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1990: Health Farm (1977)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 26 September 1977
Running Times: 55 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Producer:
Prudence Fitzgerald

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Edmund Ward

DIRECTION
Director: Kenneth Ives

MUSIC
Music:
John Cameron

SOUND
Sound: Alan Fogg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Robert Berk
Graphics: Alan Jeapes

CAST
Edward Woodward (Jim Kyle)
Robert Lang (Herbert Skardon)
Tony Doyle (Dave Brett)
Paul Hardwick (Faceless)
Barbara Kellerman (Delly Lomas)
John Savident (Dan Mellor)
George Murcell (Greaves)
Michael Napier Brown (Jack Nichols)
Mathias Kilroy (Tommy Pearce)
Donald Douglas (Dr Gelbert)
Ray Smith (Charles Wainwright)
Howard Bell (Halloran)
Mitzi Rogers (Agnes Culmore)
John Rhys-Davies (Ivor Griffith)

SUMMARY

Kyle's bosses assign him to investigate one of the ARCs (Adult Rehabilitation Centres) and learns that a leading trades union leader has been marked for brainwashing. Kyle has to find a way to warn the man before the PDC can carry out its plan.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

TIMELINE

1977
September

26: UK TV (BBC2)

REFERENCES

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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Time Screen 7 (revised) p.29
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KEYWORDS

the-future; repressive-governments; totalitarianism; political-dissidents; journalists; brainwashing; unions

 


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