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Alternative 3 (1977)
Country of Origin: UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 20 June 1977
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 52 mins
Format: colour
Sound:
CREDITSPRODUCTION
Production Company: Anglia Television
Executive Producer: John Woolf
Producer: John Rosenberg
Associate Producer: Robert Bell
SCRIPT
Script: David Ambrose
DIRECTION
Director: Christopher Miles
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Richard Crafter, Ian Craig
EDITING
Editor: Michael O'Halloran
MUSIC
Music: Brian Eno
SOUND
Sound Recording: Dennis Arundell
Dubbing Mixer: Charles Earl
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Terry Ackland-Snow
Graphics: Colin Baldwin
MISCELLANEOUS
Scientific Advisor: Arthur Garrett
CASTING
Casting: Jenia Reissar
CAST
Tom Brinton (himself)
Gregory Munroe (Colin Benson)
Carol Hazell (Katherine White)
Shane Rimmer (Bob Grodin)
Richard Marner (Dr Carl Gerstein)
David Baxt (Harry)
Alec Linstead (Professor Broadbent)
Norman Chancer (Charles Welbourne)
Anthony Roye (Robert Hendry)
Patsy Trench (Dr Ann Clarke)
Phoebe Nicholls (Harry's girlfriend)
Ivor Roberts (George Pendlebury)
Linda Cunningham (Annie)
Nancy Adams (Doreen Patterson)
Jonathan Hieatt-Smith (man in laboratory)
Alice Wade (Mrs Pendlebury)
PLOT SUMMARYAs the global ecology collapses, a team of television
journalists uncovers a plot by the world's governments which involves
the abduction of top scientists. Their investigations are initiated
by the accidental death of courier who was carrying a tape apparently
containing a top secret radio broadcast from an unmanned Mars probe...
ALTERNATIVE TITLESScience Report
Science Report: Alternative 3
LINKSWEB LINKS
www.mystical-www.co.uk/alt3.htm
REFERENCESMAGAZINES
The Listener
vol.97 no.2514 (23 June 1977) p.823
review
The Listener
vol.97 no.2515 (30 June 1977) p.858
review
BOOKS
The Encyclopedia
of TV Science Fiction (3rd edition) pp.639-640
review, credits
KEYWORDS
end of the world, ecology, pollution, over population, mars,
the moon, scientists, conspiracies, fake documentaries, journalists
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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