Appointment With Fear: The Lost Episodes (1976-77)

About this film

Here is a set of BBC radio thrillers from the late 1970s that seem to be pretty rare, as I really had to hunt to find any kind of information on them. I discovered these episodes when I was digging through boxes of old radio cassettes in the garage (from my tape trading days) and I digitized them in FLAC so others can enjoy them too (even if they’re not the greatest sound quality). Appointment with Fear was a long-running BBC radio thriller that began its run in 1943 as the British version of Suspense , complete with many of the same scripts as its American counterpart (most by John Dickson Carr) and also hosted by the Man in Black. That original series ran for nine seasons, until 1955, but its mysterious host has never really left the British airwaves, returning to host Fear on 4 from 1988-1992 then The Man in Black from 2009-2011. Only four episodes from that original nine-season run are in circulation today (you can find them here in high quality audio ) but it turns out there was a very short TENTH season, when Appointment with Fear was briefly revived for a short 7-episode series that ran on the BBC from Dec, 1976 through Jan, 1977. It was produced and directed by Derek Hoddin…

Directors & creators

BBC World Service

Subjects

BBC Radio horror, price of fear, fear on four, the man in black, nightfall, vanishing point, the creaking door, beyond midnight, springbok radio, british, OTR, old time radio, suspense

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