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The World Adventurers' Club

1930s travelogue series
from archive.org

World Adventurer's Club, where members relax and regale each other with their exploits in distant and exotic places in this 15-minute transcribed broadcast.

Using the cigar-smoky, brandy in hand, parlor as a backdrop, each episode takes the form of a report being told to the other members of the club by someone who's just returned from some adventure in a far away, mysterious place. Members in the radio audience need only sit back in their chair, close their eyes, and imagine that they, too, are basking in the camaraderie of the club - as they share their experiences.

Sadly, nothing is known about any of the regular cast members of this show. We do know that Hanley Stafford was the featured story teller in at least six of the episodes. Hanley Stafford, who was born on September 22, 1889 as Alfred John Austin, took his stage name from his birthplace of Hanley, Staffordshire in England. No stranger to US radio his was the voice of "Daddy" for "Baby Snooks" and "Dithers" in the "Blondie" radio program. He died of a heart attack just a couple weeks before his 79th birthday on September 11 1968.

The series was transcribed by a California company named Transco. Of course, one of the benefits of transcription is that all 32 of the 15-minute episodes produced are still available for us to enjoy today. A tribute to the enduring nature of this series, it should be mentioned that much later, from January 1947 to January 1948, another series borrowed it's format for a set of 30-minute episodes under the simplified name The Adventurer's Club.

This page was created because it was found that the set maintained by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group was missing some episodes and also contained some audio skipping issues.

  1. Search For Robert Danforth (6.1Mb)
  2. Escape From Devil's Island (6.6Mb)
  3. New Guinea (6.2Mb)
  4. China (6.3Mb)
  5. Mexico (6.2Mb)
  6. Borneo (6.2Mb)
  7. Search For Morton Expedition (6.4Mb)
  8. Land Of Doomed Souls (6.4Mb)
  9. Strangest Town In Europe (6.4Mb)
  10. Russia (6.3Mb)
  11. The Black Hand (6.3Mb)
  12. Land Of Mystery, India (6.3Mb)
  13. Chinatown (6.2Mb)
  14. Norway's Luck (6.3Mb)
  15. The Elephant's Graveyard (6Mb)
  16. Cannibal Ants (6.2Mb)
  17. The Treasure Hunt (6.2Mb)
  18. Indo China (6.4Mb)
  19. The Fire Dog (6.2Mb)
  20. The Black White Man (6.2Mb)
  21. The Grains Of Death (6.2Mb)
  22. The Hairy Wild Man (6.2Mb)
  23. Wild Women (6.4Mb)
  24. The Ghost Light (6Mb)
  25. Singapore Joe (6.6Mb)
  26. The Fawn (6.5Mb)
  27. The Dead Heart (6.2Mb)
  28. Rahman The Mystic (6Mb)
  29. The Madona's Tear (6.6Mb)
  30. Dead Men Walking (6.3Mb)
  31. Arabian Adventure (6.2Mb)
  32. The Forest Of Forgotten Men (6.3Mb)
  33. Vampire Bats (6.3Mb)
  34. Railroad Romance (6.2Mb)
  35. Mind Over Matter (6.6Mb)
  36. The Devil Box (6.3Mb)
  37. The Devil's Snare (6.7Mb)
  38. Hammering From The Tomb (6.3Mb)
  39. The House That Screamed (6.4Mb)

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