Drama Of The Courts Episode
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
15 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 15
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 5 Drama Of The Courts 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
5 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Case of the Missing Hour · 28 Apr 2026
- 2. Sign Off · 5 May 2026
- 3. Dead Air · 12 May 2026
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 16 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 31 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 46 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 1m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 39 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 54 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 17 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Drama Of The Courts Episode was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Drama Of The Courts Episode
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