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And now we turn to Charlie Chan.

Well, we have played all the American episodes that are available.

So now we are turning to the Australian episodes.

And I've been trying to cobble together as much information as I can on the series.

The best information I can find on series air date comes from a 2004 article in Radio Recall, the newsletter of the Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club, written by the late Ian Greve, moderator of the Australian Old Time Radio Group, and Mr. Grave states that these programs aired starting in October of

1950 from Sydney as they were syndicated by Grace Gibson. Air dates were tricky in Australia

because they didn't have like a big radio network like we had in the States,

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