It's A Crime, Mr Collins
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1957–1958
26 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1957
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1957–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 26
- Genre
- detective
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 116 It's a Crime, Mr. Collins, it surely is!" Running for one season, this is a distinctive show about a sleuth in San Francisco, Greg Collins. Gail Collins, wife of the famous detective, tells the crime fighting tales from her perspective as told to her friend, Jack. The couple treks all over the world solving crime from the American Southwest fighting "plumb loco disease”, to French Riviera solving gangster crime, or an Island in the Florida Keys solving murder in the humid air. As Greg fights crime, Gail fights women off of her "favourite famous detective husband and shoe shops in fabulous places worldwide. Disclaimer: By uploading these files, I make 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
7 dated broadcasts across 70 years on the air, with 69 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. A Room Above the Street · 10 Feb 2026
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 17 Feb 2026
- 3. The Last Train Out · 24 Feb 2026
Signal at Midnight
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 1m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
28 Jul 2026 · 24 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
21 Jul 2026 · 39 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
14 Jul 2026 · 54 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
7 Jul 2026 · 17 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Case of the Missing Hour
30 Jun 2026 · 32 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
23 Jun 2026 · 47 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Last Train Out
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 2m
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1957–1958
Other series the network carried while It's A Crime, Mr Collins 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 It's A Crime, Mr Collins
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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