Tag: broadcast
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19th April 1968 – Late Night Horror broadcast (BBC Two)
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.
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30th July 1967 – Host Planet Earth broadcast (Light Programme)
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Clive Webster’s time to shine. “A new discovery enables space craft to visit distant regions of the universe within weeks instead of years. But while the dummy run is in progress a mysterious outbreak of illness, sometimes fatal, occurs among the scientists concerned.” Electronic sound and music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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5th January 1963 – The Chem Lab Mystery broadcast (BBC tv)
In the same Saturday teatime slot soon to be filled by another children’s sci-if serial with Radiophonic music, The Chem Lab Mystery was a school-based serial with alchemy as the central riddle. Maddalena Fagandini created the theme.
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16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)
Desmond Briscoe with a fanfare for “A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold”. The book’s full title is The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician from 1883.
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13th May 1960 – The Grandeur That Was Rome broadcast (BBC tv)
AKA The Splendour… Phil Young provides the theme music
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22nd December 1958 – Quatermass and the Pit broadcast (BBC tv)
Pub-emptying, appointment to view, sci-fi television event of the era with bravura scary effects from Desmond Briscoe
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2nd March 1958 – Television World Theatre presents: Amphitryon 38* broadcast (BBC tv)
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And before the Radiophonic Workshop has even opened its doors it gains its first television credit. Daphne Oram provides effects for a British production of a French take on a Roman play.