The run
- Network
- Australia
- Years active
- 1948–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 40
- Genre
- soap
The Office Wife was an Australian daytime serial syndicated to commercial stations, part of the large body of locally produced women's serial drama that dominated Australian daytime radio in the late 1940s and 1950s. Australian copyright in sound recordings of this period has expired; the transfers stream 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
0 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 7 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Office Wife Ep · Date unknown
- 2. Office Wife Ep · Date unknown
- 3. Office Wife Ep · Date unknown
- 01
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 13 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 02
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 13 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 03
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 13 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 04
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 12 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 05
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 12 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 06
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 12 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 07
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 12 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-005_202205”.
- 08
Office Wife Ep
Date unknown · 12 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “office-wife-ep-040”.
Also on Australia
Australia in 1948–1954
Other series the network carried while The Office Wife was on the air.
Same seasons
soap on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The daytime serial
Fifteen minutes a day, the same family for years, and a story that never quite resolves. Ma Perkins and Stella Dallas invented serialised character audio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Office Wife
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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