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* MagicalRomani: In the ClipShow finale Tarzan hosts a "gypsy party" ([[ValuesDissonace 1934, folks]]) at Greystoke Mansion, and a "gypsy fortune teller" delivers the recap by showing highlights in her crystal ball. It's Ula Vale, in costume.
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* MagicalRomani: In the ClipShow finale Tarzan hosts a "gypsy party" ([[ValuesDissonace ([[ValuesDissonance 1934, folks]]) at Greystoke Mansion, and a "gypsy fortune teller" delivers the recap by showing highlights in her crystal ball. It's Ula Vale, in costume.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Some comedy in episode 4 when a monkey steals George the idiot's yo-yo, and George winds up chasing the monkey all over the village.
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* MischiefMakingMonkey: Some comedy in episode 4 when a monkey steals George the idiot's yo-yo, and George winds up chasing the monkey all over the village.
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* MagicalRomani: In the ClipShow finale Tarzan hosts a "gypsy party" ([[ValuesDissonace 1934, folks]]) at Greystoke Mansion, and a "gypsy fortune teller" delivers the recap by showing highlights in her crystal ball. It's Ula Vale, in costume.
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: An extreme example of this at the end of episode 10, when the camera zooms in for a tight closeup of the barrel of the gun Raglan's pointing at Tarzan, right before Raglan fires.
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* TimmyInAWell: An extreme example in episode 9, when Nkima comes up to Tarzan and hoots. Tarzan gleans, from the hoots, "What's that? Prisoners in the Dead City?"
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the Dead City, the high priest and his minions speak a foreign-sounding gibberish.
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* JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras: Amazingly, Guatemalan natives make the stereotypical kookaburra call when they signal to each other.
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* SoftWater: In episode 8, Tarzan falls down a pretty high waterfall, and lives.
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** In episode 7, George is freaking out because he was attacked by...turtles. As George flails around in panic, he knocks the code book out of Martling's hand and kicks it into the river. Tarzan has to dive into the river to get the code book, and he winds up going over the waterfall downstream.
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* TheLoad: George, who mans a machine gun nicely when the party is attacked by natives early in the series, but otherwise is utterly useless, whining and complaining and often doing dumb stuff that forces Tarzan to rescue him.
* SpikesOfDoom: In episode 6 some natives are seen rigging up a tiger trap consisting of a bamboo pallet with scary spikes attached, rigged with a tripwire to fall on a passing tiger. George the idiot accidentally lures Tarzan right into it.
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* VineSwing: Can't make a Tarzan movie without him swinging around on vines. Amusingly, in the first episode Tarzan swings around the ropes on a ship, while wearing a tuxedo, in order to save Martling from the mook who's attacking him.
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* VineSwing: Can't make a Tarzan movie without him swinging around on vines. Amusingly, in the first episode Tarzan swings around the ropes on a ship, while wearing a tuxedo, in order to save Martling from the mook who's attacking him.him.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: In episode 6 George is whining about being hungry, so Ula tells him to read a book to take his mind off his stomach. The two books that he picks up (the gang having decided to take hardback books on a jungle trek!) are titled ''The Hungry Man'' and ''Food for Thought''.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: In episode 6 George is whining about being hungry, so Ula tells him to read a book to take his mind off his stomach. The two books that he picks up (the gang having decided to take hardback books on a jungle trek!) are titled ''The Hungry Man'' and ''Food for Thought''.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Typical of the genre. In episode 2 a couple of Raglan's goons have beaned Tarzan with a rock and have the chance to chop him up with machetes. Instead Raglan says "Hey! He's all finished!", and summons the goons to come away with him. Somewhat excusable as the area is teeming with angry natives, but he still had a chance to finish Tarzan off.
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* BondVillainStupidity: BondVillainStupidity:
** Typical of the genre. In episode 2 a couple of Raglan's goons have beaned Tarzan with a rock and have the chance to chop him up with machetes. Instead Raglan says "Hey! He's all finished!", and summons the goons to come away with him. Somewhat excusable as the area is teeming with angry natives, but he still had a chance to finish Tarzanoff.off.
** In episode 6 two mooks and a half-dozen native porters manage to overwhelm Tarzan and knock him out. One even says "Let me finish him!", but the other insists on waiting for Raglan. They tie him up...and then they all casually walk away. Guess what happens?
** Typical of the genre. In episode 2 a couple of Raglan's goons have beaned Tarzan with a rock and have the chance to chop him up with machetes. Instead Raglan says "Hey! He's all finished!", and summons the goons to come away with him. Somewhat excusable as the area is teeming with angry natives, but he still had a chance to finish Tarzan
** In episode 6 two mooks and a half-dozen native porters manage to overwhelm Tarzan and knock him out. One even says "Let me finish him!", but the other insists on waiting for Raglan. They tie him up...and then they all casually walk away. Guess what happens?
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* BreakingTheBonds: Tarzan is so damn manly that all he has to do in episode 6 to escape from being tied to a tree is flex his muscles. The ropes snap.
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* JustFollowingOrders: "We were just obeying orders," says the mook in episode 6 after Tarzan defeats him. Tarzan, being a nice guy, lets the two mooks leave.
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* DramaticIrony: In episode 5, one of Raglan's mooks says "I say that guy Tarzan is as dead as a maggot." This while Tarzan is sitting in a tree directly overhead. He immediately jumps on the two mooks.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Some comedy in episode 4 when a monkey steals George the idiot's yo-yo, and George winds up chasing the monkey all over the village.
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* AnswerCut: In episode 3, the gang looks down into the alligator pit where Tarzan fell. Martling says "Even if he survived the explosion, those devils would have destroyed him." Cut to Tarzan surfacing in the river, having swum out via underground passage (Tarzan seems to have gills).
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* CaughtInASnare: In the first episode Alice gets caught in a rope snare as she's running from the natives. That's bad, but the fact that she winds up dangling over a pit with two angry leopards is worse.
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** In the first episode Alice gets caught in a rope snare as she's running from the natives. That's bad, but the fact that she winds up dangling over a pit with two angry leopards isworse.worse.
** Episode 3 ends in Tarzan getting caught in a snare just as he's running to rescue Ula from a burning building.
** In the first episode Alice gets caught in a rope snare as she's running from the natives. That's bad, but the fact that she winds up dangling over a pit with two angry leopards is
** Episode 3 ends in Tarzan getting caught in a snare just as he's running to rescue Ula from a burning building.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Typical of the genre. In episode 2 a couple of Raglan's goons have beaned Tarzan with a rock and have the chance to chop him up with machetes. Instead Raglan says "Hey! He's all finished!", and summons the goons to come away with him. Somewhat excusable as the area is teeming with angry natives, but he still had a chance to finish Tarzan off.
* BoobyTrap: In episode 2, Raglan, trying to make his escape, rigs up a booby trap, namely a trip wire attached to a bunch of dynamite for the heroes to blunder into. They do blunder into it, and it blows up, providing the cliffhanger for that episode.
* BottomlessMagazines: George seems to have an infinite supply of the machine gun bullets he uses to fend off the natives in episode 2.
* BoobyTrap: In episode 2, Raglan, trying to make his escape, rigs up a booby trap, namely a trip wire attached to a bunch of dynamite for the heroes to blunder into. They do blunder into it, and it blows up, providing the cliffhanger for that episode.
* BottomlessMagazines: George seems to have an infinite supply of the machine gun bullets he uses to fend off the natives in episode 2.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: As usual with film serials, episodes end with a cliffhanger placing the heroes in some sort of mortal danger, which they escape at the beginning of the next episode.
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* MacGuffin: The "Green Goddess", an ancient Mayan statue that is filled with jewels ''and'' has a formula for a powerful explosive.
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* MacGuffin: The "Green Goddess", an ancient Mayan statue that is filled with jewels ''and'' has a formula for a powerful explosive. It's actually discovered in the first episode, due to the first episode doubling as a stand-alone feature, but but for much of the rest of the series the problem is how to decode it.
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* VideoCredits: Episodes after the first one not only have video credits of the main players, they also have little captions along with the video credits explaining who the characters are.
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* {{Flashback}}: Accompanies Bouchart's story in episode 1 about how the expeditions's plane crashed in the jungle but D'Arnot bailed out in a parachute.
* HisNameIs: In the first episode Tarzan has apprehended the ship's steward that attacked Martling. Tarzan demands that the steward reveal who hired him. The steward says "It was--", before he is interrupted by a bullet from Raglan's gun. (Naturally nobody sees Raglan fire the shot, even though he wasn't very far away.)
* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: Martling leads the party to a 400-year-old Spanish church (this film being shot on location, it was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Francisco,_Antigua_Guatemala a real 400-year-old Spanish church]], then says "If my deductions are correct, we should find the ancient Mayan ruins directly underneath these."
* HisNameIs: In the first episode Tarzan has apprehended the ship's steward that attacked Martling. Tarzan demands that the steward reveal who hired him. The steward says "It was--", before he is interrupted by a bullet from Raglan's gun. (Naturally nobody sees Raglan fire the shot, even though he wasn't very far away.)
* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: Martling leads the party to a 400-year-old Spanish church (this film being shot on location, it was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Francisco,_Antigua_Guatemala a real 400-year-old Spanish church]], then says "If my deductions are correct, we should find the ancient Mayan ruins directly underneath these."
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* VineSwing: Can't make a Tarzan movie without him swinging around on vines.
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''The New Adventures of Tarzan'' is a 1935 film serial directed by Edward Kull and William F. [=McGaugh=].
It's a 12-episode serial about, yes, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}. The plot turns on a mysterious statue deep in the jungles of Guatemala called the "Green Goddess". Lots of people, as it turns out, want the Green Goddess. Ula Vale, adventuress, seeks the Green Goddess because her fiancée David Brent died in an earlier expedition to find the statue. The Goddess is also said to contain the formula for a powerful explosive, which Ula wants to prevent from falling into the wrong hands. An explorer, Major Martling, is mounting his own expedition to find the statue, which he describes as "purely scientific." Martling has obtained and deciphered an ancient inscription which gives directions on how to find the Green Goddess. A third person seeking the Goddess, P.B. Raglan, is the villain. Unlike the unselfish good guys, Raglan is very much interested in both the formula for an explosive and the pile of precious jewels reported to be inside the Green Goddess.
The vine-swinging, yodeling hero (played by Bruce Bennett, credited under his real name of Herman Brix) comes into the story when a Frenchman named Bouchart seeks him out in Africa. Bouchart tells Tarzan that he was on the ill-fated expedition that got David Brent killed. Bouchart tells Tarzan that Tarzan's friend and mentor, Lt. Paul D'Arnot, was also on the expedition, and is still alive, but is being held captive by the natives. Tarzan agrees to accompany Martling and Vale on a new expedition to find both the Green Goddess and D'Arnot, but they'll have to beat Raglan, who mounts his own quest to get the Goddess for himself.
Produced by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, who also suggested the original story. Unlike the MGM Tarzan movies and in fact most any adventure epic of this era, much of ''The New Adventures of Tarzan'' was filmed on location in Guatemala, which makes the whole series look more authentic but also resulted in a mess of a TroubledProduction.
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* TheArtifact: The original story was a spy plot with Ula Vale being a secret agent code-named "Operator No. 17" who was seeking the formula for the explosive. The series was extensively re-written after production had already started, and the spy plot was dropped, but Vale is still seen in disguise a couple of times, and the last episode is still titled "Operator No. 17".
* CaughtInASnare: In the first episode Alice gets caught in a rope snare as she's running from the natives. That's bad, but the fact that she winds up dangling over a pit with two angry leopards is worse.
* ClipShow: The 12th and last episode is basically a recap/highlight episode, after the story has been resolved.
* DarkestAfrica: Technically, only the first part of the first episode is this, as Tarzan and the gang all leave Africa by boat for Guatemala. But there are a few angry lions and such before the setting switches to Central America.
* ExtraLongEpisode: The first episode is an hour long, much longer than usual for film serials of this era. Theater owners of the day were given the option to either run the serial or run the first episode, also titled "The New Adventures of Tarzan", as a feature.
* FilmSerial: A 12-episode film serial in which Tarzan goes on an adventure in Central America. Produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs who disliked the MGM take on his character.
* {{Loincloth}}: Tarzan wears his standard loincloth, although, this version being truer to the novels, he's also seen in Western formal dress.
* MacGuffin: The "Green Goddess", an ancient Mayan statue that is filled with jewels ''and'' has a formula for a powerful explosive.
* NonHumanSidekick: Naturally, Tarzan takes his pet chimp Nkima with him. Nkima is played by the same chimpanzee who played Cheeta in the more famous Weissmuller films. Nkima sometimes gives Tarzan a heads-up when danger is at hand.
* SignatureRoar: Tarzan does his yodel/roar, although, since it's not Johnny Weissmuller's distinctive yodel, it just sounds wrong.
* TruerToTheText: This serial was motivated in part by Edgar Rice Burroughs' irritation at the changes MGM made to his character and stories. In the Weissmuller movies, Tarzan is an "ape man" who talks in pidgin YouNoTakeCandle English. In this serial, as in the texts, Tarzan is now an educated man who has assumed the role of Lord Greystoke, and while he seems to prefer wearing a loincloth and swinging on vines, he is also fully at home wearing a tuxedo and exchanging witty banter. Additionally, the character of D'Arnot is taken from the books (D'Arnot was the one who brought young Tarzan out of the jungle and to civilization), and Tarzan's NonHumanSidekick is named Nkima like in the books instead of "Cheeta".
* VineSwing: Can't make a Tarzan movie without him swinging around on vines.
It's a 12-episode serial about, yes, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}. The plot turns on a mysterious statue deep in the jungles of Guatemala called the "Green Goddess". Lots of people, as it turns out, want the Green Goddess. Ula Vale, adventuress, seeks the Green Goddess because her fiancée David Brent died in an earlier expedition to find the statue. The Goddess is also said to contain the formula for a powerful explosive, which Ula wants to prevent from falling into the wrong hands. An explorer, Major Martling, is mounting his own expedition to find the statue, which he describes as "purely scientific." Martling has obtained and deciphered an ancient inscription which gives directions on how to find the Green Goddess. A third person seeking the Goddess, P.B. Raglan, is the villain. Unlike the unselfish good guys, Raglan is very much interested in both the formula for an explosive and the pile of precious jewels reported to be inside the Green Goddess.
The vine-swinging, yodeling hero (played by Bruce Bennett, credited under his real name of Herman Brix) comes into the story when a Frenchman named Bouchart seeks him out in Africa. Bouchart tells Tarzan that he was on the ill-fated expedition that got David Brent killed. Bouchart tells Tarzan that Tarzan's friend and mentor, Lt. Paul D'Arnot, was also on the expedition, and is still alive, but is being held captive by the natives. Tarzan agrees to accompany Martling and Vale on a new expedition to find both the Green Goddess and D'Arnot, but they'll have to beat Raglan, who mounts his own quest to get the Goddess for himself.
Produced by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, who also suggested the original story. Unlike the MGM Tarzan movies and in fact most any adventure epic of this era, much of ''The New Adventures of Tarzan'' was filmed on location in Guatemala, which makes the whole series look more authentic but also resulted in a mess of a TroubledProduction.
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!!Tropes:
* TheArtifact: The original story was a spy plot with Ula Vale being a secret agent code-named "Operator No. 17" who was seeking the formula for the explosive. The series was extensively re-written after production had already started, and the spy plot was dropped, but Vale is still seen in disguise a couple of times, and the last episode is still titled "Operator No. 17".
* CaughtInASnare: In the first episode Alice gets caught in a rope snare as she's running from the natives. That's bad, but the fact that she winds up dangling over a pit with two angry leopards is worse.
* ClipShow: The 12th and last episode is basically a recap/highlight episode, after the story has been resolved.
* DarkestAfrica: Technically, only the first part of the first episode is this, as Tarzan and the gang all leave Africa by boat for Guatemala. But there are a few angry lions and such before the setting switches to Central America.
* ExtraLongEpisode: The first episode is an hour long, much longer than usual for film serials of this era. Theater owners of the day were given the option to either run the serial or run the first episode, also titled "The New Adventures of Tarzan", as a feature.
* FilmSerial: A 12-episode film serial in which Tarzan goes on an adventure in Central America. Produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs who disliked the MGM take on his character.
* {{Loincloth}}: Tarzan wears his standard loincloth, although, this version being truer to the novels, he's also seen in Western formal dress.
* MacGuffin: The "Green Goddess", an ancient Mayan statue that is filled with jewels ''and'' has a formula for a powerful explosive.
* NonHumanSidekick: Naturally, Tarzan takes his pet chimp Nkima with him. Nkima is played by the same chimpanzee who played Cheeta in the more famous Weissmuller films. Nkima sometimes gives Tarzan a heads-up when danger is at hand.
* SignatureRoar: Tarzan does his yodel/roar, although, since it's not Johnny Weissmuller's distinctive yodel, it just sounds wrong.
* TruerToTheText: This serial was motivated in part by Edgar Rice Burroughs' irritation at the changes MGM made to his character and stories. In the Weissmuller movies, Tarzan is an "ape man" who talks in pidgin YouNoTakeCandle English. In this serial, as in the texts, Tarzan is now an educated man who has assumed the role of Lord Greystoke, and while he seems to prefer wearing a loincloth and swinging on vines, he is also fully at home wearing a tuxedo and exchanging witty banter. Additionally, the character of D'Arnot is taken from the books (D'Arnot was the one who brought young Tarzan out of the jungle and to civilization), and Tarzan's NonHumanSidekick is named Nkima like in the books instead of "Cheeta".
* VineSwing: Can't make a Tarzan movie without him swinging around on vines.
