VISION ON SOUND

VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 236 - TX APRIL 13 2025


Listen Later

PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI and IRWIN ALLEN


First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on April 13th 2025.


Recently, I’ve been re-watching a whole load of late-era VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes, as well as a smattering of examples from THE TIME TUNNEL, and this set me to thinking that I’d quite like to talk to one of my regulars about the quartet of high-concept television adventure series that were created by IRWIN ALLEN in the mid 1960s, which also included LOST IN SPACE and LAND OF THE GIANTS.


Across a highly productive five years from 1964, around three hundred episodes of these shows were produced for the American networks, which, in an era of three main channels, where having just one show on the air is quite some achievement, is nothing short of impressive.


Granted, the IRWIN ALLEN productions can sometimes be rightly accused of being a little bit eccentric or simplistic in their storytelling, and perhaps sometimes concentrate far more on the action and not so much on the drama, but these four shows definitely influenced a generation, both at home, and internationally, as they were sold across the world, and excited young minds wherever and whenever they were broadcast.


Furthermore, such were the strong ideas at the core of these shows, that elements from all of them have often been taken and used in other series that built upon the imaginative ideas that were always at the core of IRWIN ALLEN’s shows.


Anyway, after our shows last year in which PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI joined me to talk about various quartets of classic USTV shows, he seemed the obvious choice to join me this week to mull over his experiences of discovering these four shows during their repeat runs in the 1980s, and I hope you enjoy the hour as much as I did.


PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

VISION ON SOUNDBy Martin Holmes

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

1 ratings


More shows like VISION ON SOUND

View all
Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro by The Three Who Rule

Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

321 Listeners

The Doctor Who Show by The Doctor Who Show

The Doctor Who Show

15 Listeners

Smersh Pod by John Rain

Smersh Pod

51 Listeners

Looks Unfamiliar by Podnose

Looks Unfamiliar

4 Listeners

Round The Archives by Round The Archives

Round The Archives

1 Listeners

Reel Britannia by Scott

Reel Britannia

9 Listeners

Strangers in Space by Strangers in Space

Strangers in Space

17 Listeners

The Doctor Who Podcast by The Doctor Who Podcast

The Doctor Who Podcast

29 Listeners

A Wheezing Groaning Sound by John Rain

A Wheezing Groaning Sound

7 Listeners

Pod Mortem: A Horror Podcast by Reneé Hunter Vasquez, John Paul Vasquez, Travis Hunter-Sayapin

Pod Mortem: A Horror Podcast

452 Listeners

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour by iporlemedia

The Peggy Mount Calamity Hour

3 Listeners

My 70's TV Childhood by Oliver Colling

My 70's TV Childhood

0 Listeners

A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast by Joe Ford

A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

10 Listeners

Goon Pod by Goon Pod

Goon Pod

11 Listeners

Scarred for Life by Lock It In Studio

Scarred for Life

9 Listeners