The Mark Time Award is given each year to honor the
Year's Best Science Fiction Audio Production on the Planet.
The Ogle Award is for Best Fantasy/Horror Audio Production of the Year.

The American Society for Science Fiction Audio announces the Society's awards for the 2000 production year. The "Mark Time Award" is given to the best science fiction audio production of the year, and the "Ogle Award" for best Horror/Fantasy audio production. (The "Ogle" is named after Charles Ogle, who played the role of Frankenstein's Monster in Thomas Edison's 1910 film version of the classic tale.) Also, the Society occasionally presents its Grand Master Award, for lifetime achievement in SF Audio.

• The Gold Mark Time goes to "Tread Softly Bill Lizard", a five-episode story of Bill Lizard who has this cellular telephone that can take him to other dimensions. Producer, Roger Gregg, gathered some of the best voice talent in Ireland to make this richly produced 5-episode story for Irish National Radio. His first Bill Lizard story, "Time Out For Bill Lizard" won the Silver Mark Time Award in 1999. Find out more at the website of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.
  
  
• The Silver Mark Time is a tie. We found two productions that we felt were equally outstanding, but for very different reasons.
  • "Patch and Click", written and directed by Ed Lehmann, is a wildly imaginative and fast-moving serial about genetically enhanced animals in a sort of gangster underground story. It was produced at WMNF radio in Tampa, Florida.
  • "Flash Gordon, Episode One, The New Planet", taken from the original Flash Gordon comic strip of the 1930s. It is well acted and produced with a straight face by Glenn Carlson for the One Act Players of San Francisco, CA.
    

   

• The Gold Ogle is given this year to Otherworld Media's production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Produced and directed by David Ossman and Judith Walcutt for the Children's Museum of Los Angeles, it features turn-of-the-last-century music befitting its celebration of the centennial of the Frank Baum story. The cast includes Harry Anderson as the Wizard, Rene Auberjonois, Annette Bening, Phyllis Diller, John Goodman, Robert Guillaume, Mark Hamill and Michael Learned among many others.
  
  
• The Silver Ogle Award goes to "The Soul Patrol, Episode 6, "Bridge of Indecision." Written and produced by David Koenigsberg. It is part of a series of beautifully produced stories and is a well written and unpredictable tale filled with ethical dilemna and no easy answers.

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The Awards ceremony takes place at CONvergence 2001, a Minnesota Science Fiction Convention sponsored by MISFITS, the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy. ASFSFA wishes to thank the convention committee of CONvergence for their support of the Mark Time Awards. We would also like to express our appreciation for support from the National Audio Theatre Festivals.

Judges for the 2000 Mark Time and Ogle Awards weree:

• Richard Fish - LodesTone Media
• Meredith Ludwig - Radio Producer
• Brian Price - National Audio Theater Festivals
• Philip Proctor - Firesign Theatre
• Jerry Stearns - Great Northern Audio Theatre

Questions & Comments to Jerry Stearns at jerry@greatnorthernaudio.com.
Updated July 6, 2001.