Ramar of the Jungle

Episode 1

Evil Trek

Sat, Apr 18, 1953 26 mins

While researching a medical project. Dr. Reynolds and Prof. Ogden learn of an area ruled by a woman called The White Goddess, who uses a witch doctor's secret formula to remain young and rule over the local tribesmen.

Episode 2

White Savages

Sat, Apr 25, 1953

Ramar hears about a rare substance that halts the effects of aging. The only problem is that it is in territory controlled by The White Goddess, where white men are forbidden to enter. Nevertheless, Ramar is determined to make contact with her, but discovers that he's not the only one--two dangerous escaped convicts are looking for her, too.

Episode 3

Drums of the Jungle

Sat, May 2, 1953

An American trader can't convince the chief of a native tribe to exchange their ivory for gold. However, the village's corrupt witch doctor is more than happy to make the trade and, unknown to the chief, strikes a deal with the trader to steal the tribe's ivory in exchange for the gold. To cover his tracks, though, the witch doctor frames another tribesman for the crime--the chief's son, who happens to be a friend of Ramar's.

Episode 4

The Doomed Safari

Sat, May 9, 1953 30 mins

Jeff Sharpe, an old college friend of Dr. Reynolds, arrives in Africa in search of a rumored vast uranium deposit. Reynolds warns him that another scientist who had come seeking out the same deposit has vanished into thin air.

Episode 5

Tribal Feud

Sat, May 16, 1953

Trudy Van Dyne has been kidnapped by a wandering tribe, and her father asks Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Ogden to help find her. They eventually trace her to a village, but discover that the local witch doctor has placed her under a black magic spell.

Episode 6

The Mask of Kreenah

Sat, May 23, 1953 30 mins

This is the only episode I remember. A holy mask had the sacred eye stolen from it (The Eye of Kareenah). The eye was hidden in a cave, the heroes were in the cave, and someone lit a fire at the mouth of the cave trying to flush them out..

Episode 7

The Voice in the Sky

Sat, May 30, 1953

Ramar investigates when he hears that tribesmen are bringing their daughters to be sacrificed at a jungle altar after being ordered to by a voice that comes out of the sky.

Episode 8

Burning Barrier

Sat, Jun 6, 1953 30 mins

Episode 9

The Unknown Terror

Sat, Jun 13, 1953 30 mins

Ramar travels to a teak lumber camp in the jungle to investigate a series of seemingly unexplainable accidents.

Episode 10

Danger in Disguise

Sat, Jun 20, 1953

Ramar and Prof. Ogden come across two botanists who have just, they claim, killed their native guide in self-defense. Believing their story, the men are offered lodging for the night at Ramar's camp. However, what Ramar and Ogden don't know is that the men aren't really botanists but narcotics traffickers in Africa looking for new supplies, and they are taking a great interest in Ramar's and Ogden's new--and unpatented--medicines.

Episode 11

Mark of Shaitan

Sat, Jun 27, 1953

Prof. Ogden is attacked by a member of the sinister Shaitan devil-worshiping cult, and when he awakes he has the mark of Shaitan burned into his hand. The legend is that when the mark disappears the person will die, and as the symbol begins to fade away, Ogden gets sicker and sicker. Dr. Reynolds must race against time to unlock the secrets of the Shaitan cult before Ogden dies.

Episode 12

Jungle Treasure

Sat, Jul 4, 1953 26 mins

Dr. Reynolds reports a titanium find in the jungle to the US government. Two crooks kill and replace the officials sent to check it out, but a suspicious Ramar works out a ruse with the natives to expose the truth.

Episode 13

The Blue Treasure

Sat, Jul 11, 1953 26 mins

Dr. Reynold and Prof. Ogden are suddenly attacked by a tribe whose members are wearing a distinctive blue face paint, something neither of the men has ever seen before. The attackers are driven off, but Reynolds and Ogden manage to wound and capture one of the warriors. While the native recovers from his injuries, Tom, Howard and Charlie set out to discover what caused the unprovoked attack, and find out the meaning of the mysterious blue face paint.

Episode 14

Mark of the Bola

Sat, Jul 18, 1953

A safari ends disastrously when all the native guides and their leader are mysteriously murdered. The only survivor is the leader's wife, and the superstitious natives believe she is a witch who caused the disaster, and demand her death. Dr. Reynolds protects her while trying to find out what really happened on the safari.

Episode 15

Curse of the Devil Doll

Sat, Jul 25, 1953 30 mins

Chief Matumbo sends for Dr. Reynolds to try to help an explorer who is dying from a mysterious illness. When the doctor arrives at the village, however, the natives try to kill him. It turns out that the dying man is holding a secret that someone is trying to make him tell using voodoo, and Reynolds must find out what that secret is in order to discover who is using the voodoo on him.

Episode 16

The Golden Tablet

Sat, Aug 1, 1953 30 mins

Dr. Reynolds and a beautiful young woman run into a greedy explorer who believes that the inscription on a golden tablet he discovered is the key to a treasure of unimaginable wealth, and he will stop at nothing--including murder--get get the tablet translated.

Episode 17

Lady of the Leopards

Sat, Aug 8, 1953

Dr. Reynolds finds a woman dressed only in leopard skins who is held captive by her husband. The husband explains that during a full moon, the woman turns into a man-eating leopard. A suspicious Reynolds determines to find out the truth of the man's claims.

Episode 18

Drums of Doom

Sat, Aug 15, 1953

Ivory poachers May and her husband Carl, an escaped convict, plan to turn the natives against Ramar so that they will kill him. By poisoning the natives and blaming Ramar, the grateful witch doctors will give them ivory.

Episode 19

The Flaming Mountain

Sat, Aug 22, 1953 30 mins

While archaeologists are attempting to recover a golden tablet, they are captured by natives, who accuse them of breaking a sacred taboo. Reynolds and Ogden must find them and rescue them before their captors administer their own version of a "truth serum".

Episode 20

White Man's Magic

Sat, Aug 29, 1953

Conway, a somewhat crazed ventriloquist, wanders into Ramar's camp after having been lost in the jungle. The natives, seeing Conway's dummy, believe it to be a god, steal it, and bring it to their village to worship on a shrine. When Conway risks his life to get the dummy back, Ramar begins to suspect that there's more to it than Conway's affection for his dummy, and thinks that the dummy may be filled with stolen radium.

Episode 21

Voice of the Past

Sat, Sep 5, 1953

Dr. Reynolds treats a man whose wife has just died in an accident. When the natives begin hearing voices coming out of the darkness and see what they believe to be ghosts, they fear that the man's dead wife has come back to take vengeance for her death.

Episode 22

Zombie Terror

Sat, Sep 12, 1953

A mad scientist turns Prof. Ogden into a murderous zombie, and sends him on a mission to murder Dr. Reynolds.

Episode 23

Savage Challenge

Sat, Sep 19, 1953 30 mins

Willy takes Dr. Reynolds to Kangaland to meet his people, but when they get there they discover that a witch doctor has seized control during the chief's sickness. Reynolds gives the chief a shot of penicillin to cure his illness, but before it can take effect, the witch doctor captures Reynolds and prepares to burn him at the stake.

Episode 24

Savage Fury

Sat, Sep 26, 1953

Ramar, Howard, and Willie find the bodies of two native porters who were shot in the back. They suspect two men who claim to be traders dealing in farm implements.

Episode 25

Thunder Over Sangoland

Sat, Oct 3, 1953

Once again a murderer attempts to turn the natives against Ramar for his own gain. This time it's to gain control of oil wells.

Episode 26

Valley of No Return

Sat, Oct 10, 1953 30 mins