A.D.A.M. (1973)

Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 8 April 1973
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Running Times: 60m
Format: video
Colour Format: colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound:

DIRECTION

Direction: Michael Lindsay Hogg

CREW

PRODUCTION
Copyright: [not given]
Production Company: London Weekend
Producer: Verity Lambert

SCRIPT
[Written] By: Donald Jonson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Film Cameraman: Mike Humphreys

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Philip Wilkinson

SOUND
Film Sound: Alan Mills

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Emery

CAST

starring
Georgina Hale (Jean Empson)
Mark Jones (Roger Empson)

and
Madge Ryan (Jean's mother)

Tom Kempinski (Anthony Jackson)
Richardson Morgan (Hanley)
Willoughby Gray (Brigadier Perring)
Cicely Paget-Bowman (Kitty Perring)

and
Anthony Jackson (voice of A.D.A.M.)

PLOT SUMMARY

Disabled Jean Empson takes up residence in her new home, a high-tech haven designed by her husband Roger and regulated by the supercomputer A.D.A.M. (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor). Initially, it seems like a dream come true for Jean who finds her every need catered for. But A.D.A.M. soon turns nasty when it develops a lethal crush on his ward and tries to develop their relationship beyond the master/servant model for which it was designed...

SEE ALSO
The Demon Seed (1977)

BOOKS

The Encyclopaedia of TV Science Fiction (3rd edition) p.639
credits, review

KEYWORDS

artificial intelligence, computers, technology

Last Updated: 16 October, 2009