The Slide


(4.5 stars; 3 reviews)

A seven-part BBC science fiction serial by Victor Pemberton. A earthquake opens up a huge fissure in the new town of Redlow in Kent. Then a mysterious mud begins to ooze out, and animals and birds begin to mysteriously die. On the instructions of the dominating Minister of Parliament Hugh Deverill, seismologist Josef Gomez is called in to examine the continuing earth tremors. But the effects of the oozing mud are having a strange effect on people, and Professor Gomez and his team's findings begin to reveal a terrifying fact ... that there is a lethal intelligence in the mud itself and if not stopped the human race may be in danger of extermination!  Hugh Deverill, MP ... Maurice Denham Professor Josef Gomez ... Roger Delgado Dr. Ken Richards ... David Spenser Anna Deverill ... Marion Mathie Mrs. Wilson ... Miriam Margolyes Inspector Baxter ... Geoffrey Matthews Sergeant Johnson ... Wilfred Babbage Professor Lambert ...Rolf Lefebvre Professor Lippert ... Allan McClelland Janet Marshall ... Elisabeth Proud "Tug" Wilson ... Stephen Jack Constable/First Journalist/Pilot ... Anthony Jackson RAF Corporal ... Anthony Hall Mrs. Luke ... Noel Hood Nursing Sister ... Eva Haddon Newscaster/AC2 Gibbons ... Nigel Graham Sorenson ... Fraser Kerr Nurse ... Patricia Leventon Dr. Robeson ... Michael Kilgarriff Second Journalist ... Hector Ross Third Journalist/Policeman/Ground Control ... Brian Hewlett American Journalist ... Peter Marinker Vicar ... Noel Howlett Margaret Griffiths, MP ... Joan Matheson TV Interviewer ... Henry Stamper Special Sound Effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by John Tydeman Broadcast on the BBC Light Programme 13 February - 27 March 1966

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.