SERIES: THE SOUNDS OF DARKNESS
Starring: Tony Jay, James White, Hugh Rouse, Michael Mayer
Brian O’Shaughnessy, Diane Appleby, Pamela Murray
Elaine Lee, John Hayter & Louis Ife
Writers: Tony Jay, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Louis Ife
Producer: Gerrie van Wyk at the AKA Studios, Johannesburg
Total Episodes: Broadcast: 276 Archived: 262
First Episode B/C: 07/07/1967 Last Episode B/C: 10/09/1974
Radio Station: SABC – Springbok Radio
Synopsis:
This series was the replacement series for the long running Australian imported series “Nightbeat”.
The story centered around Lee Masters, the blind FBI detective that solved crime in is own unique
style. The series was one of many directed and produced by Gerrie van Wyk and was an original
idea developed between Gerrie and Brian O'Shaughnessy. Gerrie later succeeded with another
series entitled “Crisis Call”, and many Afrikaans serials for Springbok Radio, including the long
running series “Oupa Jasper” and "Die Vlugteling".
Research has shown that there were infact 2 seasons of this series. The first season only lasted 28
episodes and was broadcast between July 1967 and February 1968 on Friday evenings. A second
more successful season started in November 1969 and continued until September 1974 broadcast
on Tuesday evenings. The series had 3 writers, with Brian O'Shaughnessy writing the most episodes.
Brian also acted in many of the episodes. Tony Jay , who also wrote several episodes, played the
lead role, Lee Masters. He was replaced in 1973 by Louis Ife, another writer who played Lee, until the
end of the series in 1974. The music, including the opening theme music was composed specially for
the series by Colin Campbell.
Around 22 episodes are currently in circulation with Old Time Radio collectors worldwide. These
episodes seem to have originated from the South African Collector, John Wright. The bulk of the
episodes were donated to this Society by the late Neil Gesson. After this series has been digitally
transferred and restored a complete set will be donated to the SABC Sound Archive in Johannesburg
for national preservation.
List of episodes preserved within the Springbok Radio Preservation Society of South Africa Sound
Archive:
Nr B/C Date Episode Title
001 07/07/1967 Traitor Beware (First Episode, 1st Season)
002 14/07/1967 The Neiman Principle
003 21/07/1967 The Last Round
004 28/07/1967 The Killers
005 04/08/1967 Learning the Hard Way
006 11/08/1967 Georgia on her Mind
007 18/08/1967 For Two Pins
008 25/08/1967 Pressure Point
009 01/09/1967 Murder Make Up
010 08/09/1967 The Smell of Death
011 15/09/1967 Power Spells Danger
012 22/09/1967 The Perplexed Pilot
013 29/09/1967 A Brush with death
014 06/10/1967 Double Cross
015 13/10/1967 Say it with Music
016 20/10/1967 Blind Lead Blind
017 27/10/1967 Kidnappers Killed
018 03/11/1967 Cry Fake
019 10/11/1967 Call me Lucky
020 17/11/1967 Fire Down Below
-- 24/11/1967 No Broadcast - Special Transmission
021 01/12/1967 Birds for Sale
022 08/12/1967 Blind man's Bluff
023 15/12/1967 No Broadcast - Special Transmission
024 22/12/1967 You never know with Women
025 29/12/1967 East Side Story
026 05/01/1968 Playing with Fire
027 12/01/1968 Snow White and Seven Accidents
028 19/01/1968 Lights out for Lee
-- 26/01/1968 No Broadcast - Special Transmission
-- 02/02/1968 No Broadcast - Special Transmission
029 09/02/1968 Gambit (Final Episode, 1st Season)
030 25/11/1969 Painted in Red (First Episode, 2nd Season)
031 02/12/1969 Doomsday Man
032 09/12/1969 Bugged for Speed
033 16/12/1969 Birds for Sale (Remake of B/C 01/12/1967)
034 23/12/1969 Kill Lee Masters
035 30/12/1969 Beefsteak, Texas Style
036 06/01/1970 Child High
037 13/01/1970 Call Crazy
038 20/01/1970 Tick-Tock Death
039 27/01/1970 The Fish that Flew
040 03/02/1970 The Smiler
041 10/02/1970 A Day in Winter
042 17/02/1970 S.F.for a Soviet
043 24/02/1970 Lace-up for Lee
044 03/03/1970 Double Trouble
045 10/03/1970 Ink for a Fink
046 17/03/1970 The Reardon Virus
047 24/03/1970 The Face of Death
048 31/03/1970 Tequipa Bay
049 07/04/1970 Star for Sale
050 14/04/1970 The Life Merchants
051 21/04/1970 Find Otto Kallmann
052 28/04/1970 Vacation – Stockade Style
053 05/05/1970 Two for the 222
054 12/05/1970 Date for a Bashful Man
055 19/05/1970 No Limp for Linton
056 26/05/1970 Sam
057 02/06/1970 Blind Man’s Bluff (Remake of B/C 08/12/1967)
058 09/06/1970 Fool Injection
059 16/06/1970 Harem for Ben Haram
060 23/06/1970 Death at Four Feet Six
061 30/06/1970 Code for a Commie
062 07/07/1970 No Mourning for this Bird
063 14/07/1970 Pix for Pally
064 21/07/1970 A Brush with death (Remake of B/C 29/09/1967)
065 28/07/1970 Deadline for Nuro
066 04/08/1970 Once Bitten
067 11/08/1970 Showdown for a Soldier
068 18/08/1970 Big Track
069 25/08/1970 Flame-out FBI
070 01/09/1970 The Postman Knocks Death
071 08/09/1970 Leap for the Latin
072 15/09/1970 Louisiana Hayride
073 22/09/1970 Red Checkers
074 29/09/1970 Go West, Young Man
075 06/10/1970 Travellers West
076 13/10/1970 Tommy’s Gun
077 20/10/1970 Curtains for a Kirton
078 27/10/1970 Train of Events
079 03/11/1970 Double Trouble (Remake of B/C 03/03/1970)
080 10/11/1970 Talk Turkey
081 17/11/1970 The One that got Away
082 24/11/1970 The Costa Fame
083 01/12/1970 Red Bait
084 08/12/1970 Trip to Tangiers
085 15/12/1970 Curly talks Straight
086 22/12/1970 Luiz draws a Blank
087 29/12/1970 Deadline One
088 05/01/1971 It’s a Gas
089 12/01/1971 One-Two-Three
090 19/01/1971 Take your Pick
091 26/01/1971 The Lady said “No”
092 02/02/1971 Katie – Going East
093 09/02/1971 Taint a Painter
094 16/02/1971 Luke for a Silver Lining
095 23/02/1971 Plot and Carry One
096 02/03/1971 Two Birds, if one “Aimes”
097 09/03/1971 Silent Death
098 16/03/1971 A Friend of Uncle Sam
099 23/03/1971 Shadows for Sean
100 30/03/1971 Wheeler Bridge
101 06/04/1971 Skeleton Coast
102 13/04/1971 Bust up for Badagsi
103 20/04/1971 Gone for a Burton
104 27/04/1971 You Wanna Sue
105 04/05/1971 Finish for a Finn
106 11/05/1971 A Thread of Evidence
107 18/05/1971 Bullet for a Bullet
108 25/05/1971 A Double…Quits
109 01/06/1971 Music hath Chorus
110 08/06/1971 Put out a General Call
111 15/06/1971 Cliffhanger
112 22/06/1971 Discount for All
113 29/06/1971 Snap
114 06/07/1971 A Tanner, A Tin
115 13/07/1971 Drop Dead
116 20/07/1971 24 Hours – One Revolution
117 27/07/1971 Tell us, Nellus
118 03/08/1971 French-Canadian Leave
119 10/08/1971 Defective Defector
120 17/08/1971 A Frutti Ferago
121 24/08/1971 Potluck in Mohara
122 07/09/1971 Seek Miss Soames
123 14/09/1971 Some Plants are Animal
124 21/09/1971 Rob Peters to Pay all
125 28/09/1971 Smell of Almonds
126 05/10/1971 Germ of an Idea
127 12/10/1971 Sound in Mind
128 19/10/1971 Justice, Sicilian Style
129 26/10/1971 Touch and Go
130 02/11/1971 Of Negative Value
131 09/11/1971 Snatch
132 16/11/1971 Curtains of Kirton (Remake of B/C 20/10/1970)
133 23/11/1971 The Man in Her Mind
134 07/12/1971 Snow in Tangiers
135 14/12/1971 Parcel for you, Lee
136 21/12/1971 Beggar’s Beat
137 28/12/1971 Germ of an Idea (Remake of B/C 05/10/1971)
138 04/01/1972 Mexican Bait
139 11/01/1972 Oh, Brother
140 18/01/1972 Framed Like Crazy
141 25/01/1972 A Plot in Romania
142 01/02/1972 Drugs for Mugs
143 08/02/1972 The Touch that takes the Fingers
144 15/02/1972 Hot Trail, a Little Chile
145 22/02/1972 A Carol for a Song
146 29/02/1972 Who’s for the High Jump
147 07/03/1972 Death Minus Two
148 14/03/1972 What’s Your Poison
149 21/03/1972 Chinese Puzzle
150 28/03/1972 Deserted
151 04/04/1972 Accent on Accent
152 11/04/1972 Blood Counts
153 18/04/1972 You may get it in the Neck
154 25/04/1972 Curtains for Kord
155 02/05/1972 No Holiday for Halliday
156 09/05/1972 Come the Revolution
157 16/05/1972 The Chinese Approach
158 23/05/1972 Right on the Button
159 30/05/1972 (Episode Missing)
160 06/06/1972 Counterfoiled
161 13/06/1972 Make a Note
162 20/06/1972 A Mug’s Game
163 27/06/1972 Bad Luck, You Fallows
164 04/07/1972 Ring-a-Ring-a-Druggie
165 11/07/1972 For Lee – a Rattling Good Time
166 18/07/1972 Knife for a Life
167 25/07/1972 Lee’s Got it Taped
168 01/08/1972 Heroine Without a Hero
169 08/08/1972 Cape Double Cross
170 15/08/1972 For Johnny, a Glassburger
171 22/08/1972 One Leak Leads to Another
172 29/08/1972 No Kidding
173 05/09/1972 Fraud Ring
174 12/09/1972 Feet First
175 19/09/1972 Shark with a Secret
176 26/09/1972 On the Hook for the Book
177 03/10/1972 Single File
178 10/10/1972 His Heart was in It
179 17/10/1972 It Figures for Lee
180 24/10/1972 An Explosive Situation
181 31/10/1972 (Episode Missing)
182 07/11/1972 Not Fair, Sabena
183 14/11/1972 Three-way Stretch
184 21/11/1972 Crossed Lines can Kill
185 28/11/1972 Garbo, Japanese Style
186 05/12/1972 (Episode Missing)
187 12/12/1972 Foresight for Assassination
188 19/12/1972 Johnny Belinda
189 26/12/1972 Guys and Dolls
190 02/01/1973 Boot Hill for Baker
191 09/01/1973 Rockabye for Rickaby
192 16/01/1973 One-way Ticket
193 23/01/1973 Incident in Calabria
194 30/01/1973 Gypsy Rose Lee reads the Cards
195 06/02/1973 Snowbound for Lee
196 13/02/1973 Blind Lead for Lee
197 20/02/1973 Lone Star Lee
198 27/02/1973 Frame without a Picture
199 06/03/1973 Lee takes the Mickey
200 13/03/1973 Lucky Horse-shoe
201 20/03/1973 Red Flag to a Bull
202 27/03/1973 Some Cranes Can’t Fly
203 03/04/1973 Two Sugars for Sweet Revenge
204 10/04/1973 Dragons for Death
205 17/04/1973 No Teddy Bear’s Picnic
206 24/04/1973 Right on the Button, Lee
207 01/05/1973 Hoodoo Whodunnit
208 08/05/1973 One Will Die
209 15/05/1973 If the Cap fits
210 22/05/1973 Dead March
211 29/05/1973 Death is "Bitte"
212 05/06/1973 No Dock for Doc
213 12/06/1973 A Frame is a Frame is a Frame
214 19/06/1973 They get the Needle
215 26/06/1973 (Episode Missing)
216 03/07/1973 (Episode Missing)
217 10/07/1973 Gold, King
218 17/07/1973 (Episode Missing)
219 24/07/1973 (Episode Missing)
220 31/07/1973 Well Heeled, Lee
221 07/08/1973 This will Kill You
222 14/08/1973 Aloe, Lee
223 21/08/1973 Lee Pins it Down
224 28/08/1973 A Mug's Game
225 04/09/1973 Powder for Africa
226 11/09/1973 Masters, Masters old Masters
227 18/09/1973 A Matter of Wills
228 25/09/1973 Acid Test
229 02/10/1973 Dead Man's Bluff
230 09/10/1973 Jade is a Jade
231 16/10/1973 No Horseplay
232 23/10/1973 Sunday Service
233 30/10/1973 Single File, Times Four
234 06/11/1973 (Episode Missing)
235 13/11/1973 No Point to the Blade
236 20/11/1973 The Wall of Death
237 27/11/1973 Just for Kicks
238 04/12/1973 Quiet Beefing, Colonel
239 11/12/1973 Georgia on her Mind (Remake of B/C 11/08/1967)
-- 18/12/1973 No Episode Broadcast - Special Christmas Broadcast
-- 25/12/1973 No Episode Broadcast - Special Christmas Broadcast
240 01/01/1974 Murder, Boots and All
241 08/01/1974 Tell Me, Mr Porter
242 15/01/1974 Written in the Dust
243 22/01/1974 Sweet and Sour
244 29/01/1974 A Blind for Hawk Eye
245 05/02/1974 Vice in Camera
246 12/02/1974 Wrong Track, Johnny
247 19/02/1974 Just Desserts
248 26/02/1974 Strung Up
249 05/03/1974 Taps
250 12/03/1974 Stuck for a Clue
251 19/03/1974 (Episode Missing)
252 26/03/1974 Powder Blue it
253 02/04/1974 With the Gloves off
254 09/04/1974 Something Fishy
255 16/04/1974 On the Carpet
256 23/04/1974 Words, Words, Words
257 30/04/1974 Country and Western
258 07/05/1974 (Episode Missing)
259 14/05/1974 (Episode Missing)
260 21/05/1974 Barking up the wrong Tree
261 28/05/1974 A Rose by any other Name
262 04/06/1974 A Question of Honour
263 11/06/1974 (Episode Missing)
264 18/06/1974 Cliff-Hanger
265 25/06/1974 The Rest in Silence
266 02/07/1974 A Blumen-That Story
267 09/07/1974 Good Looker
268 16/07/1974 Stones-Throw Away
269 23/07/1974 (Episode Missing)
270 30/07/1974 High Life
271 06/08/1974 (Episode Missing)
272 13/08/1974 Masters in Kerr's Displeasure
273 20/08/1974 Butcher, Baker.......
274 27/08/1974 Last Bill for Brewer
275 03/09/1974 Two for the Price of One
276 10/09/1974 Up Brad, Down Dale (Final Episode, 2nd Season)
List Compiled by The Springbok Radio Preservation Society of South Africa. January, 2007
Replies
I'm still enjoying these. They are so varied.
Gypsy
Yes this collection is a great resource, all down to Riklaa who started the thread on October 22, 2010.
Thank you for the fills AND the episode list which was really helpful did I miss "Travelers Tale" which I have here?
Paul
Folder
The Sounds of Darkness - A Day in Winter-19700210(41).mp3
The Sounds of Darkness - Blind Leads Bind-67-12-08(16).mp3
The Sounds of Darkness - Curtains for Kirton-30-10-1970(77).mp3
The Sounds of Darkness - Double Trouble-19700311(44).mp3
The Sounds of Darkness - Friend of Uncle Sam-67-10-23.mp3
The Sounds of Darkness - Traitors Beware-19670707(01).mp3
Link to folder
Sounds of Darkness - One. Two. Three (COM)-19710112(89).mp3
Sounds of Darkness - Lights out for Lee-19680119(28).mp3
Sounds of Darkness - Go West young Man-19700929(74).mp3
Sounds of Darkness - Georgia in her Mind-19670811(06).mp3
Sounds of Darkness - Gambit-029-19680209(29)(Final Ep-1st Season).mp3
Rick,
Thanks for the offerings of these shows.
Bob
I do have some higher encodes of previously posted episodes
[SA] Sounds of Darkness 710223 (095) - Plot and Carry One [56-24] (...
I've only just got round to these shows,and i must agree with you Rick,they're excellent!! Many thanks to all who have shared!
David
[SA] Sounds of Darkness 710202 (092) - Katie Going East [56-24] (bk...
[SA] Sounds of Darkness 710209 (093) - Taint a Painter [56-24] (bk)...
[SA] Sounds of Darkness 710216 (094) - Luke for a Silver Lining [56...
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