''Chips'' is a 1952 Australian radio drama series starring
Chips Rafferty
John William Pilbean Goffage MBE (26 March 190927 May 1971), known professionally as Chips Rafferty, was an Australian actor. Called "the living symbol of the typical Australian", Rafferty's career stretched from the late 1930s until he died i ...
. It is not to be confused with his earlier series ''The Sundowner'' although it too was an outback adventure series.
Many episodes were written by
Lee Robinson who was then still working for the Department of Information Film Unit. The series began the collaboration between Robinson and Rafferty that would lead to their feature films starting with ''
The Phantom Stockman''.
John Reeve produced.
A party to launch it was held in September 1951.
Cast
*Chips Rafferty
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Charles Tingwell
Charles William Tingwell AM (3 January 1923 – 15 May 2009), known professionally as Bud Tingwell or Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, was an Australian actor. One of the veterans of Australian film, he acted in his first motion picture in 1946 and we ...
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Ossie Wenban
*Rosemary Miller
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Alan White
*Frank Ransome
*Grant Taylor
*Guy Doleman
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Rod Taylor
Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including '' Young Cassidy'' (1965), '' Nobody Runs Forever'' (1968), '' The Train Robbers'' (1973), and '' A Matt ...
References
{{Lee Robinson
1952 Australian radio dramas