| Edmund Conquest and the Pirates of the Barbary Coast | |
| Format: | drama serial |
| Runtime: | 15 mins |
| Start Time: | 7.30 pm |
| End Time: | 7.45 pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2UE |
| Starring: | Leonard Teale Muriel Steinbeck |
| Producer: | Paul Jacklin |
| Narrated: | Kevin Brennan |
| Record Location: | Sydney |
| First Aired: | January 1947 |
| Num Series: | 1 |
Edmund Conquest and the Pirates of the Barbary Coast is a 1947 Australian radio serial. It aired Monday to Thursday nights.[1]
The serial was the idea of producer Paul Jacklin. He had visited the US to research broadcasting trends, noticed several shows revolved around "sex and sadism" and decided to make something similar in Australia. He hired writer Kathleen Carroll to script the series. It was the first serial leading role for Leonard Thiele and the first serial written by Carroll.[2]
The serial played again in 1953.
Sccording to ABC Weekly "Edmund Conquest, an Englishman, sets out with his servant, Jeremy, to find adventure, and, sailing through the Mediterranean, they are captured by Barbarossa, king of the Barbary Coast pirates. Conquest finds all the adventure he wants—the love of a beautiful Algerian princess, wars in the bleak mountains behind Algiers, hairsbreadth escapes from death. "
Smith's Weekly called it "a curious little serial containing the most impressive opening theme-music, the most interesting situations, and the most uncomfortable, dialogue I have heard for many a month."[4]