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1049) Lead Bars Found in Major Moto's Pockets
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1050) Trouble During Test Flight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1051) Lead Weight Found in Wreckage
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1052) Near Collision with Major Moto
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1053) Stolen Documents Found in Speed's Possession
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1054) Speed Held at Gunpoint
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1055) Setting Trap for Thieves
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1056) Mason Spotted in the Hanger
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1057) Speed Cleared-Thieves Caught
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1058) Pursuing Major Moto
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1059) Major Moto's Plane Shot Down
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1060) Search for Major Moto
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1061) Major Moto Captured
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1062) Imposter Leaves with Major Moto and Secret Documents
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1063) Kidnapped by Moto's Gang
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1064) Moto's Gang Captured-Secret Papers Recovered
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1065) Solo Flight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1066) Gangsters to Escape
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1067) Dick Needs a Job
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1068) Offer to Buy Tract of Land
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1069) Mrs Croft Wants to Sell Land
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1070) Signing of Agreement Delayed
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1071) Suspicious of Rip Bender
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1072) Plans to Look over Property
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1073) Discussing Flight Plan to Texas
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1074) Gangster's Plane Seen
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1075) Spark Plugs Switched
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1076) Fight with Biffer and Ace
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1077) Oil Pressure Drops
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1078) Forced Landing
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1079) Telegram for Mrs Croft
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1080) Airplane Heard
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1081) Jimmy, Flash And Speed Finally Arrive (2)
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1082) Looking over the Croft Property
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1083) Told of Buried Treasure
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1084) Airplane Tracks Seen
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1085) Russell Seen on the Mountain
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1086) Parchment Found
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1087) Parchment Is Treasure Map
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1088) Flash Reads Poetry
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1089) Speed Discovers Bomb
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1090) Landmark Found
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1091) Bag of Gold Coins Found
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1092) Hiding Airplane
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1093) Plan to Apprehend the Gangsters
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1094) Barbara Kidnapped
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1095) Leaving for Home
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1096) Telegram for Jimmie
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1097) Collision in the Air
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1098) Movie Contract Offered
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1099) Telephone Threat
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1100) Proposition from Nails Ballou
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1101) Ramsey Recognizes Ballou
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1102) Trouble During Practice Flight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1103) Flash Arrives
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1104) Harry Phelps Is Unconscious
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1105) Mike Blackmailed by Ballou
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1106) Collision in the Air
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1107) Having to Bail Out
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1108) Chasing Harry Phelps in the Air
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1109) Speed and Ballou Fight
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1110) Discussing Delays with the Filming
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1111) Flash Prowling in the Hanger
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1112) Flash Questions Mike
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1113) Plans for Crash Being Made
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1114) Warning from Mike
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1115) Jimmie Does the Crash Stunt
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1116) Mike Disappears
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1117) Apology Letter from Mike
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1118) Sandy Carson Arrives
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1119) Crash Landing
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1120) Asking Roy for Help
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1121) Manuscripts Found
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1122) Where Is Harry Phelps
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1123) Harry Phelps Fell out of Plane
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1124) Ballou Was Nazi Spy
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1125) Harry Phelps Is Dead
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1126) Ballou Killed
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1127) Talking with Monsoon Engine Executives
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1128) Lays Ground Rules Down for Rags
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1129) Engine Trouble
Jimmie Allen - 1937 (1130) Wings Votes Against Jimmie's Second Chance

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