The Real Mc Coys
Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio · 1950–1950
11 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1950
The run
- Network
- Australian commercial radio
- Years active
- 1950–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 11
- Genre
- comedy
A Collection of Aussie Radio Shows No 45 "The Real McCoy's" was a weekly feature of Melbourne Radio station 3KZ. The compere was Kevin O'Gorman and the show featured "The McCoy Quintet" led by Don Harper. The show was produced by legendary Melbourne radio man Leslie Ross. Laurie Wilson & Freddy Phillips was the duo pianists, Alan Rowe provided the comedy and each week the show had several guests performing. 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 collection 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
4 dated broadcasts across 77 years on the air, with 76 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. The Last Train Out · 26 May 2026
- 2. Night Broadcast · 2 Jun 2026
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 9 Jun 2026
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 1h 2m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 25 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 40 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 55 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 18 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 33 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 48 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Also on Australian commercial radio
Australian commercial radio in 1950–1950
Other series the network carried while The Real Mc Coys was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy 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 Real Mc Coys
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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