Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
52 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- horror
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 57 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a 15 minute radio serial that ran for 52 episodes from September 9, 1943 to February 16, 1944 starring George Edwards. George Edwards (born as Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia – 1953) was an Australian actor and producer. Edwards was a pioneer of the radio serial in Australia. Prior to that he was a comedian, vaudeville artist, acrobatic dancer and stage performer. It is claimed that he changed his name from Harold Parks to George Edwards at the behest of Edward Branscombe, who was putting together an up-market act and did not want anyone associated with low-brow music hall, and that he took the name Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
13 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. The Long Silence · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 26 Aug 2025
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 1m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 24 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 39 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 54 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 17 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 32 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 47 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 2m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
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