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  Radio Fun, 50' Radio Programmes Dick Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Barton never commits an offense in the criminal code, no matter how desirable the means may be argued to justify the end.
Bartons enemies have more latitude in their behavior but they may not indulge in actually giving any injury or punishment that is basically sadistic.
Barton and his friends do not wittingly involve innocent members of the public in situations that would cause them to be distressed.
www.andmas.co.uk /radio/barton/dickbarton_2.htm   (347 words)

  
 Barton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Division of Barton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
Barton Hall is a National Historic Landmark in Colbert County, Alabama
Barton is also a common family name, most commonly derived directly from a location:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barton   (172 words)

  
 Dick Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Collar up, trilby at rakish angle, sleuth Dick Barton faces arch enemies Baron Scarheart and Marta Heartburn in an action packed adventure, aiming to rid the world of evil in the name of decency and patriotism, and concluding with a showdown in front of the Big Ben clockface.
Dick Barton speaks very clearly and is precise and intelligent.
He is the other henchmen of Dick Barton, but becomes the hero and the lover when Daphne comes and asks for help to look for her kidnapped father.
www.laser.demon.co.uk /Dick_barton.htm   (459 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton had a secretary called Jean, a bit like Miss Moneypenny, but she started to fancy him so she was written out.
Dick escapes the clutches of Marta and heads to Egypt, once again striving to save the free world while tormented by the warnings scribbled in the secret script of the Priests of Akhan Rah.
Dick Barton II is at the Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, from Thursday, February 8, to Saturday, February 17.
www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=22334   (442 words)

  
 Dick Barton Special Agent Review (1948)
Dick Barton (Don Stannard) is an expert detective and man of action who, along with his companions Snowey (George Ford) and Jock (Jack Shaw) is travelling to the small coastal village of Echo Bay, ostensibly on holiday.
Dick Barton Special Agent was scripted by its director Alfred J. Goulding and Alan Stranks, and was based on the hugely popular B.B.C. radio series of the day which related tales of derring-do and spy smashing to the homes of millions of listeners sat around their sets in rapt attention.
Not so fast, though, as Barton was only pretending to be shot (deliberately running the car off the road was entirely non-life-threatening, of course) and makes it to the village to meet up with his assistant Jean (Gillian Maude) and her housekeeper.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1291   (651 words)

  
 Steve Daly's OTR Page.
From this we learn that Richard Barton was born in High Wycombe on the 10th December 1912.
Dick tackles a gang of ex-nazis using germ warfare.
There are three stories which closely follow the original scripts: 'Dick Barton and the Secret weapon.', 'Dick Barton and the Cabatolin Diamonds.' and 'Dick Barton and the Lucifer Adventure.'.
www.angelfire.com /sd/crime/barton.html   (970 words)

  
 Dick Barton, Special Agent
Dick's Girlfriend (all too soon to be written out of the series for ever!) was Jean Hunter, played by Lorna Dermott, and the current villain, Manoel Garcia, was played by Brian Worth.
Although Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason wrote the radio scripts, Barton was actually created by BBC producer Norman Collins, who had visions of a "cloak and dagger soap opera" every evening.
There was an omnibus version every Sunday morning until the series ended on 3 October and the second series of Dick Barton began.
www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /radio/dickbarton.htm   (460 words)

  
 News & Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton first came to the attention of post-war BBC Light Programme fans in 1946 and his all-action, tongue in cheek adventures continued until 1951 when the series was killed off because of its supposed "bad influence" on youngsters of the day.
The whole set of Dick Barton is built like one of those old post war steam radios and that sense of imagination is spread right through the performance.
There's just a hint of innuendo which the "real" Dick Barton would never have allowed and it's easy, entertaining watching which is probably exactly what people want to wind down after a hard day's touring the Lake District or tramping the fells.
www.newsandstar.co.uk /news/viewarticle.aspx?id=248141   (443 words)

  
 indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Dick Barton V, The Excess of Evil, Warehouse Theatre, preview
Dick Barton Special Agent was first broadcast on BBC Radio, where the success of the show made Dick an icon in post war Britain.
Dick is a British institution comparable only with having one's nanny prepare afternoon tea or sharing a port with one's schoolmaster after prep.
Dick Barton Episode V: The Excess of Evil by Duncan Wisbey and Stefan Bednarczyk, with Ted Craig.
www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_dick_bartonV_warehouse_prev.html   (470 words)

  
 Dick Barton Driver Feature 8/16/2003
Heading into this weekend, Barton has 193 career win in the Late Models, and he is on pace to score 200 by the end of the season.
Barton and his crew will work intently the entire week before the show to make a strong run to victory lane.
Barton's two GRT chassis No. 28B are sponsored by The Bolt Place of Meadville, Raceway 7 of Conneaut, Ohio, Shawbucks and Qwik Lube Oil and Filter of Jamestown, N.Y., as well as Carrera Shocks.
www.tricityspeedway.com /driver-features/DickBarton03.html   (794 words)

  
 Seniors Network -Reminiscence
Although Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason wrote the radio scripts, Barton was actually created by BBC producer Norman Collins, who has visions of a "cloak and dagger soap opera" every evening.
But such is the cult of Dick that his popularity continues, into the next millenium.
In 2001, Dick, Snowy et al were brought to the stage, and even toured Great Britain.
www.seniorsnetwork.co.uk /reminiscence/dickbarton.htm   (297 words)

  
 Dick Barton at Bay (1950)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However, coming home from a cast party to celebrate the release of the previous film in the series, Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949), the star, Don Stannard, wrecked the car he was driving and was killed instantly.
This causes Barton to leap into action since he knew that his friend was assigned to protect a scientist working on a new "death ray".
Unfortunately for Barton evil enemy agents have already broken into the scientists home and stolen the scientist and his invention.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0042399   (580 words)

  
 Dick Barton
Dick tells us they had a wonderful visit and were treated royally for the occasion by all the wonderful people they met.
Dick is sharing some of the photographs he took during his visit and they give us a very interesting view of Upper Assam today--Thank you Dick
Dick tells us: It was a local troupe and the dance was - I think - a festival of Spring, but I'm not too sure.
www.koi-hai.com /dickbarton.html   (182 words)

  
 This Is Local London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton, one of the world's first super-spies and the inspiration for James Bond, is getting stuck into another thrilling case.
The popular character is being brought to life on stage at the Warehouse Theatre for the fourth year this time in a new tale of escape and adventure, The Flight of the Pheonix.
In this, the fourth episode of Dick Barton's adventures, our hero is released from his duties as a special agent by the British Government and sentenced to prison for a crime he did not commit.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /display.var.257442.0.0.php   (467 words)

  
 THE REPTILE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
DICK BARTON-SPECIAL AGENT is actually the worst of the three, in terms of vaudeville routines and stagey direction, but the print quality is excellent and the film does include the immortal line "I can't stand this waiting any longer.
DICK BARTON AT BAY, although the third film made in production order, was actually the second to be released.
DICK BARTON STRIKES BACK is a lot better, and moves at a pace, and is probably the only film in the history of the world to use the Blackpool Tower as a weapon of mass destruction!
www.hammerbooks.net /newfile60.htm   (264 words)

  
 Dick Barton Strikes Back Review (1949)
Meeting Creston at the airport is another secret agent, Dick Barton (Don Stannard) and his right hand man Snowey White (Bruce Walker), but at first Creston walks right past them without acknowledgement.
Barton approaches him, only to be told in hushed tones that Fouracada is a dangerous man, and that they should meet the agent in the Garcia Club later for the whole story.
This was the last Barton film to be made but the second to be released, perhaps because of its higher quality compared to Dick Barton At Bay, the second film produced, or perhaps because the first, Dick Barton Special Agent, was still doing good business.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1308   (647 words)

  
 Dick Barton
Dick Barton Special Agent / Dick Barton and the Curse of the Pharaoh's Tomb (2001, by Phil Willmott)
There were other differences: Dick was reduced to a single assistant, Snowy White, and he was reduced, too - in age.
Also Dick's first case was unlike anything he ever takled on radio.
www.thrillingdetective.com /barton.html   (796 words)

  
 Ohio Chamber of Commerce - Membership
Holl's sons, Barton S. and Richard H. "Dick," joined the company in the 50's and are the chairman of the board and the president and CEO, respectively.
Barton S., Dick Holl and Dick Brandt have followed in the footsteps of Barton A. Holl as presidents of the Logan Area Chamber of Commerce.
Dick Holl also worked his way up the ranks at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to become chairman in 1985.
www.ohiochamber.com /MemberServices/spotlightLoganClay.asp   (730 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Time to play at Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Called "Dick Barton, BBC Special Agent: The Flight of the Phoenix” and opening tonight, this “silly” farce brings a 1940s' British radio sleuth and sometime special agent and his two trusty sidekicks to life on stage for an about-as-rare-as-you-can-get local performance.
In the 1940s, Dick Barton, a squeaky clean investigator (Dick Tracy with an English accent) and the beloved star of Britain's first radio serial show, usually resorted to an array of clever crime-busting contraptions to nab his man.
Rome said the script for “Dick Barton” kind of fell into his lap when a theater associate working in Washington, D.C., recommended the British import.
www.timescommunity.com /site/tab5.cfm?newsid=15598072&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=511694&rfi=6   (485 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Dick Barton - Special Agent!
Dick Barton was an adventure serial on BBC radio which ran daily between 1946 and 1951 for a total of 711 episodes.
Playing Dick Barton was the actor Noel Johnson, who some dubbed 'the fastest man on radio' due to his ability to deliver dialogue accurately at a phenomenal speed.
Dick Barton returned briefly in 1972, to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A419249   (336 words)

  
 WhoWon.com ... The Internet Source for Motorsports News and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On the restart, Barton sped into turn one and the third place car of Isadore came to a sudden stop resulting in the cars of Doug Ricotta and Ritter to spin.
Dick Barton claimed second on lap two and tried to pressure Carley as Chad Ruhlman and David Scott moved into contention as Brewer slid back to fifth.
Scott, Barton, and John Lobb, who was back racing after suffering a serious arm injury earlier in the year, were now all contenders for second.
www.racefan.com /Results.asp?TrackID=1005&StoryID=122330   (1134 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton The Tango of Terror, is the must-see'
At 35, Mr Wilmot is hardly of an age to recall evenings glued to the wireless, listening to Dick Barton Secret Agent.
George Asprey as Dick Barton, Kit Benjamin as the BBC announcer, Kate Pinell as Daphne Fritters and Darrell Brockis as Jock Anderson all do well.
www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=31986   (266 words)

  
 Dick Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton - Special Agent was a popular radio program on the BBC Light Programme from 1946 to 1951.
Founded by the descendants of David Barton and Nancy Barrett, the association's aim is to preserve the various family histories.
Dick Bos (1956), beeldend kunstenaar, gespecialiseerd in gemengde technieken op papier en olieverven op doek.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Dick_Barton   (1270 words)

  
 1950's British TV Snippets - Dick Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton is facing the greatest struggle of his career - for survival.
Some BBC chiefs feel that Dick Barton has had his day.
In September, when the four-year-old serial returned to the air, the broadcasting time was moved to 6.15 instead of 6.45 after complaints that it kept children up too late.
www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /tv/memories/snippets/snippets4.htm   (178 words)

  
 Dick Barton Cartoons
Dick Barton cartoon 1 - catalog reference rro0037
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www.cartoonstock.com /directory/d/dick_barton.asp   (121 words)

  
 theatreguide-london- dick barton - 2001
Dick Barton - Episode II: The Curse Of The Pharoah's Tomb
Once again, Warehouse Theatre Company recreates the world of post-war radio hero Dick Barton where women are either distressed or fatale, villains the spawn of Johnny Foreigner, and trusty sidekicks add necessary lower-class cheeriness.
Dick and assistant Jock are still battling the forces of EFIL (Evil Foreigners in London), complicated by the curse of a ruby filched from the tomb of Ahkan Rah.
www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk /reviews/dickbarton01.htm   (285 words)

  
 BBC Shop - Dick Barton: Special Agent
Dick Barton: Special Agent, available at BBC Shop To view this product click on the link below.
Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero.
For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's gallop, herald another cliff hanging adventure for the smooth, crime-busting Barton and his friends, Snowey and Jock.
www.bbcshop.com /invt/0563226331&temp=audiobookcassetteEmail&layout=main&bklist=icat,3,,840   (245 words)

  
 March 8, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dick Barton, formerly Displaytech's Chief Operating Officer, has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
"Going forward, we are extremely fortunate to have someone of Dick Barton's caliber in position to pick up the leadership of the company." Dick joined Displaytech in 1997 as Chief Operating Officer and has continued in that position until today.
"Dick has driven manufacturing and engineering at Displaytech, helping to achieve the significant milestone of shipping over one million microdisplays during the first 12 months of volume production.
www.displaytech.com /news/pr/pr_mngmnt.html   (278 words)

  
 Dick Barton Theme Lyrics - by ELTON JOHN from album UNKNOWN : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of Dick Barton Theme by ELTON JOHN from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to Dick Barton Theme and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Dick Barton Theme But they are (Wrong)
www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/110825.html   (310 words)

  
 Mischa Barton - Everything on Mischa Barton (bio, latest news, photo gallery,...)
The O.C. Mischa Anne Barton (born January 24, 1986 in London, United Kingdom) is a British-American actress who has starred on the U.S. television shows The O.C. and Once & Again.
Barton was born in London and has appeared in such films as Notting Hill, The Sixth Sense, and Lost and Delirious.
LATEST: Mischa Barton's ex-boyfriend Brandon Davis has apologized to Lindsay Lohan, after launching a scathing attack on the young star..
www.world-of-celebrities.com /mischa_barton   (395 words)

  
 BW Online | January 13, 2003 | Rich Barton
In July, an independent board committee dominated by Barton allies told Diller he'd better bring a much bigger wad of money, calculating correctly that he would back off.
Barton is targeting American Express' travel business, which at $1.5 billion in revenue is nearly three times Expedia's size but exists largely to drive business to Amex credit cards.
So far, Barton has proved adept at using technology to squeeze costs out of the travel process.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_02/b3815627.htm   (641 words)

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