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 41: Strange Child

​A science fiction writer's young daughter doesn't seem the same following an encounter with a UFO.

​First broadcast: 22 December 1986.
​Original Story by Charles Tidler (based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
​Cast: Merrilyn Gann, Doug Abrahams, Laura Harris, Alessandro Giuliani, Joanna Schellenberg.

Episode 22: The Nine Billion Names of God

​A computer expert is hired by a group of Buddhist monks to run the ultimate computer program.

First broadcast: 18 November 1985.
Original Story by Arthur C. Clarke.
​Cast: Alan Royal, Gillie Fenwick.

Episode 23: Shoot The Unicorn

A photojournalist tracks down a lost Amazonian tribe.

​First broadcast: 25 November 1985.
Original Story by Charles Tidler.
​Cast: Tom McBeth, Steve Miller, Ted Stidder, Janet Hodgkinson, Thomas Hunt, Roger Nirman, D. C. Yates, Alana Shields, Gwyneth Harvey, Marcy Goldberg, Peter Ferrari, Alex Dycus, Paul Deckard.

Episode 24: The Language of Flowers

A keen gardener becomes obsessed with a strange, exotic orchid.
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​First broadcast: 2 December 1985.
Original Story by Hugh Atkinson.
​Cast: William Righter, Marion Eisman, Zena Daruwalla, Roger Norman, Walter Marsh, Robert Forsythe, Boyd Norman, Hugh Getnacourse, Judith Berlin.

Episode 25: The Last 30 Days of Charles L. Danforth

An accountant believes he and everyone around him are slowly turning into fish.

​First broadcast: 9 December 1985.
Original Story by Clem Martini.
​Cast: Stephen Hair, Mary Ann Moroni, Norris Dick, Eric Tully, Clem Martini.

Episode 26: Past Imperfect

​A scientist's nephew comes a cropper when he appropriates his uncle's newly-invented time machine for his own, nefarious purposes.

​First broadcast: 16 December 1985.
Original Story by John Douglas.
​Cast: Neil Munroe, Eric House, Robin Craig, John Baylis, John Douglas, Don Dickinson.

Episode 27: The Count's Wife

Giorgio's young wife Lucina starts to sprout wings.

​First broadcast: 23 December 1985.
Original Story by Dino Buzzati.
​Cast: Nicky Guadagni, Richard Monet, Norma Delaguanasi, Jill Frappier, Celestino De Uleis, Stephen Ouimette.

Episode 28: Split Second

A woman returns home from a walk to find strangers living in her house, and no-one knows who she is.
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​First broadcast: 6 January 1986.
Original Story by Daphne du Maurier.
​Cast: Fiona Reed, Chris Wiggins, Gillie Fenwick, Jay Bowen, Marian Gilsonan, Greg Ellwand, Maya Ardel, Jill Frappier, Karem Maliki-Sánchez, Anthony Parr.

Episode 29: I'm A Stranger Here Myself

After giving birth, a woman begins to believe she is an alien.

​First broadcast: 17 February 1986.
Original Story by Unknown.
​Cast: Unknown.

Episode 30: Antinomy

Romance does not survive a woman's cryogenic freezing when she is revived in the future.

​First broadcast: 10 March 1986.
Original Story by Spider Robinson.
​Cast:  Iris Quinn, John Dunsworth, Bill Carr, Carol St. Clair, Tom Regan, David Harley, Jamie Bradley​.

Episode 31: The Ultimate Threshold

A genius engineer regrets building a suicide machine.

​First broadcast: 31 March 1986.
Original Story by Herman Maximov.
​Cast: Geoffrey Bowes, Henry Reimer, Frank Perry, Michael Tate, Barbara Budd, Paulina Guiless, Karem Maliki-Sánchez, Maurice Godin, Angela Resacos.

Episode 32: The Rising of The North

Children's show 'What If?' examines the US President's radical plan to tackle his country's water shortage.

​First broadcast: 5 May 1986.
Original Story by Michael Riordan.
​Cast: Chris Wiggins, Nicky Guadagni, Ken James, Neil Munroe, Jane Eastwood, Ruth Springford, John Stalker, Margaret Potschue, Rosalind Goldsmith.

Episode 33: Death of A Physicist

A physicist attempts to calculate the best way to join a loved one in the afterlife.

​First broadcast: 12 May 1986.
Original Story by Christina Meeker and Peter Schultz.
​Cast: Eric Schneider, Meredith Goodwood, Barney O'Sullivan, Joseph Scala, Micky Monsel, James Johnston, Otto Lewey.

Episode 34: A Communicable Disease

An outbreak of a new, fatal disease seems to affect only yuppies.

​First broadcast: 19 May 1986.
Original Story by Larry Feinberg.
​Cast: Lally Cadeau, Don Harron, Bob Dermer, Don Dickinson, Cathy Gallant, Ken Pogue, Maya Ardol, Elliot McIver, John Stalker.

Episode 35: Closing Night

The director of a travelling theatre company encounters a strangely familiar ghost in a rundown hotel.

​First broadcast: 26 May 1986.
Original Story by Warren Graves.
​Cast:  Thomas Peacock, Judith Haynes, Joan Hurley, Blair Hayes, Jan Wood.

Episode 36: Certain Distant Suns

Hannah's aunt Bessie suffers the consequences when she loses her belief in just about everything.

​First broadcast: 30 June 1986.
Original Story by Joanne Greenberg.
​Cast: Andrea Martin, Helen Hughes, Susan Rubish, Earl Pennington, Janet McDonald, Francine Volker, Layne Coleman, Richard McMillan, Aaron Schwartz.

Episode 37: The Artist of The Beautiful

A robotics engineer strives to create a miniature robot endowed with a sense of beauty.

​First broadcast: 17 November 1986.
Original Story by Charles Tidler (based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
​Cast: Blue Mancouma, Ron Holder, Bea Beckley, Paul Baton, Barney O'Sullivan, Rick Scott, Leroy Schultz.

Episode 38: Rappaccini's Daughter

After a lifetime's work helping her father breed plants which can withstand a nuclear winter, Professor Rappaccini's daughter has become toxic.

​First broadcast: 1 December 1986.
Original Story by Charles Tidler (based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
​Cast: Stefanic Gournay, Chris Frozatti, Annabel Kershaw, Natino Bellantoni, Jim Crescenzo.

Episode 39: The Headless Clown

An unemployed cobbler's luck turns when he comes into possession of a talking clown-head doll.

​First broadcast: 8 December 1986.
Original Story by Charles Tidler (based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
​Cast: Tom Heaton, Janet Hodgekinson, David Peterson.

Episode 40: Deep Desire

A television evangelist believes he is possessed by a demon snake.

​First broadcast: 15 December 1986.
Original Story by Charles Tidler (based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
​Cast: Blue Mancouma, Owen Thoran, Donna Peerless, Tom McBeth, Christoper Gaze, Betty Phillips, Micky Monsell, Jean Wolfe.