VPoint


(4.6 stars; 28 reviews)

Vanishing Point is the title of a science fiction anthology series that ran on CBC Radio from 1984 until 1986, and then under a varying array of sub-titles until 1991. (Summary from Wikipedia)

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

In The Groove 29:57
VP 841005 01 The Testing of Stanley Teagarden 27:07
Vanishing Point - 002 - Disappearance 28:22
VP 841019 03 The Rescue 29:46
Death And The Compass 28:51
VP 841102 05 Cage of Light 29:45
VP 841109 07 The Baliff and the Women 29:32
VP 841116 08 The Quickening 29:04
VP 841123 09 The Golden Triangle 29:41
VP 841130 10 The Silenian Test 29:41
VP 841207 11 Teenage Catalogue Model 30:09
How Love Came To Prof. Guildea 28:52
The Cave 30:00
The Lost Door 27:35
VP 850104 15 The Blue Devil 29:37
Point Of Departure 26:55
Skin 27:55
VP 850201 18 Phase Three 29:58
VP 850208 19 The Addict 29:41
VP 850215 20 Startex B16K 29:18
VP 850222 21 Meteor 29:35
VP 850301 22 Zeppis Machine 28:38
VP 850315 23 Evaluuation 30:11
VP 850322 24 Free to a Good Home 29:31
VP 850329 25 Uluru 29:56
VP 850405 26 The Third Bank of the River 30:03
VP 850412 27 Unlived Lives 30:26
VP 850419 28 Ground Zero 29:54
VP 850426 29 Messages 28:21
VP 850503 30 The Shining Path 30:16
VP 850510 31 The Yellow Wallpaper 29:27
VP 850517 32 The Woman in Black Velvet 29:58
VP 850524 33 Seeing God 29:45
VP 850930 51 The Black Serpent 30:31
VP 851007 52 Nightmare in Rabbit City 29:00
VP 851014 53 The Enormous Radio 30:29
VP 851021 54 Curse of the Unnamed Planet 26:45
VP 851028 55 Secret Cermony 29:58
VP 851104 56 In the Groove 29:56
VP 851111 57 Soft Landscape 29:27
The Nine Billion Names Of God 27:38
VP 851125 59 Shoot the Unicorn 29:57
VP 851202 60 The Language of the Flowers 29:38
VP 851209 61 The Last 30 Days of Charles L Danforth 31:30
VP 851216 62 Past Imperfect 29:40
VP 851223 63 The Counts Wife 29:40
VP 851230 64 Childrens Eyes 31:42
VP 860106 65 Split Second 30:52
VP 860113 66 Moms Home Cooking 17:46
VP 860120 67 A Kissing Way 30:51
VP 860127 68 The Man Who Liked Dickens 30:15
VP 860203 69 Snow Shadow Area 30:07
VP 860210 70 A Small Good Thing 30:22
VP 860217 71 Im a Stranger Here Myself 26:44
VP 860224 72 Looking For A Quite Place 27:55
VP 860303 73 Azure Blue 29:41
VP 860310 74 Antimony 30:28
VP 860317 75 All the Way 28:59
VP 860324 76 A Silent Agreement 30:21
VP 860331 77 The Ultimate Threshold 29:58
VP 860505 78 The Rising of the North 31:37
VP 860512 79 Death of a Physicist 29:16
VP 860519 80 A Communicatble Disease 30:28
VP 860526 81 Closing Night 30:38
VP 860602 82 The Right One 29:59
VP 860609 83 The Doctor and the Soul 30:00
VP 860616 84 The Most Beautiful Woman Town 29:57
VP 860623 85 Open Wide 29:34
VP 860630 86 Certain Distant Suns 30:23
VP 861117 xx The Artist Of The Beautiful 29:31
VP 861124 xx Never Marry A Spider 29:27
VP 861201 xx Rappacinis Daughter 29:47
VP 861208 xx The Headless Clown 27:11
VP 861215 xx Deep Desire 29:22
VP 861222 xx Strange Child 27:37
VP 870123 xx A Few Words From Harold 27:33
VP 870130 xx Everything She Wants 29:05
Looking For A Quiet Place 28:56
VP 870213 xx Ultimate Destination 26:49
VP 870410 xx Lucky Girl 25:25
VP 870417 xx Mortal 29:51
The Dispossed - Part 1 of 6 25:39
VP 870619 xx The Dispossessed Part 2 of 6 29:43
VP 870626 xx The Dispossessed Part 3 of 6 29:37
VP 870703 xx The Dispossessed Part 4 of 6 29:53
The Dispossed - Part 5 of 6 29:56
VP 871123 xx Hair Of The Dog 29:37
VP 871130 xx The Rawhide Hour 29:36
VP 871221 xx Fleshtone 29:31
VP 871228 xx Mr Grendelton Crashes A Party 29:35
VP 880513 xx Rubber Ball 29:33
VP 880516 xx Somebody Talking to You 29:33
VP 881020 xx The Man Who Collected Women 29:33
VP 881114 xx Escapement 29:32
Dead Astronaut 29:30
VP 881127 xx King Of Another Place 29:34
VP 881128 xx Cloud Sculptors of Coral B 29:30
VP 881204 xx The Dinosar Connection 29:33
VP 881205 xx Low Flying Aircraft 29:12
VP 881212 xx A Question of Reentry 29:09
VP 881219 xx News From The Sun 29:01
VP 881226 xx Having A Wonderful Time 29:21
VP xxxxxx xx Fanta Film 29:33
VP 87-07-17 (xx) The Dispossessed - Part 6 of 6 29:25

Reviews

Going, going, gone...


(4.5 stars)

I miss this show, twas truly the last of a dying breed. Gentle listener, give this your time. You guys have GOT to straighten out the labeling though, according to your list you only have a half-dozen or so episodes that just repeat. Why in the world is it like that? And I gotta warn you, the background piano music is ridiculously loud, and at times it ruins the ambient mood.

Soooo good


(5 stars)

No cheesy overdone music, good stories well acted. Most excellent.

Great show


(5 stars)

Nicely done, some very creepy.

ABSOLUTELY, hands down, the best.


(5 stars)

I love OTR and have been collecting shows since I was a child. I have heard thousands of shows in my time, and of all them, "Vanishing Point" is hands down the very best. Second would be "Nightfall", but it wouldn't be a close race. "Vanishing point" is truly a mindf*&ker. One episode, "Snow Shadow Area", is simply the most frightening thing I have ever heard, and I played it for friends to make sure my assessment was right- all were astounded, and none of them are OTR types. Having listened to about half of them at this point, I think the episode i mentioned above is the very best, but many others are unsettling and quite strange. Not all are the very best, but worth a listen.

Missing episodes


(3 stars)

I have two episodes in mp3 form (transferred from cassette) that are not here: Alligators in the Lake and Journey to a Secret Sea.) I just got my account and maybe latter I will upload them. Also missing and I don't have copies of are: The Doctor's Casebook The Black Persian Tales of the Near Future The Man Who Thought Ian Tyson was God Childhood's End The Word for World Is Forest and an expansion of Curse of the Unnamed Planet called Adventures on the Unnamed Planet (3 more episodes). That being said; this is a good collection other than the errors other people have listed. I have just upload the two episodes I mentioned. You can get them here: https://archive.org/details/CBCRadioVanishingPoint


(2.5 stars)

I liked the show but the list is all jumbled. there's like six episodes all titled the same thing and some of them skip at about the three and a half minute mark..its getting pretty frustrating. I have used this app on an iPhone, and while I like the look and setup for the app better on my different phone, and from the Google play store, its not the same. anyway if the episodes were listed correctly and didn't have multiples and skip it would have gotten more stars

David Helwig episodes are terrific


(5 stars)

If you want to really get the Twilight Zone feel of this show, you can do no better than to start with the two episodes written by Canadian author, poet, journalist, David Helwig. My personal favorite is episode #2, The Disappearance. There is a sweet, innocent feel to the show, which slowly pulls you deeper like quicksand, perfectly counterpoised by musical interludes and seemingly random incidents. #27, the Unliving, is also creepy and hair-raising. Just love Vanishing Point!

Some audio too much bass


(5 stars)

not enough bandwidth? maybe copied from cassette? most of the audio is great though. Some reviewers missing some episodes, there's another website that has the ones listed, Im not affiliated with it in any way shape nor form, I don't think ethically I can list the actual url but it goes by a phrase "Your source for dumb stuff" and they have an old time radio section. Golden Triangle episode is there, so are some others.