Links

Connections to all sorts of related sites. Everything from Nightfall-specific websites to resources for the audio dramatist; from sites about Nightfall people to the latest in modern audio drama; and from general horror links to our research sources. Follow them...if you dare!

<This section is still under development: more links to be added>

AudioBook Café: Review of CBC Audio's Nightfall: Vol. 1 CD

OTR Plot Spot: Their Nightfall page with brief plot synopses and micro-reviews of many of the episodes by fans

Wikipedia: Yup, there's an entry for Nightfall at Wiki!

CBC Shop: Page for the only CD release currently available, Nightfall: Vol. 1

Crayon Group, The: Writer Randy Brown's promotional services group

Accommodations in Canada: Writer Graham Pomeroy's website for B&Bs, hotels, motels and other forms of lodging all across Canada

SilverDonaldCameron: YahooGroup of weekly newspaper columns by writer Silver Donald Cameron from the Halifax Sunday Herald

Angry Blue: Fonts & Photoshop Brushes

Concordia Centre for Broadcasting Studies: CBC Radio Drama database

Tasty Dead Carnivalesque: Mimi Boucher's Dark Clipart & Curious Concessions

Alien Worlds: Lee Hansen's epic space saga began in 1978, telling the story of the crew of the International Space Authority's Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Space Observatory, Starlab, and the various alien threats they encounter. With a dramatic theme performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and regular appearances by well-known actors, Alien Worlds is reminiscent of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials of the Golden Age.

Big Finish Productions: Big Finish began making authorized Doctor Who episodes, featuring several of the actors who played the part on TV, as well as their companions, in the late 1990's. They've since branched out into revivals of other classic British shows, including The Tomorrow People and Sapphire and Steel, as well as some based on other characters, such as Judge Dredd, Professor Bernice Summerfield and Sarah Jane Smith. Their sales have been quite spectacular and the quality of their productions is top-notch.

CBS Radio Mystery Theatre : Himan Brown's popular series ran from 1974-1982, hosted by E.G. Marshall and, later, by Tammy Grimes. Brown had been responsible for some of the classic shows of the Golden Age, like Inner Sanctum and The Adventures of the Thin Man. Radio Mystery Theatre was an attempt to rekindle an interest in radio drama at a time when broadcasters were adapting to the shorter attentions spans of their audience. CBS agreed to Brown's proposal in 1973 and RMT was given life. Writers received $350 per script and actors $73.92 (which was scale at the time). The production schedule was amazing: actors showed up at 9:00am for a quick cold reading of the script, roles were assigned and, after a five-minute break, recording began. By noon the session was wrapped up, checks handed out and post-production work begun to prepare for broadcast. Considering this quick schedule, the quality of the shows was spectacular.

Comedy-O-Rama Radio Theatre Hour: A wacky variety series produced by Joe Bevilacqua, a devoted fan and student of Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and the rest of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon characters. After attending some of Butler's voice workshops (along with fellow classmates Nancy Cartwright [The Simpsons] and Cory Burton [Justice League]), Bevilacqua began producing his own radio drama programs. Among his most popular are The Withering of Willoughby and the Professor and The Mis-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Dry Smoke & Whispers Holodio Theatre: This award-winning new-comer on the scene actually began in 1979 and ended up with 53 episodes before over half of them were lost to Hurricane Elana in 1985. From their website:

DS&WHT is the Chronicle of a parallel dimension. It's an intriguing future, full of the contradictions that make life impeccably incomprehensible. Neon minarets tower over shady bars. Crime triumphs daily, and corrupt corporations have their way with an entire galaxy. This is the home of Emille Song, Special Detective and his colleague, Professor Durrick Henchard. Idealism isn't dead. It's just beat up and bleeding in a dark alleyway, waiting for someone else to take it on the chin for a change.

Jim French Productions: Since 1972, Jim French has been writing, producing and directing radio drama programs live on stage in Seattle. French has produced in practically every genre, be it science-fiction, mystery, horror, suspense, or detective noir. His trademark use of well-known character actors, such as Harry Anderson (Night Court), Richard Sanders (WKRP in Cincinnati), Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island), John Astin (The Addams Family), and Tom Smothers (The Smothers Brothers), has won over many listeners, as well as critics.

Last Minute Productions: LPM is a not-for-profit corporation based in Bloomington, Indiana, and is dedicated to the production, promotion, and preservation of radio theater. LMP is made up of writers, performers, producers, engineers, and others interested in audio as a storytelling medium. Their most successful project to date has been Hayward Sanitarium.

Hayward Sanitarium: Set at a small sanitarium in New England, dedicated to researching facility patients affected by so-called "supernatural phenomena." A team of dedicated psychiatrists and scientists try to discover if the supernatural is real, or simply a product of the human imagination. Brilliant young psychiatrist Dr. Richard Atwater arrives for his first day at Hayward Sanitarium. Very soon he begins to suspect that something is wrong. Horribly wrong. And he has to try to find out what it is. Unwittingly, he starts down a long, dark path -- from which he may be unable to escape.

Hayward Sanitarium received airplay on NPR Playhouse in 1994 and 1997.

National Public Radio: In 1979, National Public Radio kicked off its premiere of NPR Playhouse with Brian Daley's 13-part adaptation of George Lucas' hit movie, Star Wars. The series went on to present first-time U.S. airings of the BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Lord of the Rings and the CBC's Nightfall, among many others. Sadly, NPR Playhouse went off the air in September 2002.

Star Wars: Based as much on Lucas' novel as on his film -- with quite a bit of Brian Daley's own imagination added in -- this incredible series shattered many concepts held at the time about the value of radio drama. It achieved, at its height, an audience of 750,000 listeners per episode across the country and was so popular that follow-up dramatizations of The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi were also produced.

New Frequency Players: The NFP have been performing live radio drama sketches in front of audiences in Hollywood for over four years. It's a unique art form that combines the live radio drama format of the Golden Age with the one-act play, allowing them to present several stories in different genres during the same program, thus showing off their versatility. From their website:

A professional ensemble of actors, foley artists, and musicians bring to life radio tales of drama, comedy, horror, science fiction, detective, western, mystery, and suspense.

Ollin Productions: Joe Medina and Jamie Lawson were, for the longest time, deeply immersed in Doctor Who fandom. They were respected fan authors and fanzine publishers. But, after a while, they wanted to branch out into original works, and from this desire came Afterhell.

Afterhell: The concept is familiar, but with a twist: it's a dark fantasy/horror/sci-fi anthology that takes place on Earth after the fall to apocalypse has begun. The laws of Science and Nature, the laws of God and Man, no longer have meaning. Literal and personal demons take shape and wreak havoc on the population. Monsters lie in wait in the shadows or trample cities beneath their feet. All Hell has broken loose and Earth is its new home.

Seeing Ear Theatre: This subsidiary of the Sci-Fi Channel features audio dramas based on the work of various authors, as well as original works like City of Dreams, by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczinsky. This series of eight dramas follows the tried-and-true formula of the sci-fi/horror/fantasy anthology.

ZBS: Founded in 1970 by audio professionals seeking to produce "inventive and funny programs and commercials", ZBS' first hit was the Jack Flanders mystery The Fourth Tower of Inverness. Several more Jack Flanders stories appeared before the release of Ruby, the Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe in 1982, which won the National Federation of Community Broadcasters award for Best Radio Drama. Since then ZBS has produced many dramas of varying styles, including the bizarre Cabinet of Dr. Fritz (Fritz being a rubber head with microphones implanted in the ears to allow the actors and sound effects artists to create a realistic 3D audio effects), adaptations of the popular Dinotopia and His Dark Materials series of books and, of course, more Jack Flanders and Ruby adventures.

The Radio Horror Host Hall of History: An on-line guide to Radio's Horror Hosts from the Golden Age to the present

SFFAudio: Science Fiction and Fantasy Audio News, Reviews and Commentary: "The future never sounded so good..."

The Vintage Radio Place: Jerry Haendiges' site for everything OTR. Broadcast logs for over 500 radio shows, articles about OTR, tips and resources for collectors, collections of classic OTR for sale and trade, links to even more OTR sites, you name it!

AudioTheatre.com's Resources Page

CBC Radio Sunday Showcase Writers' Guidelines

Erik Deckers' Audio Theatre Resource

Great Northern Audio Theatre

Independent Radio Drama Productions

Jerry Stearns' Radio Theatre on the Web Page

Method for Writing Radio Drama, A

Tony Palermo's Radio Drama Resources Page

Well-Tempered Audio Dramatist, The

Willamette Radio Workshop's Resources Page

Bloody Fingernail: We've all wanted to write our names in blood on the wall, haven't we? Well now you can.

HumanDescent.com: This is what happens when people have Photoshop and too much time on their hands. Be prepared to enter the bizarre world of morphing. You may never view your pets the same way again.

The Nightmare Project: A repository of nearly 2000 nightmares submitted by people from all over , and still growing. It just seemed like a link to this site belonged here.

Great Northern Audio Theatre: Jerry Stearns and Brian Price's site for their own radio drama productions, as well as numerous links to sci-fi radio drama sites, and sites for radio drama production resources

Halloween Horror Greeting Cards: It's fright night ! Rise up to the horrors that Halloween holds for you. Wish your friends, family, and dear ones a scarrific night with 123Greetings.com's Halloween Horror eCards. Don't be afraid... send them one of these horror-i-fic wishes that'll chill their spine 'n curdle their blood on Halloween.

HorrorFind.com: A directory and search engine dead-icated to horror, Halloween, supernautral and spooky subjects!

New Genre: a biannual publication featuring unpublished fiction that promotes craftsmanship and innovation in the fields of science and horror fiction

Radio Days - A SoundBite History: Experience the history and sounds from the 30's, 40's, and 50's of old time radio. Broadcast history Timelines, Captain Midnight, Radio journalism and more!

The Great Canadian Guide to the Movies (and TV) : Part of the Original Pulp and Dagger Fiction Webzine site.

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