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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