Outlawry Under the Gums


Outlawry Under the Gums is a 1933 Australian radio series about bushrangers. It ran until 1934 and was produced by John Pickard.
The show was broadcast again in 1938.
Copies of the scripts are at the Pickard and Provo papers at the University of California.

Premise

According to advertising "Dealing as they will with one of the most colorful phases of Australian History — the era of those wild and dangerous but withal picturesque, ruffians who took to the Australian bush and became a race apart from civilised society — the Series will carry to listeners a vivid mental picture of the rare charm and the
peculiar, lure of the Australian country-side; the rugged life of men and women under the gums; their
rollicking ballads, their camp-fire yarns, their quaint bush lore; and most of all the stark drama of their struggles against the.bushranging outlaws who came, as fire and drought and flood, like evil, things from the Buslilands to prey upon them in their pioneering efforts."

Episodes

  1. 8 November 1933 - "The Kelly Gang, or The Gentlemen of Strathlogie" - Part one of seven
  2. 15 November 1933 - Ned Kelly part two
  3. 22 November 1933 - Ned Kelly part three
  4. 29 November 1933 - Ned Kelly part four
  5. 6 December 1933 - Ned Kelly part five
  6. 13 December 1933 - Ned Kelly part six
  7. 20 December 1933 - Ned Kelly part seven
  8. 27 December 1933
  9. 3 January 1934
  10. 10 January 1934
  11. 17 January 1934
  12. 24 January 1934
  13. 31 January 1934
  14. 7 February 1934
  15. 14 February 1934
  16. 21 February 1934
  17. 28 February 1934
  18. 7 March 1934
  19. 14 March 1934
  20. 21 March 1934
  21. 28 March 1934 - Thunderbolt part one
  22. 4 April 1934 - "Thunderbolt" - part two
  23. 11 April 1934 - Thunderbolt part three
  24. 18 April 1934 - Thunderbolt part four
  25. 25 April 1934
  26. 2 May 1934
  27. 9 May 1934 - The Governor Brothers was scheduled but was replaced by one on Frank Gardiner out of fear of offending Aboriginal Australians
  28. 16 May 1934 - Frank Gardiner part two
  29. 23 May 1934 - Frank Gardiner part three
  30. 30 May 1934 - Frank Gardiner part four
  31. 6 June 1934 - final episode on Frank Gardiner
  32. 13 June 1934
  33. 20 June 1934
  34. 27 June 1934
  35. 4 July 1934
  36. 11 July 1934
  37. 18 July 1934

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