Ace of Wands: Nightmare Gas (1971)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 September 1971 - 15 September 1971
Number of Episodes: 3
Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Thames Television
Producer: Pamela Lonsdale

SCRIPT
Script: Don Houghton

DIRECTION
Direction: Ronald Marriott

MUSIC
Theme Song: Andrew Bown, Trevor Preston (Tarot)
Song Performed By: Andrew Bown (Tarot)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Harry Clark

MISCELLANEOUS
Magic Advisor: Ali Bongo

CAST
Michael Mackenzie (Tarot)
Tony Selby (Sam)
Judy Loe (Lulli)
Donald Layne-Smith (Mr Sweet)
Isobel Black (Thalia)
Jonathan Newth (Dalbiac)
Laurence Carter (Dr Richard Winthrop)
Lewis Wilson (Sergeant)
Alan Chuntz (trooper)
Fred the Owl (Ozymandias)

PLOT SUMMARY

The deadly hallucinogenic H23 gas (which induces horrific lucid nightmares) has been stolen by Thalia Smith and her brother Dalbiac. When her former employer and the gas' creator Dr Richard Winthrop ordered the experiment to be ended, she hijacked a convoy carrying the gas to be destroyed. Tarot and the others must find the missing gas before it's too late...

1971
September
1: UK - Episode One television broadcast (on ITV)
8: UK - Episode Two television broadcast (on ITV)
15: UK - Episode Three television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

magicians; psychics; gas; nightmares