The Body Snatchers #9
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Written by Frank W. McEnaney Length: 29:02*
Based on "The Body-Snatcher" (1884) by Robert Louis Stevenson Genre(s): Horror
Produced at CBC Toronto Recording Date(s): 7/24/1980
Original CBC AirDate: 8/29/1980
CBC Repeat(s): 12/18/1999+		 CBC FM Repeat: 1/10/1981
Arts National Rebroadcast Date: ---
Original NPR Tx Date: 10/9/1981 NPR Repeat Tx: 7/16/1982 NPR ID#: 811009
CBC Tape ID: 3NF-03 Released: 198x Flipside Episode: "Love and the Lonely One"
DH Tape ID: PAC-8611
ISBN: 1-55204-611-7		 Released: 199x Flipside Episode: "Beyond the Law"
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Cast & Crew
Neil Munro   as   Fettis
Graham Haley   as   Wolf McFarland
Robert Christie   as   Dr. Knox
Richard Donat   as   Burke
Sean Mulcahy   as   Hare
Wendy Thatcher   as   Jane Galbraith
Michael Wincott   as   Richardson
Eric House   as   Grey

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Announcer
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Recording Engineer(s)
John Jessop

Sound Effects
Bill Robinson

Production Assistant(s)
Nina Callaghan

Story Editor(s)
John Douglas

Producer
Bill Howell

Additional Crew Notes
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An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story. The setting is Edinburgh, 1828, where the infamous Burke and Hare are providing suspiciously fresh corpses to the local medical school.  (DHPA)

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic by Frank W . McEnaney, set in Edinburgh, 1828, where the infamous Burke and Hare are providing suspiciously fresh corpses to the local medical school.  (NPR)

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Additional Information

+This episode was re-broadcast by the CBC as a Holiday Classic episode of The Mystery Project on Dec. 18, 1999.  (Neil Marsh)
Research Notes

*The LENGTH is taken from this episode's entry in the NPR Quarterly Listings. (Neil Marsh)
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