Dead or Alive (radio serial)

Dead or Alive is an Australian radio serial by Edmund Barclay.[2] The series was a follow up to Barclay's successful serial Khyber.[3][4]

Dead or Alive
Genredrama serial
Running time30 mins (8:00 pm 8:30 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home station2BL[1]
StarringFrank Harvey
Written byEdmund Barclay
Directed byLaurence Cecil
Original releaseApril 20, 1936 (1936-04-20)
No. of series1

It is set in the Klondike in 1898.[5]

The series was very popular and was produced again by the ABC in 1943.[6] Leslie Rees called it "lively".[7]

Select episodes

  • Episode 1 - Frozen Gold
  • Episode 2 - Get Your Man[8]
  • Episode 11 - Paid in Full

References

  1. "Film News On The Air". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. I, no. 25. New South Wales, Australia. 20 April 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 25 September 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  2. Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 25 September 2023.
  3. Australasian Radio Relay League, "Dead or Alive!" Story of Canadian N.W. Mounted", The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 27 No. 15 (April 10, 1936)), nla.obj-712000346, retrieved 25 September 2023 via Trove
  4. "Serials Live On the Air". The Labor Daily. No. 3848. New South Wales, Australia. 6 April 1936. p. 8. Retrieved 25 September 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  5. Australasian Radio Relay League, "Meet These People in "Dead or Alive"", The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 27 No. 16 (April 17, 1936)), nla.obj-712009784, retrieved 25 September 2023 via Trove
  6. "All The Programmes Klondyke Serial", ABC weekly, Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission (Vol. 5 No. 10 (6 March 1943)), nla.obj-1353821681, retrieved 25 September 2023 via Trove
  7. "Plays Reality or Escape?", ABC weekly, Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission (Vol. 5 No. 10 (6 March 1943)), nla.obj-1353821884, retrieved 25 September 2023 via Trove
  8. Australasian Radio Relay League, "Monday April 27", The wireless weekly: the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 27 No. 17 (April 24, 1936)), nla.obj-712019259, retrieved 25 September 2023 via Trove
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