September 1 (1952-09-01) – December 31, 1952 (1952-12-31)
No. of series
1
No. of episodes
52
ABC Weekly 6 Sept 1952
Opal of Destiny is a 1952 Australian radio serial written by Anthony Scott Veitch and directed by Tom Farley.[1]
There were 52 episodes and the serial was recorded in advance of broadcast. It was made by the Columbia George Edwards Production Company, who had an exclusive deal with 2UW in Sydney.[2]
Premise
An ex-US naval pilot comes to Australia to start life anew and winds up in Lightning Ridge.[3]
The Daily Telegraph said "This gives a carelessly written, shoddily acted picture of an American in Paddo a poor pastiche, blotched with all the naughtiest hues of Harlem, and daubed with, some of the ruddier tints of Broadway's café-society. Let us have no more of these pallid imitations. New York and Chicago have had both gang warfare and a distinguished, if eccentric, elite. Sydney has had neither worth mentioning. If our authors wish to be nationally and authentic ally husky, let them start writing about; the Pushes."[4]
^"George Hart's Radio News". The Sun. No. 13281. 2 September 1952. p. 22 (Late Final Extra). Retrieved 19 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Around the Dial". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XVII, no. 183. New South Wales, Australia. 22 October 1952. p. 17. Retrieved 19 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
