The Slide by Victor Pemberton

seven-part BBC science fiction serial by Victor Pemberton.

A earthquake opens up a huge fissure in the new town of Redlow in Kent. Then a mysterious mud begins to ooze out, and animals and birds begin to mysteriously die. On the instructions of the dominating Minister of Parliament Hugh Deverill, seismologist Josef Gomez is called in to examine the continuing earth tremors. But the effects of the oozing mud are having a strange effect on people, and Professor Gomez and his team's findings begin to reveal a terrifying fact ... that there is a lethal intelligence in the mud itself and if not stopped the human race may be in danger of extermination!

Hugh Deverill, MP ... Maurice Denham
Professor Josef Gomez ... Roger Delgado
Dr. Ken Richards ... David Spenser
Anna Deverill ... Marion Mathie
Mrs. Wilson ... Miriam Margolyes
Inspector Baxter ... Geoffrey Matthews
Sergeant Johnson ... Wilfred Babbage
Professor Lambert ...Rolf Lefebvre
Professor Lippert ... Allan McClelland
Janet Marshall ... Elisabeth Proud
"Tug" Wilson ... Stephen Jack
Constable/First Journalist/Pilot ... Anthony Jackson
RAF Corporal ... Anthony Hall
Mrs. Luke ... Noel Hood
Nursing Sister ... Eva Haddon
Newscaster/AC2 Gibbons ... Nigel Graham
Sorenson ... Fraser Kerr
Nurse ... Patricia Leventon
Dr. Robeson ... Michael Kilgarriff
Second Journalist ... Hector Ross
Third Journalist/Policeman/Ground Control ... Brian Hewlett
American Journalist ... Peter Marinker
Vicar ... Noel Howlett
Margaret Griffiths, MP ... Joan Matheson
TV Interviewer ... Henry Stamper

Special Sound Effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Directed by John Tydeman

Broadcast on the BBC Light Programme 13 February - 27 March 1966

Episode 1 00:00
Moment of Silence
Tremors threaten a new town built in Kent.
But the bigger subterranean threat is yet to emerge...

Episode 2 30:20
Down Came a Blackbird
Birds and animals are being wiped out following an earthquake in the Kent countryside.

A strange kind of mud has started oozing from the fissure in Holly Mill Lane as the mystery deepens in the new town of Redlow.

Episode 3 1:00:33
Analysis
On the instructions of the dominating MP Hugh Deverill, seismologist, Josef Gomez has been called in to examine earth tremors in Kent.

But the effects of the oozing mud on both people and animals is becoming increasingly evident...

Episode 4 1:30:37
Heart-Beat
Redlow’s MP becomes increasingly distant and erratic. Then his old enmity with Professor Gomez surfaces.

Meanwhile scientists who've been examining a sample of mud from the slide get a nasty surprise...

Episode 5 2:01:15
Danger Point
The oozing mud begins to surround the new town of Redlow in an apparently organised manner.

The local residents of Kent are increasingly in danger...

Episode 6 2:32:05
Time Limit
As the mysterious mud encroaches even further, the new town of Redlow is declared a Disaster Area and a complete evacuation is underway.

Now even local MP Hugh Deverill is feeling the effects...

Episode 7 3:02:00
Out of the Darkness
Lives and buildings have been endangered by the relentless slide of mud in the new town of Redlow.

Residents have succumbed to its remorseless power.

Unless Professor Gomez finds the solution it is possible that the whole world could be destroyed.....

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