World Adventurers Club

Explorers and adventurers meet, relax, and regale each other with tales of their exploits at San Francisco's World Adventurers Club, modeled seemingly on The Reform Club featured in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. In each 15-minute episode, one of the club's members relates a tale in a combination of narration and dramatization.

The show was produced in 1932 and transcribed for syndication. Many of the characterizations of foreign lands and remote peoples clearly and painfully reflect the prejudices of the time. Nevertheless, the program is notable for telling a coherent story, with a beginning, a middle, and end, in a short time, when modern movies and television seem unable to do so over a span of hours.

For more information, see the Old Time Radio Catalog.

Series description provided by Frank Bell.