Outbreak of Fear (1982) by R.D. Wingfield
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2023
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A very nice sci-fi horror serial from the early 1980s, Outbreak of Fear is of particular interest because of its superficial resemblance to the BBC TV show The Nightmare Man from the year before. However, Doctor Who fans will likely also be tickled by the presence of a character played by Nicholas Courtney; little hints suggest that he may in fact be The Brigadier (Courtney's character from Doctor Who), but of course it certainly isn't confirmed...
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The one play I listen to a few times a year and never get bored of.
Brilliant xxx
Thank you.like others I never tire of listening to r d wingfield
Great playwright - he and Peter Whaley are my favourites 😊
Agreed
I agree!
Well! ,that was utterly gripping, which isn't something I say very often.
Brilliant. Just brilliant
Lost count if the number of times I've listened to this play, is it my imagination or care there more details in this version?
As someone said that they lost count how many times they have listened to this play :
WELL, MY FRIEND
YOUR NOT THE
ONLY. ONE
Absolutely brilliant 🤩
I commented on somebody else's page a couple years ago on my old account before it got hacked when this was doing the rounds that they found the best audio of it I'd ever heard, but you outdid them, you caught the little extra things other people missed, like when he says I'm at the carter house at the 1:23:00 mark roughly which others failed to capture for some reason. Been listening to this again and again for 2 years or so when I see it doing the rounds before they eventually get removed for what ever reason.
Discovered it by accident. The audio is way ahead of it's time in my opinion, I used to love listening to this in my studio after a session on my recording system before my 2 main speakers blew up.
I'm glad you enjoy it so much, though I can't claim any credit. I first heard this show on somebody's web page, and it was taken from an old off-air analogue recording, likely from the same source as the ones you've heard previously. However, in more recent years BBC radio have repeated the series, which is why such a good quality recording was available when I uploaded this. I can find a charm in old off-air recordings but needless to say I'd rather hear it in full clarity if that's at all possible...
Absolutely brilliant, a real murder mystery. Thank you 🤗
It’s not real it’s made up
You know what they mean,don't be a smart Alec!
❤thank you
Don't you think Sgt Fowler was played by David Jason and not Leslie Sands!? The voice, the characteristic acting, everything, just like David Jason! Excellent play, I have listened to it several times.
Very good.
Absolutely brilliant.
If you can find it, there's an old BBC TV series called The Nightmare Man which came out a year before this radio series, and has a very similar story. Though there's also an episode of Sherlock that I suspect may have borrowed from 'Outbreak of Fear', too...
@@mysteriousmagpie Thanks.
Nicholas Courtney was amazing in everything he did!! I absolutely loved this!.
You probably spotted the little hints that his character in this might even be The Brigadier himself..?
Brilliant 🤩
It’s a classic ripe for the tv there are lots of rd wingfield would make great tv but the radio creates imagination
The funny thing is, there is a TV series that is very similar - 'The Nightmare Man', which was broadcast a year earlier. There's also an episode of Sherlock - the Baskervilles episode - which features a secret military weapon that I think may have been based on R.D. Wingfield's...
@@mysteriousmagpieI’ll have to look into that. And, like others, this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve heard this play. It’s just a great production all the way around! 👊🏻
❤️❤️❤️
Great story good acting. Music not so much
I understand fear of water is somewhat prevalent in England at the present time.
Not at all, the water's fine. It's all the sewage in it that's the problem.
Super
If this is the first time you listening to this ?
You would think,
This bloke from Scotland Yard
BUT REALLY IS HE
FROM SCOTLAND
? YARD. ?
WELL, I DO KNOW
IF HE IS ?
OR. HE. IS. NOT. ?
Theres. Much
More To This Play !!!
what's this at @1:48:03?
Well, that's me annoyed with myself for not editing the episodes together properly. However, what you hear there is the end of an episode of The Burkiss Way, a very successful comedy series from writers Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Marshall went on to write for TV - but Douglas Adams also nearly named his paranoid android 'Marshall' rather than Marvin because he'd worked with Andrew Marshall and thought he was a bit pessimistic. David Renwick went on to greatness with shows like One Foot in the Grave and Jonathan Creek. The Burkiss Way was a very eccentric show, but hugely popular in its day...
Second listen
TOO BAD about that atrocious music" heading up the episodes. Whose idea was it? Ugh.