'Nightmare Gas' (3 Parts) by Don Houghton

Mr. Sweet is visited by Doctor Winthrop, who urgently needs help in locating a consignment of his deadly hallucinogenic gas known as ‘H23’, so called because it induces sleep and then horrifying nightmares in its victims, who then die of shock after just twenty-three minutes; the lorry containing the gas canisters was recently hijacked while en route to a dumping ground. After Mr. Sweet contacts Tarot and his friends, Lulli discovers that Winthrop’s former assistant Thalia Smith is involved in the theft. She takes the doctor to see Brigadier Connaught, but before they can reach him they are both captured by Thalia and her brother Dalbiac, and taken to their windmill hideout. Thalia plans to sell off the stolen consignment of ‘H23’, and plans to demonstrate its effects to her buyers by using the gas on Lulli and Winthrop. Lulli uses her telepathic link to Tarot to inform him of Thalia’s hideout, but when Tarot arrives he falls victim to the effects of the gas, and finds himself in the nightmare world of the English Civil War, about to be burnt at the stake for practicing sorcery…


Michael Mackenzie (Tarot), Tony Selby (Sam), Judy Loe (Lulli), Donald Layne-Smith (Mr. Sweet), Fred Owl (Ozymandias), Isobel Black (Thalia), Jonathan Newth (Dalbiac), Laurence Carter (Dr. Richard Winthrop), Lewis Wilson (Sergeant), Alan Chuntz (Trooper)

Directed by Ronald Marriott
Produced by Pamela Londsdale

TX:
Part 1 - 1st September 1971 @ 5.20 pm - 5.50 pm
Part 2 - 8th September 1971 @ 5.20 pm - 5.50 pm
Part 3 - 15th September 1971 @ 5.20 pm - 5.50 pm

Notes:
*Featuring Tarot, Sam Maxted, Lulli Palmer, Mr. Sebastian Sweet and Ozymandias

*This story no longer exists