T H E D A R K I S L A N D ----- ------- ----------- 1969 First Show: 19 Sep, 1969 Last Show: 24 Oct, 1969 Number Episodes: 6 Audition Show: none Description: THE DARK ISLAND is story of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides. It starts out with the discovery of a strange, unidentified torpedo, found washed up on shore of a small, nearly uninhabited island. It leads to a long-standing Soviet esponage ring and an action-filled effort to find and capture the members of the ring. It originally aired as a TV serial on BBC TV, starting on 8 July 1962. Later, it was done as a 6-part radio serial, airing on BBC Radio 4, from 19 September, 1969 to 24 October, 1969. Both the TV and radio scripts were written by Robert Barr, who went on to write it into a novel, published in March of 1973. The radio serial is a taunt, fun listen, very much based in the times, an interesting return to the late '60's Cold War times. Log Comments: The number of TV episodes is not known. It is not known if the radio serial episodes were titled. For this log, titles are shown as "not known". Different broadcast dates were found on the Internet; from 9 September, 1969 to 16 October, 1969. The same source agreed that the serial was broadcast on Fridays, but these dates fall on Thursdays. Chronological Log: Date Day Num Title ------------ --- --- ------------------- 19 Sep, 1969 Fri 1 .... not known .... 26 Sep, 1969 Fri 2 .... not known .... 03 Oct, 1969 Fri 3 .... not known .... 10 Oct, 1969 Fri 4 .... not known .... 17 Oct, 1969 Fri 5 .... not known .... 24 Oct, 1969 Fri 6 .... not known .... Last Update: May 20, 2004 This log is informational only and does not imply that I have these shows for trade or sale. The shows are still protected under copyright law and should be obtained only from authorized dealers. The log may be freely reproduced and published on a no-profit basis. Please send error corrections or additional information to Frank M. Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, Verona, NJ 07044 (email: wb2ntp@arrl.net).