Vaniishing Point


(4.3 stars; 3 reviews)

Vanishing Point pdf = Program Guide A Canadian radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio from 1984 to 1986.   Created and produced by Bill Lane, Vanishing Point was the CBC’s follow-up to Nightfall, which had instilled new life into its many regional drama centers. Like that series, Vanishing Point drew from the CBC's entire coast to coast network, gathering together the CBC's finest production, engineering, writing, and acting talent to mount one of the better radio dramas in CBC history.   While primarily a science fiction series, the anthology presented a wide range of genres including thriller, horror, detective, psychological drama, comedy and even the occasional musical. A number of episodes were adaptations of short stories from famous authors like Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl or Evelyn Waugh, but many were original plays from Canada’s top talent. Bill Lane workshopped plays from the winners of various Canadian literary competitions as a way of “reaching an audience by developing the talents of new playwrights.” Bill Lane Bill arrived at CBC Radio Drama in 1982 as a writer for the Nightfall series, and was contracted as a Producer soon afterwards, initially working as Executive Producer of Saturday Stereo Theatre. He became Executive Producer of Vanishing Point, a program he created in 1984. He has directed over 200 original plays for radio and produced over 500. He has often taught radio skills, most recently at the National Theatre School of Canada, the University of Guelph, and the Banff Centre.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

01 1984-10-05 the testing of stanley teagarden 27:07
02 1984-10-12 disappearance 28:22
03 1984-10-19 the rescue 29:46
04 1984-10-26 death and the compass 28:51
05 1984-11-02 cage of light 29:45
84-11-02 The Playground 27:19
07 1984-11-09 the baliff and the women 29:32
08 1984-11-16 the quickening 29:04
09 1984-11-23 the golden triangle 29:41
10 1984-11-30 the silenian test 30:09
Teenage Catalogue Model 30:14
12 1984-12-14 how love came to professor guildea 28:52
13 1984-12-21 the cave 30:00
14 1984-12-28 the lost door 27:35
15 1985-01-04 the blue devil 29:37
16 1985-01-11 point of departure 26:55
17 1985-01-25 skin 27:55
18 1985-02-01 phase three 29:58
19 1985-02-08 the addict 29:41
20 1985-02-15 startex b16 k 29:18
21 1985-02-22 meteor 29:35
22 1985-03-01 zeppis machine 28:38
23 1985-03-15 evaluation 30:11
24 1985-03-22 free to a good home 29:31
25 1985-03-29 uluru 29:56
26 1985-04-05 the third bank of the river 30:03
27 1985-04-12 unlived lives 30:26
28 1985-04-19 ground zero 29:54
29 1985-04-26 messages 28:21
30 1985-05-03 the shining path 30:16
31 1985-05-10 the yellow wallpaper 29:27
32 1985-05-17 the woman in black velvet 29:58
33 1985-05-24 seeing god 29:45
34 1985-09-30 the black serpent 30:31
35 1985-10-07 nightmare in rabbit city 29:00
36 1985-10-14 the enormous radio 30:29
37 1985-10-21 curse of the unnamed planet 26:45
38 1985-10-28 secret ceremony 29:58
39 1985-11-04 in the groove 29:56
40 1985-11-11 soft landscape 29:27
41 1985-11-18 the nine billion names of god 27:38
42 1985-11-25 shoot the unicorn 29:57
43 1985-12-02 the language of the flowers 29:38
44 1985-12-09 the last 30 days of charles l danforth 31:30
45 1985-12-16 past imperfect 29:40
46 1985-12-23 the counts wife 29:40
47 1985-12-30 childrens eyes 31:42
48 1986-01-06 split second 30:52
49 1986-01-13 moms home cooking 17:46
50 1986-01-20 a kissing way 30:51
51 1986-01-27 the man who liked dickens 30:15
52 1986-02-03 snow shadow area 30:07
53 1986-02-10 a small good thing 30:22
54 1986-02-17 im a stranger here myself 26:44
55 1986-02-24 looking for a quiet place 27:55
56 1986-03-03 azure blue 29:41
57 1986-03-10 antimony 30:28
58 1986-03-17 all the way 28:59
59 1986-03-24 a silent agreement 30:21
60 1986-03-31 the ultimate threshold 29:58
61 1986-05-05 the rising of the north 31:37
62 1986-05-12 death of a physicist 29:16
63 1986-05-19 a communicatable disease 30:28
64 1986-05-26 closing night 30:38
65 1986-06-02 the right one 29:59
66 1986-06-09 the doctor and the soul 30:00
67 1986-06-16 the most beautiful woman in town 29:57
68 1986-06-23 open wide 29:34
69 1986-06-30 certain distant suns 30:23

Reviews

Mind-Blowing


(5 stars)

This is one of the best radio shows I've ever heard, period. Barely a notch above Nightfall - also a Canadian radio drama production - these are incredibly well-produced, -written, and acted. Once you start listening, you won't be able to stop. Just goes to show that long after the "Golden Age" of radio, there were still top-notch radio productions being created, and an eager audience to devour them.

Wrong file


(0 stars)

https://archive.org/download/vaniishing-point/15%201985-01-04_the_blue_devil.mp3 This is copy of #14 The lost Door.

Mind blowing


(0 stars)

Thank you for your review it is much appreciated!