I discovered this in 2005 on some site dedicated to old Horror radio drama. The Peoria Plague still haunts me. And despite being audio, I’ve retained vivid images in my head from this story, especially the hospital!
I live in Peoria,have for 37 years. I have never heard of this until i stumbled across this just now and it is freakin awesome! Just shared on Facebook and it is about to blow up
I'm from Peoria too! I'm going to try and hunt down more of these awesome radio broadcasts! If you all know of any others please let me know or put them up
I use to listen to radio plays like this when I was a kid, before the internet, video, etc... A local college radio station would play these... Scarey stuff... Radio the theater of the mind...
I am so glad that I was introduced to old radio programs by my mother (who has since gone Home). This one was superbly done and like so many others, gives me the chills when I sit back, close my eyes, and let the Theater of the Mind take over.
This is the first audio drama i have ever heard, and it's my favorite! I hate how its so under the covers and unknown though. All we really know is that its from WUHN Radio in 1972... that's it.. I really wanted to know the radio host's name - he did a great job!
Atomic Wolf Too bad bottled water wasn't widely available in 1972, beyond carbonated or jugs of room-temperature distilled water, that was sold in drug stores or supermarkets. Back then, there wasn't much of a market for what most people at the time thought should be free, like television. Few had cable TV, and it's availability was very sparse. I was born in 1968 in Pontiac, MI, a Detroit suburb, and what was known as ON TV didn't exist until 1979.
Atomic Wolf I have a modest collection of old time radio shows. Included in it are (naturally) the War Of The Worlds radio show by Orson Welles and another absolute essential to such a collection, the Shadow.
@@williamnorton9547 , you shout try a show call "suspense" and also the "green hornet" as well as "Nick Carter, master detective" all of these are my in my top 5
@@williamnorton9547, right on. Hey man, I'm just curious about how old are you? The reason I ask is I wonder if you listened as a kid or if you are like me, and discovered this wonderful form of entrainment recently.
George Romero made Night if the Living Dead in 1968, this was recorded in 1972. I wonder how much of an influence he had...? R.I.P. George, you were born to change the world, well done.
Would love some more background on this... who put it together? What was the reaction? Was there any publicity beforehand or was this just intended to sucker punch the entire audience? Welles' triumphant Halloween gag is justifiably world-famous, but this gem is unjustifiably forgotten...
Davin Gladwell I'm often chomping at the bit for ChillySunshine to upload an episode of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, not just for the story, but he also digs up appropriate artwork for each story. I asked him NOT to use any artwork related to "Little Shop of Horrors" for the episode The Vampire Plant.
hey, far out, the broadcaster is using real street names and old hosp. names so far. I live about 40 mins north of Peoria. I don't remember this radio program but in around the 80's ,, 78, 79 80 81. 2 a station from Chicago had a program they aired like this one called mystery theater. I think it was wbbm on the AM dial, Listened everytime it was on,,, for the 10 minutes I was awake for then missed the rest cause I fell to sleep, Came on bit late, like 11pm. Some ppl are interested about this, theres a website called museum of broadcast history I believe is the name. It is also in Chicago. You could most likely find the names of the people you were looking for at that site or go in person to the museum. They have archives of old TV and Radio plus all the local stuff from just about every city in the states. Only one I ever hear of and lots of dedicated people put in many hours to make that place a real gem if your interested in the old things before instant everything.
Check out the radio play for Pontypool. Just like the movie. Can't find the actual audiobook for it though. If u listen to it how does it compare to this?
Kaleidoscope is likely a reference to the album "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations" by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. The version of Scarborough Fair is definitely by Gershon Kingsley. It was originally on his album "Music to Moog By", but was also included on KV. Although the chosen songs sound very much like muzak, Perrey and Kingsley were early pioneers in electronic music. Kingsley wrote "Popcorn", which was covered by Hot Butter and charted all over the world, in 1972. I am not sure where the version of "Son of a Preacher Man" comes from or who it is by.
Hey MegaDude! What is your source for this copy of The Peoria Plague? Is it true that this radio dramatization is public domain? I'm trying to locate the original source of this so called "copy of a copy" to try to find any production history on this work. Any info would be helpful. Thanks
That's a perfect analogy, haha! I've been a fan of this production for a lonnnng time and know every word and I've never thought about the Plan 9-ish aspect of it, in wonderful amateurishness as well as total sincerity and enthusiasm. Well observed, my friend.
DO you have any more information on it. Scleris? This is my favourite piece of radio drama too and I would love to know more about who made it. It would be fantastic of a cleaner copy emerged one day.
YIKES! Hella scary....the static at the end really made me uncomfortable. Walking Dead is a cartoon compared to this. The scariest things aren't what we're shown but what we conjure in our own mind %^[``````
First off ty for the upload. Second.... It’s not sooo scary. The news broadcast from *Dawn Of The Dead* reboot & the horror reading creepy pastas *Persuaded and The Black Fog* are scarier then this. However, I’d agree if *The Peoria Plague* was rebooted and done to modern day standards. 😒
I wonder if the increasing static towards the end was intentional to represent the degradation of events. Its creepy when you have to listen harder to understand what they say and can only pick out parts. You can generally understand what’s going on but feel helpless to control it the quality of the transmission. It’s even demonstrated when they would intentionally play recordings that were garbled because it serves to shroud the facts they were attempting to “report” with mystery, thereby increasing the horror factor.
I guess you gotta live here in smelly old dark secrets Peoria to truly understand the Awesomeness of this piece of Art...man BU playing Son of a Preacher man.. (hafta know Peoria in the 70's to understand the reference) Didn't realize how hippie peo was.. I was punk..bad times were punk.. sorry Great radio fun.. thank You
nylrob No idea. You can be sure that they put out warnings that they were gonna do that broadcast days, maybe even weeks before zero hour, just like the troops at WKBW did before they did their own adaptation of the War Of The Worlds radio show.
Gideon Helmsley Good for you. Some time ago I heard a radio adaptation of Night of the Living Dead. My opinion on it; The cast best keep their day jobs. (I say the same thing to those who try to duplicate Dr Pepper after tasting their product)
Its funny that the only reason i even know about this is because i heard it playing on the Teky Halloween radio prop. This...THIS...was playing on a prop... Glad i know what its called now though, and glad i found it again.
I wish someone would make a radio drama/simulated newscast about "what if a COVID-19-like pandemic became an 'extinction-level event'?" Now, THAT would REALLY be scary!
WUHN the station that did this drama was a "beautiful music" station at the time so they were presenting this drama in the context of their regular station programming format.
What a brilliant treat! It seems like a missing link between Jack Finney's novel, "The Body Snatcher's," aka "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and several other sci-fi/horror zombie like films such as "28 Days Later." I'm sure that some of you can come up with other, similar stories that came before or after this vintage '72 bit of ear candy.
The Last Man on Earth (1964) is a criminally underrated apocalyptic epic starring Vincent Price himself. It's in the public domain. I recommend the Hell out of it. It clearly inspired Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Vatsala काली Jhaveri Like Night of the Living Dead, it was based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. It was also the only vampire movie the Master of the Macabre starred in and the creatures appeared to be more like "lucid zombies": they are slow and have poor coordination, but the majority of their mental faculties are intact, enabling them to wield blunt instruments and one of them even spoke. "Morgan! Come out!"
@116509912649709997646 Not to mention the ORIGINAL "Battlestar Galactica" (which was, according to one TV commercial (at that time, in 1978) for a (well known) tabloid newspaper, "TV's answer to 'Star Wars'")!
caimbus Funny you should mention The Six Million Dollar Man: when I was a kid I got creeped out by the "Death probe" Colonel Austin fought. A year or so back I saw that episode for the first time in years and thought "That piece of junk creeped me out as a kid?!" Naturally some time after I first saw it I became familiar with similar things which were smaller, stronger, smarter and of course, deadlier than that probe. "Who or what were they?", you may ask. Who else? The Daleks.
@@williamnorton9547No, I think the CYLONS from (both (the Larson (1978) and Moore (2003-09)) versions of) "Battlestar Galactica" are far deadlier than ANY other machine race in THE UNIVERSE! Hmm, I wonder who would win in a fight, Daleks or Cylons?
As an 11th grade HS student in 68 - 69, our HS Lit teacher gave each of us an assignment to create one of these type (open ended) assignments to create on a reel to reel or cassette tape. Some of us enacted "Stairway to Heaven" as Disney would have cartooned it, some did a standard radio show, a few did our own Dark Shadow Series. I just thought that she wanted to take about 4 weeks off from teacher so that each of us could play our "masterpieces" before the class. Grade was based upon class reaction.
I loved this!! Even during “apocalypse”, the public announcers were much more composed and civil back then. Not to mention, people seemed far more intelligent.
I have to come back and enjoy this every so often. Yes I have it in a number of audio files and devices and can listen to it pretty much at will almost anywhere I go, but I like coming here too, for some reason, no idea. I think from the first time I ever heard this, I was a little creeped by the instrumental muzak arrangement of Scarborough Faire played at the beginning of 'Kaleidoscope'. The other songs (Son of a Preacher Man and Mrs Robinson) are dated and funky and I've come to love them after so many listens, but for some reason that first one is always a little disturbing to me, like a kind of omen or, I don't know. Spooky. But I have to say, that the woman whose name sounds to me like 'Mim Lorgan'? is just really... really bad. I'm sorry, no offense to her personally of course, but she really is the only voice actor in this whole thing who isn't remotely competent let alone effective. The rest of the cast are all pretty damned great actually, they understand the show they're putting on and they play it well... but poor 'Mim' is just... not good. She fares alright with her first report announcing the mayor's impending statement, but from the moment she asks her question to the mayor, she just becomes a high school play actress. From her over-read and stumbled lines, even her outright incompetence in expressing what she reads ("...and since that time there's been chaos and civil disorder of the greater magnitude imaginable."?!?) to her wonderful emoting in her last report ("I don't know HOW much more I can TAKE of this! Has the whole WORLD gone MAD?!?"), she's just wonderfully amateur. :)
Besides having an audio file of this and your music you might as well have PDF’s of essential books. If I may suggest *The SAS Survival Handbook* because it’s a great to have if the crap hits the fan!
Zombies better not try this in Texas or Indiana. Their Citizens are so heavily armed, the Zombozo's would be wiped out quickly. Better than a day at the range and a fun, target rich environment ensures enjoyment for all.
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“A respiratory disorder of unknown origin.”
Well, that line cuts deep in 2021.
Recorded in Peoria, Illinois, my hometown the year before I was born. Thank you for posting this, what a treat!
Lucky you, mist it by nine months !;-)
Starts slow..gets intense quite abruptly. Chilling in its slow descent into mayhem. A forgotten masterpiece.
I discovered this in 2005 on some site dedicated to old Horror radio drama. The Peoria Plague still haunts me. And despite being audio, I’ve retained vivid images in my head from this story, especially the hospital!
Any other radio dramas like this that you know of? I have a playlist with things like this and I want to add more
I had no idea this masterpiece even existed. Thanks for posting this👍
Absolutely superb. It really gets your mind seeing what's happening, you're living it. One of the best I've ever heard to date.
I live in Peoria,have for 37 years. I have never heard of this until i stumbled across this just now and it is freakin awesome! Just shared on Facebook and it is about to blow up
braiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I'm from Peoria too! I'm going to try and hunt down more of these awesome radio broadcasts! If you all know of any others please let me know or put them up
Me too..since birth 67..loved public radio Sunday theater.. but never heard this! Love it!
So...did it blow up?
I just shared it on my Everything HORROR Facebook group.
Good fun. Love the how the announcer is merely befuddled and mildly nonplussed every time one of his reporters dies violently while on the air...
I'm here for Kaleidoscope.
I really wish I could find the songs used, I know the original songs I’m looking for the covers used
@@hellraiserx44any luck?
@ unfortunately no, I for the life of me can not find the original recordings of these songs
This was the best one, I've listened to it twice already while writing an essay for English!
I use to listen to radio plays like this when I was a kid, before the internet, video, etc...
A local college radio station would play these...
Scarey stuff...
Radio the theater of the mind...
You lived before the internet? Woah, dude!
I am so glad that I was introduced to old radio programs by my mother (who has since gone Home). This one was superbly done and like so many others, gives me the chills when I sit back, close my eyes, and let the Theater of the Mind take over.
@16:55 - "Carl LaFong reports..." LOL, I detect a W.C. Fields fan on the writing staff.
Jack? Jack? Can you get me some water? LMFAO!!!
I really loved this, I can actually visualize what's happening. I also used to work in the ER so I can also imagine what the hospital was like.
Had no idea this existed. Great stuff! Thank you!
This is the first audio drama i have ever heard, and it's my favorite! I hate how its so under the covers and unknown though. All we really know is that its from WUHN Radio in 1972... that's it..
I really wanted to know the radio host's name - he did a great job!
Atomic Wolf Too bad bottled water wasn't widely available in 1972, beyond carbonated or jugs of room-temperature distilled water, that was sold in drug stores or supermarkets. Back then, there wasn't much of a market for what most people at the time thought should be free, like television. Few had cable TV, and it's availability was very sparse. I was born in 1968 in Pontiac, MI, a Detroit suburb, and what was known as ON TV didn't exist until 1979.
Atomic Wolf
I have a modest collection of old time radio shows.
Included in it are (naturally) the War Of The Worlds radio show by Orson Welles and another absolute essential to such a collection, the Shadow.
@@williamnorton9547 , you shout try a show call "suspense" and also the "green hornet" as well as "Nick Carter, master detective" all of these are my in my top 5
@@WalkerBait
I've been listening to Suspense, the Green Hornet and Nick Carter: Master Detective for a while now.
@@williamnorton9547, right on. Hey man, I'm just curious about how old are you? The reason I ask is I wonder if you listened as a kid or if you are like me, and discovered this wonderful form of entrainment recently.
George Romero made Night if the Living Dead in 1968, this was recorded in 1972. I wonder how much of an influence he had...? R.I.P. George, you were born to change the world, well done.
Let's put it this way, without him there wouldn't be zombies
Would love some more background on this... who put it together? What was the reaction? Was there any publicity beforehand or was this just intended to sucker punch the entire audience? Welles' triumphant Halloween gag is justifiably world-famous, but this gem is unjustifiably forgotten...
I am still trying! Lol
I'm a fan of this type of radio drama, and I wanted to know if there are other recordings available. Thanks.
one of the best audio dramas I have ever heard!!
WHY IS THERE ADS ON THIS?!?!
Fun while it lasted 🙄
It would be great if someone restored or remastered this show.
This seems like a precursor to CBS Radio Mystery Theater which ran from 1974 to 1982.
Davin Gladwell
I'm often chomping at the bit for ChillySunshine to upload an episode of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, not just for the story, but he also digs up appropriate artwork for each story. I asked him NOT to use any artwork related to "Little Shop of Horrors" for the episode The Vampire Plant.
Davin Gladwell ...and THAT CBS show was produced by the guy responsible for earlier radio fright shows like Inner Sanctum...
William Norton they're all available online... check Internet Archive's Wayback Machine...
hey, far out, the broadcaster is using real street names and old hosp. names so far. I live about 40 mins north of Peoria. I don't remember this radio program but in around the 80's ,, 78, 79 80 81. 2 a station from Chicago had a program they aired like this one called mystery theater.
I think it was wbbm on the AM dial, Listened everytime it was on,,, for the 10 minutes I was awake for then missed the rest cause I fell to sleep, Came on bit late, like 11pm.
Some ppl are interested about this, theres a website called museum of broadcast history I believe is the name. It is also in Chicago.
You could most likely find the names of the people you were looking for at that site or go in person to the museum. They have archives of old TV and Radio plus all the local stuff from just about every city in the states. Only one I ever hear of and lots of dedicated people put in many hours to make that place a real gem if your interested in the old things before instant everything.
They need to do more like this
Wow! Thanks for posting!
Still by far one of my favourite radio plays
Check out the radio play for Pontypool. Just like the movie. Can't find the actual audiobook for it though. If u listen to it how does it compare to this?
Absolutely brilliant
Kaleidoscope is likely a reference to the album "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations" by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. The version of Scarborough Fair is definitely by Gershon Kingsley. It was originally on his album "Music to Moog By", but was also included on KV.
Although the chosen songs sound very much like muzak, Perrey and Kingsley were early pioneers in electronic music. Kingsley wrote "Popcorn", which was covered by Hot Butter and charted all over the world, in 1972.
I am not sure where the version of "Son of a Preacher Man" comes from or who it is by.
btw... Peoria was the radio capitol of the world in the 50"s
menudo666 who'd a'thunk it?
Hey MegaDude! What is your source for this copy of The Peoria Plague? Is it true that this radio dramatization is public domain? I'm trying to locate the original source of this so called "copy of a copy" to try to find any production history on this work. Any info would be helpful. Thanks
The best part is the old songs I haven't heard in 20 or 30 years! I'd forgotten them.
Such a cool genre of radio!
Loved this so much I listened to it twice
One of if not the best Zombie radio drama.
Neato. This was great. Night of the Living Dead meets Plan 9 from Outer Space.
That's a perfect analogy, haha! I've been a fan of this production for a lonnnng time and know every word and I've never thought about the Plan 9-ish aspect of it, in wonderful amateurishness as well as total sincerity and enthusiasm. Well observed, my friend.
DO you have any more information on it. Scleris?
This is my favourite piece of radio drama too and I would love to know more about who made it.
It would be fantastic of a cleaner copy emerged one day.
Ed Wood would be proud
I live in Illinois I am surprised to hear this wish there was someone who could do a video adaptation of this
Wish the sound quality on this was a little clearer, feel like im missing half the story
Thumbs up if you are watching in 2016
Fuzzy Fazzbear 2017
2018! (do not open until January 1st, 2018)
November 8, 2021
"We return you to Kaleidoscope with all royality free copies of the latest hits"
Interesting look back in time, and in the tradition of War of the Worlds. It’s amazing how engaging radio is/was.
When your ad interrupts my video, it makes me hate your product.
You said it, bro!
This is amazing. Could do with re-mastering by someone with those skills at some point, but worth a listen even as is.
The degraded condition is part of the charm.
I agree with the other person, part of the appeal. It’s like audio film grain.
@@ZiddersRooFurrygod yes. Especially the kaleidoscope segments
Anybody else listening to this during Covid 19 lockdown😷
No I never obeyed I went hiking
Love the music 👌
YIKES! Hella scary....the static at the end really made me uncomfortable. Walking Dead is a cartoon compared to this. The scariest things aren't what we're shown but what we conjure in our own mind %^[``````
Awesome name, thanks for supporting Peoria radio
I 10000% agree
First off ty for the upload. Second.... It’s not sooo scary. The news broadcast from *Dawn Of The Dead* reboot & the horror reading creepy pastas *Persuaded and The Black Fog* are scarier then this. However, I’d agree if *The Peoria Plague* was rebooted and done to modern day standards. 😒
@@thekingofwaffles8403 the dawn of the dead remake radio broadcast is barely a thing and the Black Fog is nothing compared to the horrors found within
@@DashingPunkSamurai Well, It's my opinion.... And I have my reasons for it. You don't have to agree with it. But, You have to *respect* it.
Can anyone tell me the song at 7:00? Absolute banger
Son of a Preacher Man.
So awesome! So real too.
That music is so awesome I love it
I wonder if the increasing static towards the end was intentional to represent the degradation of events. Its creepy when you have to listen harder to understand what they say and can only pick out parts. You can generally understand what’s going on but feel helpless to control it the quality of the transmission. It’s even demonstrated when they would intentionally play recordings that were garbled because it serves to shroud the facts they were attempting to “report” with mystery, thereby increasing the horror factor.
This is a masterpiece.
Wow. I'm an otr freak and I've never heard of this. Thanks!
Any HQ ver?
As someone who lives near Peoria, how have I never heard of this before?
I guess you gotta live here in smelly old dark secrets Peoria
to truly understand the Awesomeness of this piece of Art...man BU playing Son of a Preacher man.. (hafta know Peoria in the 70's to understand the reference)
Didn't realize how hippie peo was.. I was punk..bad times were punk.. sorry Great radio fun.. thank You
THIS
SOUNDS
EXACTLY
FROM. 1972,
Fantastic. !!!!!!
Scarborough Fair, Son of a Preacher Man, Mrs. Robinson--good tunes!
I used to live in Springfield, visited Peoria often! I’m really surprised I’d never heard of this
This enables me to be into project zomboid. Thanks a lot!
Yes! It's very PZ
Is this free to sample?
Can barely hear part of the second half; too muffled and the volume is too low.
This was very good. Felt intense like the last broadcast
Were there any reports of this being mistaken for areal news broadcast like WotW?
nylrob
No idea. You can be sure that they put out warnings that they were gonna do that broadcast days, maybe even weeks before zero hour, just like the troops at WKBW did before they did their own adaptation of the War Of The Worlds radio show.
Wow! I really liked this!
So was this the first zombie media to catch on after Night of the Living Dead?? It was only 4 years previously....
Really good, shame there’s advertising every 60 seconds
The Horror returns to Peoria.
The radio format makes the story even more creepy.
While working patient transport one night...I received a message on my pager to transport a body to the morgue....😳
It was a typo 👌🏾
That sounds like Burgess Meredith narrating it o.0
Superb
Gov. Paul Simon. lol. I can't even imagine what that'd be like.
Paul Simon was governor of Illinois back years ago,, Always wore a bow tie.
He was never Governor, he was a US Senator.
NOT the same Paul Simon who sang "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," lol.
Even funnier when you consider that one of the songs played on Kaleidoscope is a version of Mrs. Robinson
@@andrewthorne3570, and "Scarborough Fair"! I'm wondering if there was some subliminal Simon message in this...;)
This is so awesome! I run an RPG called "The End of the World: Zombie Apocalypse". I plan on using this in my game one of these sessions.
Gideon Helmsley
Good for you. Some time ago I heard a radio adaptation of Night of the Living Dead. My opinion on it; The cast best keep their day jobs. (I say the same thing to those who try to duplicate Dr Pepper after tasting their product)
How did it go?
If I may suggest listening to the horror reading creepy pastas *Persuaded* and *The Black Fog* might give you some ideas.
EVEN the Disc jockey was contaminated
God help them all
BUT THAT'S ONLY
A STORY RITE ?
HMMMMM. ???
Or is it?????
DUM! DUM! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome!
This is well done...
Its funny that the only reason i even know about this is because i heard it playing on the Teky Halloween radio prop. This...THIS...was playing on a prop...
Glad i know what its called now though, and glad i found it again.
I live in the Research Triangle here in North Carolina. If I heard this from Durham... I'd shit my pants
I wish someone would make a radio drama/simulated newscast about "what if a COVID-19-like pandemic became an 'extinction-level event'?" Now, THAT would REALLY be scary!
Holy crap I love this!
Gotta admit, the muzak is just as horrifying as the subject matter.I guess the wanted to see if "it would play in Peoria". Not so much, I guess.
WUHN the station that did this drama was a "beautiful music" station at the time so they were presenting this drama in the context of their regular station programming format.
What a brilliant treat! It seems like a missing link between Jack Finney's novel, "The Body Snatcher's," aka "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and several other sci-fi/horror zombie like films such as "28 Days Later." I'm sure that some of you can come up with other, similar stories that came before or after this vintage '72 bit of ear candy.
The Last Man on Earth (1964) is a criminally underrated apocalyptic epic starring Vincent Price himself. It's in the public domain. I recommend the Hell out of it. It clearly inspired Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Vatsala काली Jhaveri
Like Night of the Living Dead, it was based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
It was also the only vampire movie the Master of the Macabre starred in and the creatures appeared to be more like "lucid zombies": they are slow and have poor coordination, but the majority of their mental faculties are intact, enabling them to wield blunt instruments and one of them even spoke.
"Morgan! Come out!"
Night of the Living Dead and War of the Worlds are the most likely influences here.
zombies are over running the city - and now, back to calypso : )
Should I be concerned that Illinois is having a zombie outbreak due to aliens just 1 state over. Great drama
Great play, just wondering how they might do it today, if they could fool everyone by doing it on the net, would be fun seeing it
Is this where the crazies originated from?
Anyone can make a better copy?
Just ONE word: WOW! :-o
agreed such quality for something so old
@116509912649709997646
Not to mention the ORIGINAL "Battlestar Galactica" (which was, according to one TV commercial (at that time, in 1978) for a (well known) tabloid newspaper, "TV's answer to 'Star Wars'")!
Also, you know, the greatest horror movies ever made. That's worth mentioning.
caimbus
Funny you should mention The Six Million Dollar Man: when I was a kid I got creeped out by the "Death probe" Colonel Austin fought. A year or so back I saw that episode for the first time in years and thought "That piece of junk creeped me out as a kid?!"
Naturally some time after I first saw it I became familiar with similar things which were smaller, stronger, smarter and of course, deadlier than that probe. "Who or what were they?", you may ask.
Who else? The Daleks.
@@williamnorton9547No, I think the CYLONS from (both (the Larson (1978) and Moore (2003-09)) versions of) "Battlestar Galactica" are far deadlier than ANY other machine race in THE UNIVERSE! Hmm, I wonder who would win in a fight, Daleks or Cylons?
As an 11th grade HS student in 68 - 69, our HS Lit teacher gave each of us an assignment to create one of these type (open ended) assignments to create on a reel to reel or cassette tape. Some of us enacted "Stairway to Heaven" as Disney would have cartooned it, some did a standard radio show, a few did our own Dark Shadow Series. I just thought that she wanted to take about 4 weeks off from teacher so that each of us could play our "masterpieces" before the class. Grade was based upon class reaction.
"Stairway" came out in '71. Which high school? I went to Limestone.
I loved this!! Even during “apocalypse”, the public announcers were much more composed and civil back then. Not to mention, people seemed far more intelligent.
you have to remember, it's fiction.
It's a work of fiction...
radio station did do this more often
class
This is kinda like 1938 radio play of war of the world
This is neat
Is it just me or is the main announcer Burgess Meredith?
Yeah, prob not but it did make me wonder. Shame there's not much more information about it out there.
I have to come back and enjoy this every so often. Yes I have it in a number of audio files and devices and can listen to it pretty much at will almost anywhere I go, but I like coming here too, for some reason, no idea. I think from the first time I ever heard this, I was a little creeped by the instrumental muzak arrangement of Scarborough Faire played at the beginning of 'Kaleidoscope'. The other songs (Son of a Preacher Man and Mrs Robinson) are dated and funky and I've come to love them after so many listens, but for some reason that first one is always a little disturbing to me, like a kind of omen or, I don't know. Spooky.
But I have to say, that the woman whose name sounds to me like 'Mim Lorgan'? is just really... really bad. I'm sorry, no offense to her personally of course, but she really is the only voice actor in this whole thing who isn't remotely competent let alone effective. The rest of the cast are all pretty damned great actually, they understand the show they're putting on and they play it well... but poor 'Mim' is just... not good. She fares alright with her first report announcing the mayor's impending statement, but from the moment she asks her question to the mayor, she just becomes a high school play actress. From her over-read and stumbled lines, even her outright incompetence in expressing what she reads ("...and since that time there's been chaos and civil disorder of the greater magnitude imaginable."?!?) to her wonderful emoting in her last report ("I don't know HOW much more I can TAKE of this! Has the whole WORLD gone MAD?!?"), she's just wonderfully amateur. :)
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He was probably saying "Lynn Morgan".
My ears have played tricks on me many times.
Besides having an audio file of this and your music you might as well have PDF’s of essential books. If I may suggest *The SAS Survival Handbook* because it’s a great to have if the crap hits the fan!
@@williamnorton9547 Yes, either "Lyn" or "Lynn(e)" Morgan.
Yeah, she sounds completely phony. She sticks out badly.
that was good
This would be a situation where the government might nuke the place ( Peoria )
Zombies better not try this in Texas or Indiana. Their Citizens are so heavily armed, the Zombozo's would be wiped out quickly. Better than a day at the range and a fun, target rich environment ensures enjoyment for all.