| The Mary Jane | |
| Format: | drama serial |
| Runtime: | 30 mins |
| Start Time: | 8.30pm |
| End Time: | 9pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2FC |
| Syndicates: | ABC |
| Director: | Max Afford |
| Record Location: | Sydney |
| First Aired: | 7 February 1954[1] |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 9 |
The Mary Jane is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Henry and Beatrice Howlett. It was directed by Max Afford.
The Howletts were farmers with extensive experience in radio. They researched the scripts by travelling in a truck along the Murray River interviewing people.[2]
Life on the Murray River in the 1880s.[3] According to ABC Weekly "he Mary Jane is owned by old Brummy, an easy-going Cockney, who is happy to make a reason-able living from carrying freight up and down the river. He has a daughter, Belle, who is engaged to a member of his crew, Jami£ Burns, an ambitious young man who hopes to own a whole fleet of ships. A rival paddle steamer is run by the Stever family. In' a race an engine explodes, and one of the Stever sons is killed. Old. man Stever viciously blames Brummy, and determines to run him off the river. "