Just Before Midnight Radio Plays
The Bionic Blob
Or
This bazooka on my left shoulder is loaded.
1st Broadcast 11th March 1979 BBC Radio 4
Writer
James Follett
Directed by
John Tydeman
Synopsis
A " Thing " from outer space accidentally arrives on Earth.
Its greatest ambition is to become a sidekick to a Private eye.
Cast
Amy Sandra Dickinson
Control John Bull
Lenny John Bull
Senator John Bay
Big Louey John Bay
Slim Chance Ed Bishop
Fingers Harold Kasket
Mayor Harold Kasket
James Follett Comments
None so far.
Running Time
15 minutes
The Bionic Blob and The Runaway Chatanooga Choo Choo is another in the same series.
128K
A Third "Just Before Midnight Radio Play"
The Devil to Pay
1st Broadcast 21st April 1979 BBC Radio 4
2nd Broadcast 23rd January 1980 BBC Radio 4
3rd August 2003 BBC 7 256K
Writer
James Follett
Directed by
Glyn Dearman
Synopsis
A car crash on a hot deserted road; a camper on hand to drag the driver from the blazing wreck.
The start of an action-packed adventure play?
.... Not quite listen on.
Cast
Devil, 1st Monk Norman Rodway
Camper, 2nd Monk Derek Seaton
If anyone has any other episodes or other shows from "Just Before Midnight" please Post here. --------- Thanks ---------- R
Replies
How interesting! Many thanks, Rick!
I did a little research and discovered that there are TWO HUNDRED FIFTY NINE plays in this series! The data comes from Sutton Elms. I converted their textual listing to an Excel spreadsheet.
In order to regularize the data, I have deleted the definite and indefinite articles ("The" and "A") usually appended with a comma. The spreadsheet is attached below.
One interesting note: The very first JBM was written by a new young playwright, offering his first radio play - Tom Stoppard! The fiftieth anniversary of this broadcast (now sadly marked as "lost") is January 1, 2014.
I know that i have a number of these plays, which I never associated with JBM. I'd ask everyone to look through their collections, so that we can put together the most complete set possible.
Bob
JBM.xlsx
In reviewing my spreadsheet, I have noted a small number of typographical errors. These erorrs are entirley mine, created during the transcription and NOT from the Sutton Elms original data set.
When I have finished revieing the dta, i will post the corrected list, although there are no major changes.
this will be the third time I have requested any plays from this series on Usenet in 2 years. I have had nary a nibble. If I had to live on what i caught from this fishing expedition I would have starved long ago, I will check out my own files and i will ask Usenet once again. Bob once it is fixed would you mind I dropped your spreadsheet on the BBC group of Usenet to see if it gets us anywhere? -------------------- R
My spreadsheet is just a re-statement of the data already on Sutton Elms.
I would ask, not for JBM shows, but simply for the titles known to be in the BBC/VRPCC holdings. I suspect that many people (like me) have these categorized as individual short works, not aware that they are actually part of JBM
Bob
from 1 R to another, 4 more @ https://www.mediafire.com/folder/te8dkq6uxm76r//otrnsw
I have a clean 128/44 encode of "The Cellar" BUT .. it has no intro or outro, so i never knew it was a JBM show.
Many Thanks Reuben. Those were good shows. R2R-Thanks -------------------------------- R
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