Rafferty's Rules (radio series)

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Rafferty's Rules is a 1941 Australian radio series starring Chips Rafferty. Rafferty had just leapt to fame with a support role in the Australian film Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940). The series is significant as an early starring vehicle for Rafferty.[1][2]

Rafferty had featured on radio station 2UE in episodes of Michael Willoughby's Breakfast Session. The station gave him his own show, Rafferty's Rules which aired each Monday to Friday from 7 am. to 8 a.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 8.30 a.m.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2UE CALLING". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate. No. 4574. New South Wales, Australia. 7 May 1941. p. 10. Retrieved 18 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ A. F. Pike, 'Goffage, John William Pilbean (1909–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/goffage-john-william-pilbean-10317/text18259, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 18 March 2024.
  3. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League., "FILM STAR NOW AT 2UE", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (18 (May 3, 1941)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714880052, retrieved 18 March 2024 – via Trove
  4. ^ "JULIA'S LAMENT: BORN TOO LATE Sheds Tear As She Thinks Of Greek Gods", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 36 (19 (May 10, 1941)), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-714873848, retrieved 18 March 2024 – via Trove