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Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen Old Time Radio Program
15 minute adventure/ kids show episodes
The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen was an adventure series written for children
and teenagers and broadcast from 1933 until 1947.
Hundreds of thousands of youngsters were held in thrall by the exploits of JImmie,
who personified the finest of the ideals of a young American hero of the period:
courage, resourcefulness, and moral rectitude. As a protégé of
WWI flying ace Speed Robertson, Jimmie learned the tricks of the trade, and
enrolled in flying school, eventually to emerge as a sixteen-year-old flying
ace who traveled the world solving mysteries and participating in air show races.
Writers Bob Burtt and Bill Moore, who were both former WWI flying aces, drew
upon their personal experiences to infuse an element of authenticity in their
scripts.
Sponsor Skelly Oil provided a number of promotional items, much prized as collectors
items today. The Skelly/Allen promotions--including Jimmie Allen Air Races,
attended by tens of thousands, throughout the Midwest--are considered among
the most ambitious campaigns of early radio.
In 1936, the series was adapted to film, The Sky Parade, a Paramount vehicle
about the post-war adventures of WWI pilots. The film featured some of the cast
from the radio show playing different parts.
Inevitably, the show's popularity waned, and the writers eventually moved on
to create and script a new boys' adventures series, Captain Midnight.
During WWII the scripts were updated and reworked, and these new episodes were
aired in Kansas from 1946 to 1947. Repeat episodes of the show were heard on
various stations throughout the country until the mid-1950s.
All of our Old Time Radio Programs are in MP3 format.
You can play them on your computer, you can transfer them to MP3 players (like
the IPod), but, by and large, you cannot play them on stereos, walkmen, or car
radios.
The sound quality of Old Time Radio Programs can vary greatly. Some episodes
are excellent, others you have to turn up the volume a little and ignore the
static. All of the episodes can be listened to and enjoyed. You can listen to
our free samples to get a feel for how the programs sound.
To Download:
Downloading is cheaper, and you don't pay postage.
These episodes are downloadable in large zip files. To open a zip file you need software to "unzip" it. Your computer may already have unzip software, if this is the case, just click on the file and your software will automatically open up and you can unzip the files. If your computer doesn't have an unzip program, you can get one from the internet. The most popular is probably winzip (www.winzip.com), however, we use Zip Wizard by Coffeecup Software because its pretty good, easy to use, and free. (http://www.coffeecup.com/zip-wizard/)
The files are large - it will take you a few minutes to download each file. A full CD worth of episodes takes about 14 large files. if you are on dial-up, we highly recommend you buy a CD.
We recommend that you set up an account on checkout. If you are disrupted while downloading, you can simply log back into your account, but if you don't set up an account, you will have to e-mail us to make sure that you get your episodes.
Don't want to download? You can still buy these episodes on a CD and we will mail it to you. click here for CD version of these episodes
Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen has 123 episodes from 1936 and 1937 (no titles)
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