The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1984–1986
- Surviving broadcasts
- 24
- Genre
- science fiction
Vanishing Point was a Canadian sci-fi/horror radio drama produced by CBC Radio in the 1980s, adapting original scripts and literary science fiction.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1984, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Testing of Stanley Teagarden · 5 Oct 1984
- 2. Death and the Compass · 26 Oct 1984
- 3. The Lost Door · 28 Dec 1984
- 01
The Testing of Stanley Teagarden
5 Oct 1984 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 5 October 1984. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 02
Death and the Compass
26 Oct 1984 · 32 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 26 October 1984. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 03
The Lost Door
28 Dec 1984 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 28 December 1984. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 04
Meteor
22 Feb 1985 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 22 February 1985. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 05
Seeing God
24 May 1985 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 24 May 1985. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 06
The Enormous Radio
14 Oct 1985 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 14 October 1985. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 07
The Nine Billion Names of God
18 Nov 1985 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 18 November 1985. Restored from the Internet Archive.
- 08
Past Imperfect
16 Dec 1985 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBC, 16 December 1985. Restored from the Internet Archive.
What it became
The rocket age
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Vanishing Point
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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