The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 9
TODAY on Virtual Community Radio — Friday, November 19th.
The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues with Week 9 of this exciting mystery adventure.
Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and midnight in the UK.
Arriving at the Inverness estate, Jack Flanders encounters strange happenings at the old Victorian mansion. Jack is told that there are only three towers in Inverness, even though he is certain he has seen a fourth. An old jukebox, which he cannot locate, plays a haunting 50’s tune just before an accident happens. Jack pursues the hidden jukebox, searching through sliding panels, hollow walls, and underground passageways until finally he discovers the entrance to the Fourth Tower that only he can see. In all these years, eight people have ventured into the Tower, never to be seen again. Jack is the ninth…
Upon entering the tower, Jack discovers steps that spiral endlessly upward. On each level there is a door, and as our hero opens each door he steps into different dimensions: strange worlds of myth and mystical fantasy.
The Fourth Tower of Inverness is classic radio, a humorous adventure, with many levels of meaning behind the mystery. It is a beautiful allegory of illusion and reality. This classic story is filled with all kinds of teachings, from Ram Dass playing on the Wurlitzer of Wisdoms, to the Tibetan wheel-of-life, to Sufi stories, all woven into a humorous adventure.
Jack Flanders – Robert Lorick
Little Frieda – P.J. Orte (Billed as Pat Anderson)
Narrator and Dr. Mazoola – Dave Herman
The Madonna Vampyra – Laura Esterman
Chief Wampum and Old Far-Seeing Art – Meatball Fulton
Lord Henry Jowls – Murray Head
Meanie Eenie & Lady Sarah Jowls – Valerie Mamches
Intro-Outro themes – Paul Combs
Outro-Announcer – Mark Stone
Voice in Whirlitzer – Ram Dass
Engineering – Bobby Bielecki (Billed as Virgil Snakeskin)
Written and directed — Meatball Fulton
The performer playing Jives the Butler was uncredited; he was the husband of Valerie Mamches, who played Meanie Eenie and Lady Jowls.
Special thanks to Robert Durand, The Jefferson Airplane, John Romkey, Michael Roach, Augie Blume, Max & Miles and all the gang at ZBS.
Back in 1972, Augie Blume, promotions man for RCA Records and Jefferson Airplane stopped by the ZBS radio commune, asked what they were up to. They took him to the studio and played him a couple of episodes (then in production), and Augie said, “Maybe we can do something together?” Jefferson Airplane’s label, Grunt Records, sponsored the 4th Tower. It was sent to 400 radio stations. This was back in the days of reel-to-reel tape. There were 65, daily, 7‑minute episodes. And also 13 half hours (the dailies edited into half-hour programs for weekend plays — which is the version we are presenting). So each station received 26 reels of tape!