1990: Decoy

Date(s) of Broadcast: 3 October 1977
Running Times: 55 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Producer: Prudence Fitzgerald

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Edmund Ward

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting: Alan Hall
Film Cameraman: Peter Chapman

MUSIC
Music: John Cameron

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Rochelle Selwyn

CAST
Edward Woodward (Jim Kyle)
Robert Lang (Herbert Skardon)
Tony Doyle (Dave Brett)
Paul Hardwick (Faceless)
Barbara Kellerman (Delly Lomas)
Clifton Jones (Henry Tasker)
George Murcell (Greaves)
Graham Crowden (Dr Sondeberg)
Victor Maddern (Sammy Calhoun)
Anthony (Antony?) Scott (Kingston)
George Mallaby (Carr)
Alan Tucker (Bowden)
Phyllida Nash (reporter)
Jonathan Adams (PCD officer)

While Dr Sondeberg, a key global political player, visits the UK, Kyle hatches a plan to use a motorised caravan to smuggle a select team of psychiatrists, geneticists and bio-chemists out of the country to the safety of South America.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

"There's little sense of the society as a whole. One advantage of this is that director Alan Gibson can focus on the central struggle without getting bogged down in political niceties. However, there is an air of unreality and contrivance not avoided by some splendidly unforced acting, and more concrete detail of the way we may live then would, I think, have helped to make the message reverberate further and louder." - Brendan Hennsessy, Television Today 6 October 1977 p.16

1977
October
3: UK TV broadcast (BBC2)

The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (3rd edition) pp.275-278
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The Complete Directory to Science Fiction and Horror Television Shows pp.580-581
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Search for Information on Film and Television database (British Film Institute)
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Television Today 6 October 1977 p.16
review (by Brendan Hennsessy)

Time Screen 7 (revised) p.29
availability

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