'The Technicolour Time Machine by Harry Harrison

[Riklaa]

BBC R4 - Harry Harrison's 'The Technicolour Time Machine'
Adapted by Chris Boucher
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Broadcast September 5, 1981
Coded from tape at128/44

Great science fiction comedy in which a down at heel Hollywood film
production company employs a time machine to send a film crew to
the 10th Century to make a schlock film about the Vikings.

Cast
Lee Montague
Richard Pearson
John Bay
David March
Michael Kilgarriff
Karen Archer
Alexander John
Barry Denham
William Rogers
Crawford Logan
Don Fellows
Sean Barrett
Andrew Secombe
Patience Tomlinson
John Liddle

The narrative revolves around the efforts of a mediocre film director to save his job, his livelihood and just incidentally the studio he works for. To do this, he enlists a mad scientist, the crooked studio owner, a jazz tuba player, a cowboy, two fabulously stupid movie stars, and a real live ocean-crossing Viking. He ends up making history, but in a way he never dreamed of.

This novel presents a clear use of the restricted action resolution of the Grandfather paradox. The actions of the characters can not have changed the past because the past is what their actions brought about. For example, you couldn't go back in time and kill your Grandfather because then you wouldn't be born.

The BBC produced a radio play adaption of the novel for the long running series "Saturday Night Theatre". It was broadcast on September 5, 1981 and you can listen to it now.  Harry Harrison is one of my favorite Science Fiction Writers and Time Travel is also a favorite.  This story is one of the best Time travel stories out there and the plot is absolutely hilarious. download this and be taken to yesteryear and back with some outrageous characters who are making a movie.

The Technicolour Time machine Link

[Jim Robarts]

Thanks Rick.

[Gerald Lea]

Sounds great! And I'm guessing the adaptor is the same Chris Boucher who wrote 'Face of Evil' & 'Robots of Death' for Tom Baker's Doctor in the Seventies.

[David Knight]

Excellent Rick!  

[Riklaa]

BUMP

[Bill Hollweg]

Thanks a MILLION RICK!

;-)

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

Apparently, from the file title and the language of the description, this is a"spafon7e" encode. He's a prolific sharer, whose work is usually of the highest caliber.

I have a 128/44 encode of this that i acquired from UseNet. It's marked as "stereo" but a quick listen seems to cast doubt on that claim. I think i'll grab your version and compare.

Thanks.

[Riklaa]

I have come across a better encode of this show. Just hit the above link!  ------------  Enjoy

[Mike Hobart]

Remember this story well. It was a serial in Analog Science Fiction in 1967 under the title "The Time Machined Saga." A great yarn.