Appointment with Fear
Broadcast · 1943 · Weekly
BBC
BBC · 1943–1945
Broadcasts
4
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
- Network
- BBC
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 4
- Genre
- horror
Appointment with Fear was a long-running BBC radio thriller that began its run in 1943 as the British version of Suspense , complete with many of the same scripts as its American counterpart (most by John Dickson Carr) and also hosted by the Man in Black. That original series ran for nine seasons, until 1955, but its mysterious host has never really left the British airwaves, returning to host Fear on 4 from 1988-1992 then The Man in Black from 2009-2011. These four episodes are the ones from that original nine-season run are in circulation today. But as I detail on this page , I’ve found several “lost episodes” from Appointment with Fear ’s 7-episode TENTH season, which ran from December 19 Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
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
0 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Also on BBC
BBC in 1943–1945
Other series the network carried while Appointment with Fear was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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