Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point was a Canadian drama anthology series that ran on CBC Radio from 1984 until 1986, and then under a varying array of sub-titles until 1991. The series was created and produced by Bill Lane and ran for over a hundred episodes.
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​Please note that the episode numbers given below are merely the order in which the episodes are thought to have been broadcast — they are not the actual episode numbers. Broadcast dates are uncertain and non-genre episodes have been omitted.
Episode 1: In The Groove
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​On a motorcycle road trip, a man and his son meet a worker at a roadside diner who claims to have a dead girl's memories.

​First broadcast: 4 October 1984.
​Original Story by Audrey Thomas.
​Cast: Gary Chalk, Shaun Clemence, Tom Heaton, Alana Shields, Ken Lynn.
Episode 2: The Testing of Stanley Teagarden

​On vacation in Jamaica, Stanley Teagarden becomes obsessed with a personality test.

First broadcast: 5 October 1984.
Original Story by Tim Wynne Jones.
​Cast: Tom Hoff, Diana Bellshaw, Michael Hogan, Marie-Hélène Fontaine.
Episode 3: Disappearance

A bartender finds objects and memories keep disappearing.

​First broadcast: 12 October 1984.
Original Story by David Helwig.
​Cast: Geoffrey Bowes, Susan Hogan, Doris Petrie, Sean McCann, Elva Mai Hoover, Francine Volker, John Stalker, Ray Landry.
Episode 4: The Rescue

An autistic child learns to communicate with dolphins.
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​First broadcast: 19 October 1984.
Original Story by Raphael Vigo.
​Cast: Chuck Shermata, Beth Literon, Steven Hare, Chantelle Rogers, Aron Smolinsky, Daniel Lidman.
Episode 5: Death And The Compass

A detective investigates a series of murders linked by Jewish mysticism.

​First broadcast: 26 October 1984.
Original Story by Jorge Luis Borges.
​Cast: Eric House, Sandy Webster, Maya Ardel, Denis Parr, Stephen Ouimette, Barbara Kyle, Paul Soles.
Episode 6: Cage of Light

​A space exploration officer is put on trial, accused of murdering aliens during first contact.

​First broadcast: 2 November 1984.
Original Story by Bill Gray.
​Cast: Boyd Norman, Joseph Scala, Meredith Bain Woodward, Janet Wright, William Samples.
Episode 7: The Bailiff And The Women

In the half-way point between sleep and waking, a civil servant finds himself on trial for overzealously applying welfare rules.

​First broadcast: 9 November 1984.
Original Story by Michael Cook.
​Cast: Tom McBeth, Anna Hagen, Skye Murray, Jason Micas, Jimmy Johnston, Gillian Newman, Donna Peerless, Betty Phillips, Alex Dakin, Peter Hayworth.
Episode 8: The Silenian Test

Aliens arrive on Earth to test whether Mankind is fit to go to the stars.
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​First broadcast: 30 November 1984.
Original Story by David Lewis Stein.
​Cast: Terry Kelly, Janet Wright, Patricia Goldsmith, Shaun Clements, Gloria Harris, Joseph Golland, Norm Grohmann.
Episode 9: How Love Came To Prof. Guildea

A strait-laced professor believes a supernatural entity in his house is falling in love with him.

​First broadcast: 7 December 1984.
Original Story by Robert S. Hichens.
​Cast: Neil Munroe, Chris Wiggins, Philip Craig, Barbara Kyle, Stephen Ouimette, John Douglas.
Episode 10: The Cave

Whilst researching his Icelandic girlfriend's ancestry, a man discovers two of her relatives have gone missing in a mysterious cave, which may or may not exist.

​First broadcast: 14 December 1984.
Original Story by W. D. Valgardson.
​Cast:  Paul Batten, W. D. Valgardson, Alana Shields, Marcy Goldberg, Arnie Haroldson, Tom McBeth, Varnie O'Sullivan, Gwyneth Harvey, Dorothy Davies, Lilian Carlson, Ted Stither, Muriel Cooper.
Episode 11: The Lost Door

A man leaves work for home, only to finds his entire life has been erased from existence.

​First broadcast: 21 December 1984.
Original Story by Steve Petch.
​Cast: Richard Donat, Barbara Gordon, Joe Ziegler, Diana Belshaw, Tom Butler, Ted Dykstra, Ray Landry.
Episode 12: Phase Three

Car plant workers arrange deliberate accidents, in order to retire with disability payments, before they are replaced with robots.

​First broadcast: 1 February 1985.
Original Story by Brad Burningham.
​Cast: Shaun Mulcahy, Celine Duble Lockhart, Doug Kier, Bill Berry, Robert Koon.
Episode 13: Startek B16K

An out of control robot coffee machine leads the world to the brink of armageddon.

​First broadcast: 15 February 1985.
Original Story by John Palmer.
​Cast: Joe Ziegler, Diana Belshaw, David Fox, Marian Gilsenan, Eric House, Michael Kirby, Ray Landry, Barbara Kyle, John Stalker.
Episode 14: Meteor

Diminutive alien refugees from a dying world arrive on Earth in a spaceship, which is mistaken for a meteorite.

​First broadcast: 22 February 1985.
Original Story by John Wyndham.
​Cast: David Renton, David Brown, John Dunsworth, Janet McEwan, John Brett, Terry DeWolfe, Sharon Kline.
Episode 15: Evalu

Two pilots, grounded in the frozen North by bad weather, succumb to the lure of a strange Inuit woman​.

​First broadcast: 15 March 1985.
Original Story by Steven Freygood.
​Cast:  Benny Dougherty, Tom Regan, Anne Cameron, John Fulton, Marshall Button.
Episode 16: Free To A Good Home

A couple with a kitten to give away are constantly pestered on the phone by a mysterious and crotchety old woman.

​First broadcast: 22 March 1985.
Original Story by Paul Milliken.
​Cast: Nancy Beatty, Bruce Savage, Jack Mather, Roberta Creig, Chance Drewry, Brian Stittle.
Episode 17: Messages

A singer's telephone answering machine decides to take a hand in improving her career.

​First broadcast: 26 April 1985.
Original Story by David King.
​Cast: Gabrielle Rose, Nicola Cavendish, Meredith Bain Woodward, Brent Applegarth, Joseph Scala.
Episode 18: The Black Serpent

Vacationing on a Greek island, a woman has an encounter with a Goddess.

​First broadcast: 30 September 1985.
Original Story by Unknown.
​Cast: Unknown.
Episode 19: The Enormous Radio

A couple's new radio allows them to eavesdrop on their neighbours.

​First broadcast: 14 October 1985.
Original Story by John Cheever.
​Cast: Nancy Beatty, David Fox, Maya Ardel, Zoe Weldon, Brian Stittle, Barbara Budd, Tom Butler, Jill Frappier, Michael Kirby, Ray Landry, Wendy Thatcher.
Episode 20: Curse of The Unnamed Planet

An alien scout, disguised as a human child, is stranded on Earth.

​First broadcast: 21 October 1985.
Original Story by Alfred Silver.
​Cast: Saul Rubinek, Robin Craig.