THE AIR ADVENTURES OF JIMMY ALLEN: 1933 -
1936; 1942
One of radio's earliest 15-minute, five-days-a-week
children's adventure serials, The Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen originally starred Murray McLean
as Jimmy Allen, a sixteen-year-old messenger and pilot-in-training at a Kansas City airport who became involved in numerous
exciting, cliff-hanging air adventures. One of the series' best-remembered sequences was the great international air
race, which included an exciting blind-luck landing by Jimmy in China, as well as a delayed parachute jump. In 1943,
after being off the air for many years, the program made a brief comeback as a summer-replacement series. For both of
its radio runs, the series was a syndicated program and was heard on hundreds of local stations around and was heard on hundreds
of local stations around the country, mostly on Mutual network outlets, and it was sponsored by various local advertisers.
-From The Encyclopedia of American Radio, by Ron Lackmann
