UQFL125 Maxwell Dunn Collection

FRYER LIBRARY Manuscript Finding Aid

______________________________________________________________________________________________ Last updated: 4/10/2012 © University of Queensland 1

UQFL125 Maxwell Dunn collection Size 11 boxes Contents Works by or adapted by Dunn including radio series, radio plays, radio

documentaries, publicity booklets, synopses, sample scripts, audition episodes, script ideas, quiz game, and comic strip ideas.

Biography Maxwell Dunn (1916-1965) was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and began his

working life as an insurance agent. Turning to writing, he wrote radio plays first for the ABC, beginning with Jungle Drums in 1937, and later for the Macquarie network where he became production manager. He wrote and adapted numerous plays, serials and documentaries for the Macquarie network and its subsidiary Artransa. In 1950 Dunn joined the United Nations Radio and Television department, working for ten years in New York and New Delhi. Dunn returned to Australia shortly before his death in 1965.

Notes Open access

Further scripts by Maxwell Dunn individually catalogued as part of the Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts.

Box 1 Ace of Spades

• Adventure 1, Episode 2 10p • Adventure 1,Episode 3 9p • Adventure 1,Episode 4 9p • Adventure 2, Episode 1 10p • Adventure 8, Part 2 7p

Achievement

• The Prize of Peace 8p. • The Boy Scout Movement 2p

Advance Australia 15p Adventures of the Thin Man. [Adaptation by Maxwell Dunn from the American radio series]

• No.1 The Missing Millionaire. Episode 1 [2 copies] 9p. • No.1 The Missing Millionaire. Episode 2 [2 copies] 10p. • No. 1 The Missing Millionaire. Episode 3 [2 copies] 10p.



Alias the Bearded Lady [Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from A.C. Headley’s novel (1941).]

• no.1 6p. • no.2 6p.

The Amazing Mr Chitterwick

• Episode 1. The stranger from Egypt. [2 complete copies, some duplicate pages] 29p

The Fighting Nineteen-Twentyninth.

• Anzac Day War-Loan Broadcast 25 April 1944.6p. [2 copies]. Attached letter from Mrs G. Downs 22 June 1944 requesting copy of script; reply 7 July 1944 from Dunn.

At 7.45 4p Black Jack [kept in folder labelled: Governor Bligh with notes on the characters] Black Jack: Prologue [2 copies] 8p Episode 2 [2 copies] 7p Episode 3 [2 copies] 8p Career Girl 13p The Chinese Puzzle [3 copies] 6p. Circumstantial Evidence [5 copies] 8p. Common Wealth: The Story of Australian Private Enterprise [sample script for a series of 3 one-hour broadcasts, plus author's notes 15p]. Coee No.1 15p Crime Politique [3 copies] 11p.



The Dark Stranger • Episode 1: The coming of the stranger12p. • Episode 25: Bail allowed 8p. • Episode 26: Simon says 8p. • Episode 27: Standish plots 8p. • Episode 28: Ives calls 8p. • Episode 29: Ilma’s Anguish [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 31: The stranger re-enters 7p. • Episode 32: The attack 7p. • Episode 42: Girl in the fog 7p. • Episode 43: The Stafford family 7p. • Episode 44: Stay by Brown 7p. • Episode 45: The glove 7p. • Episode 46: Hide out 7p. • Episode 50: Hedging of hedges 8p. • Episode 50: Simon considers 7p. • Episode 51: Meeting at night [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 52: Case completed 7p. • Episode 53: What Steve knew 7p. • Episode 54: Lindy's decision [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 55: Reason for leaving [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 56: At Marble Arch [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 57: Ives proposal [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 58: Ives & the angel [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 59: Enter the primrose [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 60: Defence of an angel 8p. • Episode 61: Country journey [2 copies] 7p.

Box 2 The Dark Stranger

• Episode 62: Road to Biddlecombe7p. • Episode 63: At Bothwood House 7p. • Episode 64: Rainford 8p. • Episode 65: The family 7p. • Episode 66: The Will [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 67: The prisoner [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 68: Trouble starts 7p. • Episode 69: Tally Ho [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 70: The cigarette case [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 71: Margaret [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 72: Enter the stranger [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 73: At the mill [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 74: Rainford’s Story 7p. • Episode 75: Stranger & Judith [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 76: Steve's Query [2 copies] 7p.



• Episode 77: The end in sight [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 78: Capitulation [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 79: The Angel again [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 80: Departure [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 81: Return to the city [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 82: Steve wins [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 83:Continuation [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 84: Ardmore [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 85: Kendall's Tale 7p. • Episode 86: Enter Cherry Glee 7p. • Episode 87: The Ardmores 7p. • Episode 88: The stranger calls 7p. • Episode 89: Charge of fraud 7p. • Episode 90: Counsel in the case 7p. • Episode 91: The scapegoat 7p. • Episode 92: Ardmore's arrest 7p. • Episode 93: Stranger's warning 7p. • Episode 94: Crown case 6p. • Episode 95: Case adjourned 7p. • Episode 96: Imperious Joanna 7p. • Episode 97: Counsel for Defence [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 98: The weakest link [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 99: Cross Examination [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 100: Case for the crown [2 copes] 8p. • Episode 101: Tuscan loses the trick 7p. • Episode 106: Fingers tells the tale 7p. • Episode 107: Midnight visitors 7p. • Episode 108: Angel in the house 7p. • Episode 112; The rainbow clue 7p. • Episode 113: Fingers in disguise 7p. • Episode 114; Carlton Place rendezvous [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 115: The old ark house [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 116: Spider and the fly [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 117: This is murder [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 118: Apprehension [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 119: Good night stranger [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 120: Accent on the French 7p. • Episode 121: Ives & the angel 7p. • Episode 122: Enter the boss 7p. • Episode 123: The Inquisitor 6p. • Episode 124: The master mind [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 125: the net tightens 7p. • Episode 126: Change of heart 6p. • Episode 127: Deadly masquerade 7p. • Episode 128: Capitulation 7p. • Episode 129: Final throw 7p. • Episode 130: For the defence 6p.



• Episode 131: The trial of Baxter 6p. • Episode 136: Flight to France [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 137: At the Villa Hyacinthe [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 138: The lady disappears [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 139: The woman in the case [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 140: Ives is not amused 7p. • Episode 141: New Indictment [3 copies] 8p. • Episode 142: Day of the trial [3 copies] 7p. • Episode 143: Case for the Crown 7p. • Episode 144: Trial resumed 7p. • Episode 145: Avenging Prosecutor 8p. • Episode 146: Verdict 7p. • Episode 147: The Cornwall 7p. • Episode 148: The Girl from the sea 7p. • Episode 149: The watcher 7p. • Episode 150: The dark tower 7p. • Episode 151: The doctor of dreams 7p. • Episode 152: Echo of the past 7p. • Episode 153: Reported missing 7p. • Episode 158: Murder story 6p. • Episode 159: Investigation 6p. • Episode 160: Motive for murder 7p. • Episode 161: Apartment of death 6p. • Episode 162: Lightning strikes twice 7p. • Episode 164: Enter Mr Lamont 7p. • Episode 165: Murder is a habit 7p. • Episode 166: Mr Rennie explains 7p. • Episode 168: Train of events 6p. • Episode 170: Plan of defence 7p. • Episode 171: Day of trial 7p. • Episode 172: Cross examination 8p. • Episode 173: The stranger unmasked 6p. • Episode 177: Stop thief [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 178: Committal for trial 7p. • Episode 179: Undershaft house 6p. • Episode 180: Stranger calls 7p. • Episode 181: Rennie finds clue 6p. • Episode 182: Tales of Hoffman 7p. • Episode 183: Urgent message 6p. • Episode 184: House of fears 6p. • Episode 185: Climax [Approaches] 7p. • Episode 186: Sister against sister 7p. • Episode 187: Attack 6p. • Episode 188: Post script [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 189: Crime on the highroad 7p. • Episode 190: Who killed Cock Robin [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 191: Reported missing 6p.



• Episode 192: Stolen goods 6p. • Episode 193: The lilac plumed hat 6p. • Episode 194: The continental touch 6p. • Episode 195: Paris adventure 7p. • Episode 196: Hat trick 7p. • Episode 197: The theft 7p. • Episode 198: Charged with a crime [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 199: The second hat 7p. • Episode 200: M'sieur Le Marquis 7p. • Episode 201: Mystery visitor 7p. • Episode 202: Ives faces the facts 7p. • Episode 203: Desperate moves 7p. • Episode 204: Ives is not amused 6p. • Episode 206: Old enemies 6p. • Episode 207: Power to destroy 7p. • Episode 208: The final throw 7p.

Box 3 Dead Letter Office 6p. Decision: A Play for Broadcasting 6p. Monica Hale

• Synopsis. Dated 10.8.46 5p • New episode summary. Dated 27.8.46 • Inter-office memorandum, Macquarie Broadcasting Service Pty Ltd, 22 Aug 1946 re

synopsis.- to Monica Hale • Digger Hale's Daughters : The Conclusion Therof 1p • List of characters who Appeared in Digger Hale’s Daughters 7p • Facts Concerning Digger Hale’s Daughters 5p • Monica Hale, episode 1 [2 copies] 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 3 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 4 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 5 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 6 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 7 7p. • Monica Hale, episode 8 8p. • Monica Hale, episode 9 8p. • Monica Hale, episode 11 7p.

Digger Hale's Daughters

• Episodes No.391-416. Bound volume with cover note: This copy contains originals and spares



Doctor Mac

• Doctor Mac. Written by Margaret Dunn. 7p • Two blue men. Written by Margaret Dunn 7p. • Rest cure. Written by Margaret Dunn [2 copies, 7p and 8p]. • The book and the cover. Written by Margaret Dunn 7p. • Diagnosis by gossip. Written by Margaret Dunn 6p. • Doctor Mac [2 copies] 7p. • Doctor Mac 7p. • Doctor Mac. Special Mothers Day Appeal – 3AW Melbourne. 5p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • Cassandra 6p. • A walnut tree 6p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • A very reverend gentleman. Doctor Mac Series 18 No.39.[2 copies 8p, 1 copy 7p] • The world is right. Doctor Mac: Series 19 No. 36 6p • Doctor Mac Series 19, No. 37 [2 copies] 7p • Emphasis on love: Doctor Mac Series 24 No.11, Written by Margaret Dunn. 8p. • By any other name. Doctor Mac Series 24 7p. • Time payment. Doctor Mac Series 24 7p. • Doctor Mac Series 24 No.6. 8p.

Dramas of the Courts

• The doctor takes a life 7p. • The freedom trial 5p.

• Notes for next series ‘The Land and the Lost’. Draft script for a special presentation for the final session of Macquarie Broadcasting Service series Country Quiz, to be titled ‘Drift to the City. 11p. Also plot projection for ‘Drift to the City’ [3 copies] 4p. Notes re the opening [5 copies] 2p. Correspondence 17 June 1949 with Macquarie Broadcasting Service Ellery Queen: Master Detective

• Mad Hatters Tea Party, episode 1 [4 copies] 8p. • Mad Hatters Tea Party, episode 2 [3 copies] 7p



Eyes of Knight: • 2 Folders of plot and character notes • Episode 1: Lady of the East [2 copies] • Episode 2: Attack in the dark8p. • Episode 3: The clue [3 copies] 12p. • Episode 4: The captain is stubborn 11p. • Episode4: Part of Aden [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 5: Mysterious Mr Smith [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 6: Death by night [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 7: The captain is stubborn [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 8: Suez [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 9: Missing persons [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 10: Tension increase [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 11: Death comes again [2 copies] 6p. • Episode 12: Mclane in charge 6p. • Episode 13: Eastern Princess [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 14: What Katie did [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 15: Alibis [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 16: Katie calls [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 17: Arrest [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 18: The light in the cabin [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 19: Significant event [2 copies] 6p. • Episode 20: Murders rendezvous [2 copies] 6p. • Episode 21: Suspects [2 copies] 6p. • Episode 22: Murderer unmasked [2 copies] 6p. • Episode 23: Explanation [3 copies] 6p. • Adventure: Perfume of Allah • Episode 25: Mr Surhim Bey [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 26: Madame Laverne 7p. • Episode 27: In the garden 7p. • Episode 28: More of Mr Bey 6p. • Adventure 2: 3 Wise men • Episode 29: The star followers 6p. • Episode 30: The capsule 6p. • Episode 31: In New Bond Street 7p. • Episode 32: Talleyard reports 7p. • Episode 33: Ambush 7p. • Episode 34: Climax 7p. • Notes on Angel of Fire 1p. • Adventure 3: Angel of Fire • Episode 36: Suspected arson [3 copies] 8p. • Episode 37: Patricia attacks 6p. • Episode 38: Bernard retreats 7p. • Episode 39: The warning 7p. • Episode 40: Under discussion 6p. • Episode 41: Meet the Colonel 6p. • Episode 42: The Angel comes 6p.



• Episode 43: Fire in the night 7p. • Episode 44: Kidnapped 7p. • Episode 45: Location 6p. • Episode 46: Reprieve 6p. • Episode 47: Plan for capture 7p. • Episode 48: Lattimer 6p. • Episode 49: More Lattimer 7p. • Episode 50: The kidnapping 7p. • Episode 51: The farmhouse 7p. • Episode 52: Conclusive 6p. • Adventure 4: The bitter wind • Episode 53: Patricia proposes 7p. • Episode 54: The proposition 6p. • Episode 55: Miss Markham 7p. • Episode 56: Mystery of a winter 6p. • Episode 57: Tea with Miss Markham 6p. • Episode 58: Miss Markham calls 7p. • Episode 59: At Queens Grove 6p. • Episode 60: Stormin' the house 6p. • Episode 61: Storm's stay 7p. • Episode 62: Untitled7p. • Episode 63: Unexpected arrival 6p. • Episode 64: Stormy story 7p. • Episode 65: The accident 7p. • Episode 66: Full story 7p. • Episode 67: The penitent 6p. • Episode 68: Dinner party 6p. • Episode 69: Invitations 7p. • Episode 70: Before the party 7p. • Episode 71: At the Savoy 7p. • Episode 72: Authoress 7p. • Adventure 5: The magpie • Episode 73: A word with Patricia 7p. • Episode 74: Findings returned 7p. • Episode 75: The intruder 7p. • Episode 76: McIane calls 7p. • Episode 77: The prints 7p. • Episode 78: Inquiry 7p. • Episode 79: In the nest 7p. • Episode 80: Hiatus 7p. • Episode 81: In the tunnel 6p



Box 4 For These Were Great Men.

• Notes for planned series 1p • Episode 1: Cecil John Rhodes, Dreamer of Empire [2 copies] 10p.

From This Day Forward Synopsis for a new radio serial dated 16.10.44. 5p. Front Page Lady

• Notes Plot projection, character notes and synopsis • Episode: Alpha No.1: Marian marks time [2 copies] 7p. • Episode: Beta No.1: The House [3copies] 7p. • Episode 1: Marian's Inheritance [4 copies] 8p. • Episode 2: Sam Murray 7p. • Episode 3: Cliff talks [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 4: Low water [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 5: Indecision 7p. • Episode 6: Mr Kimberley's advice 7p. • Episode 7: The financier 7p. • Episode 8: The honey catcher 7p. • Episode 9; The letter 7p. • Episode 10: Marian interposes 7p. • Episode 11: The auction order 7p. • Episode 12: Pamela Roberts 7p. • Episode 13: Untitled 7p. • Episode 14: Christian ideal 6p. • Episode 15: The meeting 7p. • Episode 16: Breakdown 8p. • Episode 17: Compromise 7p. • Episode 18: Marian's disclosure 6p. • Episode 19: Benson interpose 6p. • Episode 20: The bank decision 6p. • Episode 21: Ultimatum 7p. • Episode 22: Cliff Starts something 7p. • Episode 23: Showdown 7p. • Episode 24: Libel action 1p. • Episode 26: Unexpected allies 7p. • Episode 27: Jim Coles alia John Carson 8p. • Episode 28: Identity Denied 9p. • Episode 29: Carson Engaged? 8p. • Episode 30:Engagement postponed 7p. • Episode 31: Mona Starr 8p. • Episode 32: First approach 9p. • Episode 33: Revelation 8p.



• Episode 35 8p. • Episode 37: A journey 8p. • Episode 44: Conclusion 8p. • Episode 46: Back to tows 7p. • Episode 47: New moves 7p. • Episode 48: Mr Walter Watkins 7p. • Episode 49: Benson acts 7p. • Episode 50: The conspiracy 7p. • Episode 50A: Dinner party 8p. • Episode 51: Deep waters 8p. • Episode 52: Benson moves 7p. • Episode 53: The walk-out 7p. • Episode 54: Journey's end 7p. • Episode 55: The presses stop 7p. • Episode 56: Untitled 8p. • Episode 57: Deadline 8p. • Episode 58: The hours run out 7p. • Episode 59: Eleventh hour 7p. • Episode 60: Misfortune of Smart 7p. • Episode 61: Enquiry 7p. • Episode 62: Exit Benson 7p. • Episode 63: New beginnings 7p. • Episode 64: The new G.M. 6p. • Episode 65: Appointment made 7p. • Episode 66: Enter Guy Sinclair 7p. • Episode 68: First-hand information 8p. • Episode 69: Untitled 6p. • Episode 70: Re-enter Benson 7p. • Episode 71: Warned off 7p. • Episode 72: The robbery 7p. • Episode 73: Benson menace [2 copies] 7p. • Episode 74: The fugitive 7p. • Episode 75: Gentlemen meet 7p. • Episode 76: Gathering storm 7p. • Episode 77: Silvie’s story 7p. • Episode 78: The arrest 7p. • Episode 79: Triangle 7p. • Episode 80: Points of the triangle 8p. • Episode 81: Apologies with orchids 7p. • Episode 82: Rebound 7p. • Episode 83: Benson again 7p. • Episode 84: Difficult meeting 7p. • Episode 85: Understanding 7p. • Episode 86: Written off 8p. • Episode 87: The meeting 7p. • Episode 88: The meeting 6p. • Episode 90: The book 7p.



• Episode 91: Sinclair explains 7p. • Episode 92: Untitled 7p. • Episode 93: Marian in Brentwood 7p. • Episode 94: Benson's plan 7p. • Episode 95: Brentwood bound 7p. • Episode 96: Antagonists meet 7p. • Episode 97: Arena 7p. • Episode 98: Mysterious name 6p. • Episode 99: Strange friendship 7p. • Episode 100: Invitation 7p. • Episode 101: Meeting the magnate 7p. • Episode 102: Binnie's advice 7p. • Episode 103: The offer 8p. • Episode 104: Home truths 7p. • Episode 105: Still more home truths 7p. • Episode 106: About Sinclair 7p. • Episode 107: The illness 7p. • Episode 108: Explanation 8p. • Episode 109: Benson's hand 7p. • Episode 110: Signs & warning 7p. • Episode 111: Mystery 7p. • Episode 112: Sam steps in 7p. • Episode 113: The phone call 7p. • Episode 114: The fatted calf 7p. • Episode 115: Cards are dealt 7p. • Episode 116: Dilemma 7p. • Episode 117: Confirmation 7p. • Episode 119: Defiance 7p. • Episode 120: The last of Sinclair 7p. • Episode 121: Untitled 7p. • Episode 122: Jerry investigates 7p. • Episode 123: Old Mr Blain 7p. • Episode 124: Cliff is interested 7p. • Episode 125: Untitled 7p. • Episode 126: Timbuck Trail 7p. • Episode 127: Assault 7p. • Episode 128: East wind 7p. • Episode 129: Jerry's report 7p. • Episode 130: Midnight visit 7p. • Episode 131: David's decision 7p. • Episode 132: Reception 7p. • Episode 133: Hostility 6p. • Episode 134: Editorial 7p. • Episode 135: David's windfall 7p. • Episode 136: Christmas dilemma 7p. • Episode 137: David's story 7p. • Episode 138: Arrest 7p.



• Episode 139: Close shave 7p. • Episode 140: David unlucky 7p. • Episode 141: Showdown 7p. • Episode 142: Faster tempo 7p. • Episode 143: Touche 7p. • Episode 144: Zero hair 7p. • Episode 145: The discovery 7p. • Episode 146: Morley's reaction 7p. • Episode 147: Double cross 7p. • Episode 148: The new mayor 7p. • Episode 149: Beginning libel action 7p. • Episode 150: Diagnosis 7p. • Episode 151: Specialist Report 7p. • Episode 152: Dark future 7p. • Episode 153: The letter 7p. • Episode 154: Husky talks 7p. • Episode 155: Untitled 7p. • Episode 156: Die is cast 7p. • Episode 157: Dinner party 7p. • Episode 158: Crisis 7p. • Episode 159: Consultation 7p. • Episode 160: The future 7p. • Episode 161: Card fame 7p. • Episode 162: The process 7p. • Episode 163: Cliff returns 7p. • Episode 164: Untitled 7p. • Episode 165: Cliff & Regina 7p. • Episode 166: Compromise 7p. • Episode 167: Hawley 7p. • Episode 168: The family again 7p. • Episode 169: Homecoming 7p. • Episode 170: Good advice 7p. • Episode 171: Family row 7p. • Episode 172: Campaign 7p. • Episode 173: Marian plans 7p. • Episode 174: Cards on the table 6p. • Episode 175: Mother knows best 7p. • Episode 176: More plans 7p. • Episode 177: To Brentwood 7p. • Episode 178: Departure 7p. • Episode 179: In Brentwood 7p. • Episode 180: More in Brentwood 7p. • Episode 181: Cliff baulked 7p. • Episode 182: Preliminaries 7p. • Episode 183: Woman to woman 7p. • Episode 184: Hawley dies 7p. • Episode 185: Plan of campaign 6p.



• Episode 186: Rats in the family 7p. • Episode 187: The family humble 7p. • Episode 188: Marion acts 7p. • Episode 189: Regina proposes 7p. • Episode 190: Woman to woman 7p. • Episode 191: Stormy interview 7p. • Episode 192: Cliff has a word 7p. • Episode 193: The proposal 7p. • Episode 194: Domestic tangle 7p. • Episode 195: Reply wanted 6p. • Episode 196: Change for the worse 7p. • Episode 197: Compensation 7p. • Episode 198: Diagnosis 8p. • Episode 199: Operation 7p. • Episode 200: The family cracks 7p. • Episode 201: The triumph 7p. • Episode 202: Regina boasts 7p. • Episode 203: Untitled 7p. • Episode 204: Pre operation 7p. • Episode 205: Operation 7p. • Episode 206: Decline 7p. • Episode 207: The end & the beginning 7p. • Episode 208: And the end again 8p.



Box 5 Gus Gray and the Green Cross

• Gus Gray and the Green Cross: Errata 7p. • Episode 1: 10p. • Episode 2: 10p. • Episode 3: 10p. • Episode 4: 10p. • Episode 5: 10p. • Episode 6: 9p. • Episode 7: 10p. • Episode 8: 9p. • Episode 9: 10p. • Episode 10: 8p. • Episode 11: 9p. • Episode 12: 9p, • Episode 13: 9p. • Episode 14: 9p. • Episode 15: 10p. • Episode 16: 9p. • Episode 17 10p. • Episode 18 9p. • Episode 23 9p. • Episode 24 9p. • Episode 25: 10p. • Episode 26: 9p.

Gus Gray - Special Correspondent

• Episode 1: The nine ivory buddhas 7p • Episode 4 9p • Episode 45 9p. • Episode 46 8p. • Episode 47 9p. • Episode 48 8p.

Gus Gray and the Dream Merchant

• Plot notes, 1 p • Episode 1 [2 copies] 10p

Send for Gus Gray

• Episode synopsis dated 23 Aug 1941. 2p The Hansard Story 33p.



Harvey's Town • Characters and plot projection 8p.

Hollywood Club 5p. I Am a Batchelor:

• Episode - Rex Collins 3p. I Give and Bequeath

• Episode 4: The will of the lost one7p. • Episode 7: The happy will 7p. • Episode 8: Come into my parlour 8p. • Episode 9: The milestone 8p. • Episode 10: The testament of Andrew McKinley 8p. • Episode 11: The dog has his day 8p. • Episode 12: The reluctant nobleman 8p.

I Wish

• Sample script [2 copies] 8p. Impact 15p. In His Steps. Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Munro Sheldon.

• Plot notes by Artransa Pty Ltd.[2 copies] 3p. • Scripts for episodes 1-53 (missing 11, 13, 20-23, 29, 32-38, 40-48, 50-52). Each episode

comprised two ‘acts’ each representing a weekly broadcast. Scripts 5-8p foolscap typescript.

The Incomparable Charlie Chan. Adapted for Radio by Maxwell Dunn Series 1: The man who grew younger

• Episode 1: 7p. • Episode 2: 7p. • Episode 3: 7p.

Jack o' Diamonds

• Audition Episode [2 copies]4p. •



Jamaica Inn. Adapted from novel by Daphne du Maurier

• Notes on plot and characters 23p. • Episode 1 6p. • Episode 2 7p. • Episode 3 6p. • Episode 4 7p. • Episode 5 6p. • Episode 6 7p. • Episode 7 7p. • Episode 8 6p.

Box 6 Jones Junior. Original script by Alec Coppell. Revised by Maxwell Dunn

• Episode 1: 7p. • Episode 2: 7p.

Launceston Calling: A Radio-Revue Written for the Microphone. Dated January 1938. [2 copies] 16p. The Man in Grey. Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the 1941 novel by Eleanor Smith

• Episodes 1-32. Each episode 7-9 pp. Multiple copies of some episodes. The Man in Half Moon Street ‘Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the three-act stage play by by Barre Lyndon 14p. Mantle of Greatness [Radio series produced by E. Mason Wood and written by a range of well-known Australian script writers. The series presented dramatised episodes in the lives of significant world figures. The series was broadcast weekly during 1948 over 69 radio stations via the Macquarie network.] [Folder of notes labelled: Bernhardt. Includes research notes on Joan of Arc, Sarah Berhardt and miscellaneous material about the Mantle of Greatness series.]



Mantle of Greatness 1st Series

• Episode 1: The Zenger Case 7p. • Episode 2: Our Free World 7p. • Episode 3, Part 1: Emile Zola 7p. • William Charles Wentworth 12p. • Montgomery of Alamein

o Act 1 12p. o Act 2 9p. o Act 3 8p.

• Lincoln o Part one 8p. o Act 1 9p. o Act 2 [2 copies] 8p. o Act 3 [2 copies] 8p.

• Winston Churchill. Written by Cecil Mann. 12p. • Thomas Sutcliffe Mart, Written by Cecil Mann.

o Act 1 8p. o Act 2 8p. o Act 3 7p.

Mantle of Greatness 2nd Series

• Paderewski o Notes16p o 2 sets of scripts

§ Paderewski Episode 1 7p. § Paderewski Episode 2: The patriot 7p. § Paderewski Episode 3: The peacemaker 7p. § Paderewski Act I 8p. § Paderewski Act II 8p. § Paderewski Act III 9p.

• Trailer Episode for 2nd series (Goldsworthy) [4 copies] 9p. Mantle of GreatnessNo. 64 (1) - Goldsworthy 8p

Mantle of Greatness Decade 1815 - 1825

• Episode 1: Decade 1815 - 1825 [2 copies] 8p • George Stephenson

o Notes and plot development 8p. o George Stephenson Part 1 9p. o Part 3 - 2 copies 8p.

Mantle of Greatness Decades 1825 – 1845.

• A Tale of 2 Papers 7p. o No.2 The tale 2 papers 7p. o No.3 Tale of 2 papers 7p. o Final episode Tale of 2 papers [2 copies of each] 6p.



Mantle of Greatness Decade 1845 - 1855 7p.

• Faraday o No.2 Faraday 6p. o No.3 Faraday 6p. o No. 68 The Faraday Story Part I [2 copies] 9p; Part 2 7p. o Part 3 7p.

• Sir Henry Bessemer o Part 1 9p. o Part 2 9p. o Part 3 8p.

• Episode 71: The Steel Man [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 72: [2 copies] 9p.

Box 7 The Mantle of Greatness

• Episode 73 Final 7p. • The Call of the Key: Samuel Finlay Morse

o Notes & plot development 9p. o No.1: The Painter [3 copies] 7p. o No.2: The Inventor [3 copies] 7p. o No.3: The Fighter [3 copies]

• Lord Kelvin o Part 1 [2 copies] 8p. o Part 2 [2 copies] 9p. o Part 3 [2 copies] 8p.

• Canadian Pacific Railway Series. o Plot summary1949 8p. o Mantle of Greatness Canadian Pacific Series notes 7p. o Episode 80: Young man from Scotland [2 copies] 9p. o Episode 81: Confederation (2) 7p. o Episode 82: The Adventurer (2) 7p. o Episode 83: Craigellachie (2)

• The White Rajah 7p. o Episode 85: [2 copies] 6p. o Episode 86: [2 copies] 7p. o Episode 87: [2 copies] 7p.

• The Land is Bright:The Australian Agricultural Company o Notes The Australian Agricultural Co. 1824-75 by Jessie Gregson (A&R, 1907) 5p. o Episode 88: 8p. o Episode 89: 6p. o Episode 90: [2 copies] 8p.

• The Golden Mountain: Being the Story of Mount Morgan o Newspaper Clippings re Mount Morgan o Episode 94: [3 copies] 11p. o Episode 95: [4 copies] 9p.



o Episode 96: [3 copies] 9p. o Episode 97: [3 copies] 11p.

• Oil of Empire: The Story of the Anglo Iranian Oil Co. o Episode 98: [3 copies] 11p. o Episode 99: [3 copies] 11p. o Episode 100: [4 copies] 10p.

• Challenge of the Future: Finale of Mantle of Greatness o Episode 101: [2 copies] 9p.

Mantle of Greatness Bound volume of episode 74-101 (including some not written by Dunn)

Box 8 Marion's Times: A New Radio Serial Combining Adventure with Human Interest

• Character Notes and plot projection. Dated 3/3/48. [2 copies]13p. Montgomery

• Episode 1: 7p. • Episode 2:6p. • Episode 3:6p.

My Anna

• “Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the three-act stage play by B.S. Harper.” • Act 1: 16p. • Act 2: 16p.

My Son, My Son. [Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the 1937 novel by Howard Spring.]

• Character notes dated 1944. 9p. • Episodes 1-51; duplicate pages of certain episodes.



The Nine Ivory Buddhas [a Gus Gray serial]

• Episode 1: A scream in the night 17p. • Episode 2: The man wtih yellow eyes 16p. • Episode 3: Queer contents of a tin trunk 15p. • Episode 4: At the Diamond Slipper 17p. • Episode 5: Spike Trevannian hangs up his hat 16p. • Episode 6: Flo plays a lone hand - without trumps 15p. • Episode 7: The countess turns the tables 18p. • Episode 8: The charming young man named Smith 14p. • Episode 9: Murder on the Marseilles train 16p. • Episode 10: The doublecross 15p. • Episode 11: Gathering of the clans 15p. • Episode 12: The whole story. [2 complete copies and extra copies of some episodes.] 16p.

Penelope

• Script Idea 4p. The play's the thing

• No.1: Shadow at my shoulder 7p. • No.2: Shadow at my shoulder 7p.

Three Loves Had Lucy. The Playwright Present series. 5p. The Price of Happiness [4 copies] 6p. Prisoner at the Bar

• No. 14 [2 copies] 19p. • No.A20 [2 copies] 18p. • No.A24 [2 copies] 16p. • No.A25 19p. • No.A26 14p.

Box 9 Quiz-Etiquette. Proposal for a new radio quiz game7p. The Quiz Kids Programme no.365, recut Part 2 4p. Radio Roadhouse

• Script idea for a half-hour series based on an idea by Reg and Barbara Lewis. 8p.



The Rains Came. Adapted from the 1937 novel by Louis Broomfield.

• Character notes 2p. • Audition script 2p. • Episodes 1-39; most episodes 7-9p; some notes for additional dialogue

River Romances [From an idea by David Nettheim ]

• Series idea by David Nettheim 4p. • No.1 - Audition Episode [2 copies] 4p. • No.? - The Nile and the Music of Egypt 4p.

School for Spinsters “Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the Three-Act Stage Comedy by Roland Pertwee”. Macquarie Radio Theatre. [appears to be incomplete] 14p. Secret Assassin [2 copies]33p. Send for Susan Browne

• Along the Primrose Path - Part One7p.

• Along the Primrose Path - Part Two8p. Shall We Dance

• Episode 18p.



Sherlock Holmes • Sherlock Holmes Trailer 1 [2 copies]2p. • Sherlock Holmes: Script Taken from the American Disc.14p. • The case of the NorwoodBuilder- Parts 1 & 215p. • The Sussex vampire- Parts1 & 214p. • The Lion's mane- Parts 1 & 214p. • The adventure of the ReigateSquires - Parts 1 & 2 15p. • The speckled band Parts 1 & 2 16p. • (2 duplicate pages incl. in pagination) • The disappearing player - Parts 1 & 2 [3 copies] 19p. • No.3: The five orange pips Parts 1 & @ 14p. • No.3 (4?): Silver blaze - Advertising script. Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 20p. • No.5: Disappearing of Lady CarfaxParts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 16p. • Lady Carfax Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 14p. • No.5 The second stain Parts 1 & 2 15p. • No.7: The copper beeches Parts 1 & 2 13p. • No.7 (8?): The engineer's thumb Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 17p • No.8 (9?): The devil's foot 17p.;Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 14p. • No.9 (10?). The Musgrave Ritual; Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 17p. • No.11 The Abbey Grange 18p. • Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies]14p.

Ship's Surgeon

• Story outline, character sketches2 copies – incomplete 4 pages script only The Silver Mantle

• Presented Station 7LA Launceston 18/12/1937 [3 copies]10p. The Sinclair Girl

• Plot projection episode dated 12/12/1947. 9p. • Special audition episode7p. • Episode 1: Parade [2 copies 7p, 9p]. • Episode 2: Misfortune7p.2 copies

Stories from the Poets

• Notes and series outline 4p • No 1: ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes 2 copies 6p, 7p. • No.2: ‘Break, Break, Break’by Alfre Lord tennyson 6p. • ‘The Slaves Dream’ by Richard Lane 6p.



Them Hawkins: A Family Affair in Serial Form

• Episode 1 - 2 copies10p. • Episode 1 - different version 03/1938 5p.

These are Eagles 13p. This Thing Called Love

• Episode 1 -(alternative ending? 2p) 9p. • Episode 2 -(alternative ending? 2p) 7p.

Thirty Minute RadioTheatre

• Plot projections • Episode 1 Wings of Darkness • Episode 2 - Oh Sweet Mystery of life • Episode 3 - Relentless enemy • Episode 4 - The Butterfly • Episode 5 – The Flame on the Headland • Episode 6 - We have eloped • Episode 7 - Escape to Libson • Episode 8 - The Border of Night • Episode 9 - The man in her life • Episode 10 - Fool's carnival • Episode 11- Four on a honeymoon • Episode 12- Home of the heart • Episode 13 - Green burns the flame

Triphibian Terror

• Trailer episode 8p; memo 21 January 1944 attached from Macquarie Broadcasting Services, Mr R.E. Lane.

Turning the Fables

• The Lion, the Tiger and the Fox 7p. ‘Tale of Two Islands’. U.N. Story: No. 56. ‘An English Feature Presentation on United Nations Radio.’ 2 copies (one of which10/04/1950 12p.is a working copy) ‘Native Tongue.’ U.N. Story. ‘An English Feature Presentation on United Nations Radio.’ 2 copies 10/09/1950 9p. (one of which is a working copy)



Vanity Fair • Act 1 18p. • Act 2 19p. • Act 317p.

Box 10 Woman of Courage [Documentary series for Artransa Pty Ltd]

• Series outline 3p • No 1: Edith Cavell 3 copies 9p. • No 2: Marjorie Lawrence 2 copies 7p/8p • No 5: Elizabeth Fry 7p. • No 9: Clara Barton 7p. 2p • No 15: Marie Curie 8p. • No 17: Victoria Regina 7p. • No 18: Sarah Bernhardt 6p. • No 19: Lady Hamilton 7p. • No 20: Madame Chiang Kai Chek 8p. • No 21: Florence Nightingale 8p. • No 22: Queen Christina of Sweden 7p.2 copies • No. 23: Harriet Beecher Stowe7p. 2 copies • No. 24: La Passionaria 6p. • No 25: Helen Keller 6p. 3 copies • No 26: Dutchess of Marlborough 7p. • No 27: Sister Kenney 7p. • No 29: Anne Bonney 8p. • No 30: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 6p. • No 32: Rachel Crowdy 6p.

Words That Shook the World

• Presentation 1: John Quincy Adams Speaks. 6p. 2 copies 7p. World Digest Weekly. Edited by Maxwell Dunn

• Edition 1. 2 copies 7p



[Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Information. Special Programme March 1942] • Letter 10 Mar 1942 to Maxwell Dunn from Commonwealth of Australia. Department of

Information, with suggested draft of a script for an address by Mr A.E. Monk, President of the ACTU, on all commercial stations, Sunday, 15th March, 1942. 1 leaf typescript signed by the Controller of Advertising, initials IBH.

• Suggested draft of address. 2 copies 3p. 4p • Script for programme incorporating Monk’s address 3 copies 4p, 5p

Incomplete and unidentified scripts. 2 folders

Box 11 King Conquest: A new Comic Strip Adventure Story. Story treatment by Maxwell Dunn; drawn by Geoff Wilkinson.

• Character summaries, plot projection, King Conquest in pictures 15 p. International Correspondence Schools: Short Story Writing course. Lessons, test papers dated 2/11/35 - 23/7/41. Universal School of Writing: course materials Parts 1 -5107p. The Technique of Writing for Radio: Study units 1 -10 What I Hate about Women, by ‘Peter Maxwel’

• No 1 5p. • No 2 4p. • No 3 3p. • No 4 2p.



Scripts by other authors • Anderson, Bruce, Theatre of the Air – 5p script • Foster, Lynn, Drama of Medicine

o Programme 30: Tuberculosis 6p. o Programme 31: Tuberculosis 8p. o Episode 64: The Anti TB Campaign 9p.

• Collins, John, Chaplain Jim, o trailer episode 2p. o Audition episode 6p.

• Hanbury, Ronnie, Ignorance Is Bliss No 5 27/3/50 21p. • Hanbury, Ronnie, Up the Pole No. 23 24/3/50 30p. • If I Were King. Adapted from the comic opera by Justin Huntley McCarthy by Kay Keavney

for Macquarie radio Theatre. Summaries 2p; Script31p; Recorded trailer2p. • Lane, Richard, The Torch of Liberty. Audition script 8p. • Noonan Michael, Sir Henry Parkes. Outline, bloc scene material and plot projection10p. • Lynch William, Successful Authorship. Publicity Booklets

Artransa Presents: Jewels of Destiny. Drafts for a publicity booklet/brochure for the series devised and written by Dunn. 4p. Unidentified material. 1 folder

Documents

UQFL125 Maxwell Dunn Collection