The Ford Show
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1955–1959
43 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1955
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1955–1959
- Surviving broadcasts
- 43
- Genre
- variety
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 44 The Ford Show aired in 1958 from the Macquarie network. Hayes Gordon hosts the program with David Lowe making announcements. Lowe was often heard on Cinesound or Movietone newsreels back in the day. The legendary Bob Gibson conducts the Ford Show orchestra with popular singing stars of the day. NFSA states that Artransa and Crawford also produced some of the Ford Shows? 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 collect 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
11 dated broadcasts across 72 years on the air, with 70 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. Night Broadcast · 14 Oct 2025
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 21 Oct 2025
- 3. Sign Off · 28 Oct 2025
Sign Off
4 Aug 2026 · 33 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
28 Jul 2026 · 48 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
14 Jul 2026 · 26 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Signal at Midnight
7 Jul 2026 · 41 min
The one everybody argues about.
A Room Above the Street
30 Jun 2026 · 56 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Long Silence
23 Jun 2026 · 19 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Dead Air
16 Jun 2026 · 34 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1955–1959
Other series the network carried while The Ford Show was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Ford Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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