Science Fiction

The Fourth Tower of Inverness.

The mansion has three towers. Jack Flanders has seen a fourth. Enter The Fourth Tower of Inverness on Heritage Radio Vault, the ZBS fantasy audio adventure featuring Jack Flanders. An impossible tower opens the way to strange worlds, metaphysical puzzles and discoveries that challenge ordinary perception.

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The Fourth Tower of Inverness: Programme Guide.

Jack Flanders discovers a tower that everyone else insists is absent. The Fourth Tower of Inverness turns an old mansion into the entrance to a humorous adventure through other levels of experience.

Broadcast history.

ZBS first released the radio serial in autumn 1972 as sixty-five short weekday episodes. Later album and CD versions regroup the story and remove much of the daily recap and preview material.

Cast and creative team.

Robert Lorick plays Jack, with Valerie Mamches as Lady Jowls and Murray Head as Lord Jowls. Meatball Fulton writes and directs, Tim Clark supplies music and Bobby Bielecki engineers the production.

Where to begin.

There Is No Fourth Tower · Two Bear Feet

These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.

An interesting detail.

The thirty-four HRV records resemble the longer-release chapter divisions, not thirty-four of the original daily slots. A record count cannot be compared with sixty-five without first identifying the version and segmentation.

Listening appeal.

Begin with There Is No Fourth Tower, then Two Bear Feet. The producer’s release information and detailed contents list provide a more useful order than the current catalogue’s arrangement.

Collection and date notes.

HRV lists 34 public recordings. The isolated Part 10 label and exact release provenance need comparison with the source version before certifying completeness. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.

Sources.

Choose your next episode.

34 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.

34 episodes available.

Questions about The Fourth Tower of Inverness.

Do thirty-four records automatically prove thirty-one daily episodes are missing?

Different release versions divide the same story differently.

Is the first visible title necessarily the opening?

The documented longer-release opening is There Is No Fourth Tower.

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