Tag: BBC1

The Day Of The Triffids: Episode 1

The Day Of The TriffidsThe first episode of BBC1’s adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids premieres, based on John Wyndham’s novel. W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah: Last Chance

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe sixth and final episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah: Housing Problem

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe fifth episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah: Who Goes Home

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe fourth episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah: To The Rescue

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe third episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah: In Orbit

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe second episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. Read more

Come Back, Mrs. Noah

Come Back, Mrs. NoahThe pilot episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. The remaining five episodes are to be aired in 1978. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

The Changes: The Cavern

The ChangesThe tenth and final episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975; an entire generation of young viewers will go on to consider the short series a seminal event in UK genre TV. Read more

The Changes: The Quarry

The ChangesThe ninth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Tom Chadbon (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) and Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest star. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: Lightning!

The ChangesThe eighth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. Tom Chadbon (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: Heartsease

The ChangesThe seventh episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: A Pile Of Stones

The ChangesThe sixth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: Witchcraft!

The ChangesThe fifth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: Hostages!

The ChangesThe fourth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: The Devil’s Children

The ChangesThe third episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: The Bad Wires

The ChangesThe second episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more

The Changes: The Noise

The ChangesThe first episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Bernard Horsfall. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Moonbase 3: Departure And Arrival

Moonbase 3The first episode of the BBC’s short-lived science fiction series Moonbase 3, premieres. Written by series creators Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, and produced during their downtime as producer and script editor of Doctor Who, Moonbase 3 is an attempt to do “serious” SF without fanciful elements such as aliens. Read more

Doomwatch: Killer Dolphins

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 37th episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives. Due to its controversial content, the following episode, Sex And Violence, is never broadcast by the BBC, and production on the series is shut down before the planned 13th and final episode of the season can be filmed, effectively making Killer Doplhins the series’ broadcast swan song.

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Doomwatch: Cause Of Death

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 35th episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Nicholas Courtney (who is, at this time, still appearing in Doctor Who as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Doomwatch: Flood

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 35th episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Doomwatch: Enquiry

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 34th episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Michael Keating (Blake’s 7), no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Doomwatch: Deadly Dangerous Tomorrow

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 33rd episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) and Marc Zuber (The Changes) no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Doomwatch: Without The Bomb

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 31st episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Doomwatch: Say Knife, Fat Man

DoomwatchBBC1 airs the 29th episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures) no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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