THE BODY SNATCHERS
[SHORT-STORY]
The Robert Louis Stevenson story…
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: Various.
DURATION: August 31, 1933; et al.
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director—1974, CBS Radio Mystery
Theater), Bill Howell (producer—1980, Nightfall), Dudley Knight (reader—1978,
The Graveyard Shift), Ian Martin (scriptwriter—1974, CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre), Nelson Olmsted (narrator—1940, 1942, Story-Dramas), Frank W.
McEnaney (scriptwriter—1980, Nightfall).
CAST [1974, CBS Radio Mystery Theatre]: Ralph Bell, Court Benson, Howard Da
Silva, Patricia Elliot, Ken Harvey.
CAST [1980, Nightfall]: Robert Christie (Dr. Knox), Richard Donat (Burke),
Graham Haley (Wolf McFarland), Eric House (Grey), Sean Mulcahy (Hare), Neil
Munro (Fettis), Wendy Thatcher (Jane Galbraith), Michael Wincott
(Richardson).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Body Snatchers” (Nightfall, 8/29/80).
[Program log]
THE COLUMBIA DRAMATIC GUILD (WABC, NEW YORK)
[Thursday—8:30-9:00 PM]
August 31, 1933 “The Body Snatcher”
STORY-DRAMAS (WENR, CHICAGO)
[Wednesday—9:00-915 PM]
December 18, 1940 “The Body Snatchers”
[“…Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of a group of medical
students who work their way through school by digging up
newly-buried bodies and selling them to the school, will be
Nelson Olmsted’s vehicle during his Story-Dramas
broadcast…”]
STORY-DRAMAS (WMAQ, CHICAGO)
[Saturday—10:15-10:30 PM]
May 9, 1942 “The Body Snatchers”
SLEEP NO MORE (WRCA, NEW YORK)
Circa 1960 “The Body Snatchers”
THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (WRVR, NEW YORK)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]
December 5, 1974 “The Body Snatchers”
[“…Told by a medical student that he can get an education as
a doctor if he has a strong enough stomach and does what he
is told, young Cameron Fergus finds himself involved in the
procurement of cadavers for research. His job is to pay off
the grave robbers and to make sure there is a constant
supply, even if it means murder. Gulled and lulled into a life
of crime, he can find no way out—except in alcohol…”]
CAST: Ralph Bell (Wolfe MacFarlane), Court Benson
(Harry), Howard Da Silva (Cameron Fergus), Patricia Elliott
(Jeannie), Kenneth Harvey (Digger).
THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT (KPFK, LOS ANGELES)
Circa 1978 “The Body Snatchers”
NIGHTFALL (CBC TORONTO)
[Friday—7:30-8:00 PM]
August 29, 1980 “The Body Snatchers”
TERREURS, MERVEILLES ET FRISSONS D’AUTREFOIS (FRANCE
CULTURE, PARIS)
[???
June 8, 1982 “Le Voleur de cadavers”
THE RED ROOM (RADIO ?, LONDON)
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December 28, 2000 “The Body Snatchers”
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