HANDS ACROSS THE SKY the 1st telefantasy opera original
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ARTIST : ANTHONY HOPKINS (Composer) (not the actor) / b/w CHARLES DIBDIN
TITLE : HANDS ACROSS THE SKY b/w THE GRENADIER
"Not to put down the Charles Dibdin contribution on this double album, shared half and half... but the Anthony Hopkins "Hands Across The Sky" is a holy grail among true sci-fi collectors... a holy grail in the true sense, as copies of this original BBC recording are not suppose to exist anymore. Making this a truly historical once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
A complete change of pace arrived on 7 February 1960 with Hands Across the Sky, the world's first (and only, until 1992's The Vampyr, that is) Telefantasy opera, composed by Anthony Hopkins. Professor Neutron (Eric Shilling) is devoted to his assistant, Miss Fothergill (Julia Shelley), but she is only interested in science. Until the arrive of the green-skilled alien Squeg (Stephen Manton), that is. The resolution to this menage-a-trois involved magic potions from Dr Jekyll's recipe book! Critical reception was good, although one does wonder with a libretto (by Gordon Snell) which included lines such as:
"I chased him through the uranium deposit,
And now he's locked himself in the heavy water closet."
According to The Listener: "Television accommodated the opera with no trace of strain. Voices and accompaniment were well balanced, and Charles Lefeaux's production had a visual inventiveness that never did violence to the formal structure." No copy is known to exist." Taken from an excellent website dedicated to early sci-fi
SUPER RARE RECORD - POSSIBLY AND PROBABLY THE ONLY KNOWN COPY IN EXISTANCE !!!!
CONDITION : SLEEVE is EX and EX
DISC is EX and EX
LABEL : BBC
CATALOGUE NUMBER : none... expriry date 10.6.64
RELEASE DATE : 1960?
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN : UK
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