Son Of Porthos
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
52 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- adventure
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 38 Son of Porthos is an Australian radio 52 episode serial from 1950, a George Edwards Production. The story has intrigue, romance and thrilling adventure set in France of 1678. Adapted from a story by Alexandre Dumas (a.k.a. The Death of Aramis), however, the real author was Paul Mahalin.) Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make no claim to ownership or copyright. These recordings have been acquired from publicly available sources on the Internet, and my goal has been to put together a collection of every available episode where possible. I will add to these collections if I discover new episodes or if any new episodes become available. Additionall 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. The Long Silence · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 26 Aug 2025
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 32 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 47 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 2m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 25 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 40 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 55 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 18 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 33 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while Son Of Porthos was on the air.
Same seasons
adventure on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Son Of Porthos
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