Pub-emptying, appointment to view, sci-fi television event of the era with bravura scary effects from Desmond Briscoe
Continue Reading 22nd December 1958 – Quatermass and the Pit broadcast (BBC tv)
An early incarnation of Major Bloodnok’s stomach
Continue Reading 20th January 1959 – The Goon Show – The Call of The West broadcast
Following almost a year after their first television job (see Amphitryon 38, March 1958) Desmond is now teamed up with Maddalena Fagandini (with assistance form Dick Mills) for Outside, which may also be their first documentary.
Continue Reading 19th February 1959 – ‘Outside’ broadcast (BBC tv)
“The staff in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at work, as the experimental broadcast Private Dreams and Public Nightmares is recorded.” (re-recorded)
Continue Reading 13th November 1962 – World Of Sound broadcast (BBC tv)
AKA Moments of Terror. The first edition – No Such Thing as a Vampire – of a new horror anthology series, with suitably unsettling title music by Dick Mills.
Continue Reading 19th April 1968 – Late Night Horror broadcast (BBC Two)