Rocky Starr Destination Venus
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
91 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 91
- Genre
- science fiction
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 58 The Adventures of Rocky Starr The first story in the series was titled “Destination Venus”, and it ran for 104 episodes. The starring role of Rocky was played by Howard Craven, and Joe McCormick played Mitch his friend and pal. The series was produced in Sydney in the AWA studios. The series debuted on 3DB Melbourne from May 1952, 2CH Sydney from November 1952, and 4BK Brisbane from January 1952. ----------- It was a children’s show about the interplanetary adventures of daredevil Rocky Starr and his intrepid team. It was considered topical and highly dramatic, the stories were of courage and daring so dear to the juvenile heart. There were eleven dif 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
22 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 94 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Sign Off · 3 Dec 2024
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 18 min
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 48 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 26 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 41 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 56 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 19 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 Rocky Starr Destination Venus was on the air.
Same seasons
science fiction on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The rocket age
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Rocky Starr Destination Venus
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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