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First let me tell you that I really like Old Time Radio programs. You can listen to them and still work without having to get distracted by the tv. I collect comic books in the media (hence the name Monitor_Earth Prime) and I forgot all about this South African character until the trading card popped up on the side of Mego Msg board today. So I did a little research and found a page where you can listen or download the first story arc from the radio series.
OTR Jet Jungle: Project Farstar
First let me tell you that I really like Old Time Radio programs. You can listen to them and still work without having to get distracted by the tv. I collect comic books in the media (hence the name Monitor_Earth Prime) and I forgot all about this South African character until the trading card popped up on the side of Mego Msg board today. So I did a little research and found a page where you can listen or download the first story arc from the radio series.
OTR Jet Jungle: Project Farstar
Jet Jungle is the name of a mid-sixties scifi adventure superhero, who appeared in a hit radio play: "The incredible adventures of the most amazing man of our time" broadcast on South Africa's Springbok Radio as well as a Sunday comic of the same name. The main character Jet Jungle (created and voiced by Brian O'Shaughnessy).
Jet Jungle appeared with his black panther Jupiter, red-head girlfriend Samantha Muller (Diane Appleby) and scientist and faithful friend Prof. Giuseppe "Spaghetti" Valetti (Victor Melleney). The team would routinely fly off from their island headquarters, Orion's Peak, in a Vertijet at the behest of their government liaison "the Minister", to battle criminal masterminds and the occasional extraterrestrial menace.
The show was broadcast every weekday at 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon on South Africa's English radio service from 1973 until the station's close in 1985, as well as Radio Rhodesia under the then minority white regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia (the present day Zimbabwe). It is not known how many of the episodes were actually recorded, or how many of them were rebroadcast, since so little of the Springbok Radio archive exists.
Jet Jungle appeared with his black panther Jupiter, red-head girlfriend Samantha Muller (Diane Appleby) and scientist and faithful friend Prof. Giuseppe "Spaghetti" Valetti (Victor Melleney). The team would routinely fly off from their island headquarters, Orion's Peak, in a Vertijet at the behest of their government liaison "the Minister", to battle criminal masterminds and the occasional extraterrestrial menace.
The show was broadcast every weekday at 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon on South Africa's English radio service from 1973 until the station's close in 1985, as well as Radio Rhodesia under the then minority white regime of Ian Smith's Rhodesia (the present day Zimbabwe). It is not known how many of the episodes were actually recorded, or how many of them were rebroadcast, since so little of the Springbok Radio archive exists.
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