The Slide

The Slide is a sci-fi radio serial in seven parts by Victor Pemberton. It begins with an earthquake in Southern England. Then the local wildlife starts to disappear. It starred Roger Delgado, Maurice Denham David Spenser and Miriam Margolyes. The producer was John Tydeman and sound effects were by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.[1]

BBC database Genome lists the program as first transmitted on the BBC Light Programme on 13 February 1966 at 19:00 with the next six episodes following weekly. The programme was not repeated up to the Genome cut-off date of 2009. Radio 4 Extra started a repeat run of the serial in August 2020.

This was Victor Pemberton's first science fiction story which he submitted for the BBC TV series Doctor Who in 1964. It was rejected by script-editor David Whitaker, but following a revision it was accepted as a radio serial, commissioned by future Doctor Who producer Peter Bryant.[2]

It inspired the Doctor Who story Fury from the Deep. In September 2020, the serial was included as a bonus feature on the DVD & Blu-Ray release for the animated reconstruction of Fury from the Deep.[3]

The story originally in Doctor Who

The story was to feature the Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki discovering sentient mud invading London from a fishing bay.

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References
  1. "Light Programme 13 February 1966 on BBC Genome". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  2. "Victor Pemberton radio drama - DIVERSITY WEBSITE". Nigel Deacon. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  3. "'Fury From The Deep' cover art and special features revealed". BBC. Retrieved 3 August 2020.


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