That Strong Guy
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1930–1960
7 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1930
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1930–1960
- Surviving broadcasts
- 7
- Genre
- theatre
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 18 By the mid 1950’s, audiences had a pretty good idea of what to expect from a private eye on the radio, and That Strong Guy, Steve Strong, didn’t disappoint, with a stiff uppercut for those who didn’t see things his way. 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. Additionally, while I tried to put together a collection that contains the best 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
3 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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. Signal at Midnight · 23 Jun 2026
- 2. The Last Train Out · 30 Jun 2026
- 3. Night Broadcast · 7 Jul 2026
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 15 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 30 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 45 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 23 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 38 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 53 min
The one everybody argues about.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1930–1960
Other series the network carried while That Strong Guy was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of That Strong Guy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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