Tuesday, November 5, 2013

West Country Tales....updated


Tucson Tim has sent along a bunch of vintage spooky stuff that I'm slowing sorting through.

West Country Tales ran for two series in the early 80's. Here are 9 surviving episodes (of 14 produced). This supernatural drama series solicited real-life accounts from viewers in the Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset area and selected 14 (of over 100 received) to create teleplays from.
These are a little different as there is little dialogue and a lot of narration, most of it done by Keith Barron (who has many credits in his long career - too many to list at this time...in between periods of a hockey game). A few familiar faces appear here. Wendy Richard, Nanette Newman, 60's singer Anita Harris. I've cleaned these up a bit. Lopped off the loose ends, shaved off any frayed edges, blurred out a couple time stamps, brightened up some dark shadows..........sorry, but I can find no other sources of information that contain anything I've not already mentioned.

UPDATE: Mancunian Ken had another episode and passed it along.

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