Great News for the World TV Tapes
In the early 1970’s, Bre. Frank Abel and Peter Robinson did live religious call-in TV programs on the Kitchener Cable TV station. The station had a very limited viewer audience as was the case of Cable TV then. In 1976, Bro. Frank thought that programs should be made for commercial TV stations which would have a much wider audience. So in 1976 a committee was formed to do just that. In
August of 1977, 26 programs (2 later programs made to summarize the series) were made at the commercial Barrie TV station studio. They were titled ‘Great
News for the World’. For one year these programs ran on this station in Barrie at 12:00 noon on Sundays and later on Global TV in Toronto.
The tapes were made on 2 inch tapes necessary for commercial stations. They were then copied onto ¾ inch tapes for home viewing. These home tapes did not last long as ½ inch tape machines (VHS) replaced the ¾ inch variety. So more copies were made to fit the newer machines. The files now on this page are in the universal MP4 format and have been converted so that they can be played on present day computers. You will need a media player such as Windows Media Player installed on your computer – with the correct codecs installed. We have checked Windows computers with versions XP, Vista, 7 and Version 10. To work on Windows version 10, you will need to download a patch for Windows Media Player. We have not as yet found a way to play them on version 8.
Keep in mind that these tapes are at least 35 years old so the video is not pristine. Furthermore, when you convert from 2 inch to ¾ inch tapes to ½ inch tapes and then to digital files for computer use, you always lose some quality. However, having said that, they are still watchable. You will note that a few files have some video scrambling (for only a second or two). The audio is not scrambled during this time.
There were 28 programs in the series. Unfortunately, We have all files except programs # 5-8. They are found on one cassette tape. If you can help in locating these tapes, please us know via the contact us form.
Below is a list of the programs:
Program
# 1 – Return of Christ – Certain
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Jim Styles Program
# 2 – Return of Christ – Soon
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Jim Styles Program
# 3 – Resurrection
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Colin Badger Program
# 4 – Judgement
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Colin Badger Program
# 5 –
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Program
# 6 –
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Program
# 7 –
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro.
Program
# 8 – Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Program
# 9 – The Anti-Christ Identified
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Jim Styles Program
# 10 – Armageddon
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Jim Styles Program
# 11 – The House of Prayer
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Colin Badger Program
# 1 2 – God’s View of Human Nature
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Colin Badger Program
# 13 – Living Within Bible Teaching
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Bob Green Program
# 1 4 – The Bible Defended
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Peter Robinson Program
# 1 5 – The God of the Bible
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Bob Green Program
# 1 6 –The Origin of Man
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Peter Robinson Program
# 1 7 – The Identity of Jesus Christ
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 1 8 – Why Jesus Died
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Bob Green Program
# 19 – The Problem of Evil
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 20 – Devils,
Demons, Superstitions
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel G uest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 21 – The Angels
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Bob Lloyd Program
#22 – The Holy Spirit
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 23 – Baptism
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 24 – Salvation is Conditional
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 25 – What Happens at Death
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Rod Ghent Program
# 26 – It Matters What You Believe
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bro. Ron Abel Program
# 27 – Summary 1
Moderator: Bro. Rod Ghent Guests: Bre. Frank Abel, Ron Abel Program
# 28 – Summary 2
Moderator: Bro. Rod Ghent Guests: Bre. Frank Abel, Ron Abel
Revised List
January 2018
Since making this list, I have come across 3 audio programs on cassette tapes (no video). These are the missing ones noted above – Programs 5, 6 and 7. Still missing Program
# 8
Program
# 5 – Reward of the Faithful
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Rod Ghent Program
# 6 – Punishment of the Wicked
Moderator: Bro. Frank Abel Guest: Bob Lloyd Program
# 7 – The Jewish Resurgence
Moderator: Bro Frank Abel Guest: Jim Styles