Broadcast: 1936

Starring: Carlton KaDell, Cy Kendall, Barbara Luddy

Added: Aug 01 2004

A hot red sun burns its swift way down through the west its broad orange shafts painting in bold relief grey balls of giant trees. Four whites, their bodies only half covered by ragged trail worn clothing cut their way through a dense mass of tangled undergrowth and emerge in to a small natural clearing. Four exhausted whites, three men and a young woman, all that remains of the once great Burton-Ashley expedition which left Nairobi many weeks back with a long queue of Amazulu fighting men, Swahili trackers and Uganda carriers to plunge in to the trackless jungles of South Central Africa in search of the ancient and forgotten city of Tohr. The little party consists of Major Burton-Ashley, head of the enterprise, Jeanette Burton his American ward, Terrance O’Rourke a happy go-lucky adventurer and the inscrutable Chinese scientist Dr Wong Tai. As they break through in to the clearing the noises of the great jungle seem for the moment hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds…