Before James Bond, there was Dick Barton: Special Agent! Between 1946 and 1951, Dick Barton's thrilling nightly adventures on the BBC's Light Programme attracted a record-breaking 15 million listeners and enthralled an entire nation. The serial proved so popular that it spun off into three hugely successful feature films from the fledgling Hammer Films. While virtually all the original BBC radio shows have been lost, these three Hammer feature films still survive and are made available for the very first time in this DVD collection.Don Stannard takes the title role... in all three films, fighting fiendish foreign conspirators armed with secret super-weapons that threaten the British nation. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In the dark days after World War II over 15 million listeners tuned in to the BBC’s Light Programme to hear the exploits of Dick Barton Special Agent who saved the nation from a never-ending roll call of villains and ceaseless skulduggery This DVD set brings together the three Dick Barton feature films made by Hammer Films based on the radio series Don Stannard plays the legendary hero of the airwaves influencing a generation of secret agents to come including James Bond and The Avengers DICK BARTON SPECIAL AGENT - Dick Barton and his assistants Jock Snowey and Jean’s plans for a relaxing holiday by the sea are thwarted when they stumble upon a sinister Nazi plot to unleash a deadly chemical virus and bring the nation to its knees Will Dick and friends be able to save the day? DICK BARTON STRIKES BACK - The mysterious and sinister Fouracada (Sebastian Cabot) arrives in England capturing the attention of the country’s top agents Soon the bodies are piling up and Barton and Snowey have another mystery to solve as the population of entire villages are being wiped out their brains dehydrated and shrivelled without a mark left on the bodies What device could be capable of such destruction? And can it be stopped? DICK BARTON AT BAY - Barton and Snowey are forced into action once more when an undercover agent (Patrick Macnee) is murdered while passing on a coded message A chilling new invention capable of producing a "death ray" has been stolen by the Russians Barton is forced to fake his own death in a race against time to recover the device from enemy hands…
Trilogy of classic films following the adventures of Dick Barton, a former commando turned crime-stopper. In 'Dick Barton, Special Agent' (1948), the first in the trilogy, Dick (Don Stannard) is assigned to investigate some strange and sinister goings-on at a quiet English seaside resort. He uncovers a Nazi germ warfare plot, which, if he does not act swiftly, may result in a deadly outbreak of cholera across Britain. In 'Dick Barton Strikes Back' (1949) a sinister sound ray is threatening the nation. Dick sets out to track down the source of the disturbance, an investigation which leads him into a terrifying showdown with the sound ray's inventor, Fouracada (Sebastian Cabot), at the top of Blackpool Tower. In 'Dick Barton at Bay' (1950), the third in the trilogy, Dick and his partner, Snowey (George Ford), must race against time to rescue an important weapons scientist. Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his beautiful daughter, Mary (Joyce Linden), have been kidnapped, along with the professor's latest invention: a ray that can cause any unstable element aboard an aircraft to explode in flight...
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