{
  "title": "BLACK MAGIC",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIAL]",
  "article": "[Oakland Tribune, May 29, 1931—KGO, 8:30-9:00—BLACK MAGIC, written by L. Scott Perkins—\nHarold Dana as Colonel “Simba Bob” Knox narrates “his strange tale of the pit of black magic\nwhich he found by accident in the Mt. Kenya district in East Africa…”\n[Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1931—KFI, 8:30-9:00—“For the Friday night playgoers, KFI at\n8:30 is to bring the Adventures of Kenya Bill and his companions. This episode, the fourth in ‘The\nPit of Black Magic Series,’ is to deal with their reaching a path leading to the hidden pit.”\n[Broadcasting, February 1, 1933: “McGregor and Solie, San Francisco transcription producers,\nare recording a mystery serial called ‘Black Magic’ for syndication to broadcasters. The series was\noriginally given two years ago over Pacific coast NBC hook-up under caption of ‘Kenya Bill’ for S.\nand W. Coffee Co.”\nGeorge Rand played Kenya Bill in San Francisco (and also “The Old Ranger” in the West Coast\nversion of Death Valley Days.)",
  "origination": "KGO, San Francisco, California (NBC-COAST).",
  "duration": "May 22-June ??, 1931.",
  "personnel": "L. Scott Perkins (scriptwriter, producer).\nCAST: Harold Dana (Colonel “Simba Bob” Knox), Tom Hutchinson (Jim Carlisle), Thomas Kelly, George\nRand (Kenya Bill), Ann Sawyer (Jane Worthington), Fred Thomas.\nSPONSOR: S. and W. Coffee Co.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\nTHE ADVENTURES OF KENYA BILL—“BLACK MAGIC” (KGO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Friday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nMay 22, 1931\n[EP. 1]\n[“…a Kenya Bill adventure… This story is based on fact. It tells of a girl,\nthe first white woman to enter the Kenya Hills district, and gives details\nof her disastrous adventure with the Black Magic of the tribes…”]\nMay 29, 1931\n[EP. 2]\n[“…Colonel ‘Simba Bob’ Knox will continue his tale of the pit of black\nmagic which he found in the Mt. Kenya district in East Africa…”]\nJune 5, 1931\n[EP. 3]\n[“…The third episode will tell the price Will Worthington paid for his\ndisloyalty to his wife, Jane, and Keats, of the finding of a hidden passage\nthat may lead to the storehouse of treasure in ivory and will reveal the\ndiscovery made by Simba Bob, Kenya Bill and Tom Keats in the lower\nend of the pit of Black Magic…”]\nJune 12, 1931\n[EP. 4]\n[“…Kenya Bill and his companions receive a mysterious message from\nthe past… Jane Worthington, Bob Swale, Tom Keats and Kenya Bill will\ntread softly and walk warily for they are to enter into the hidden recesses\nleading to the center of the pit…”]\nJune 19, 1931\n[EP. 5]\n[“…In this fifth episode new plans are afoot to capture Kurze, a leading\ncharacter, in a desperate effort to recover the valuable Twin Diamonds of\nUgadii...but Eli, a half-breed Arabian son of Hassan, the Muni chieftain,\nforms an alliance which makes success seem remote.”]",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}