1990: Hire and Fire

Date(s) of Broadcast: 20 March 1978
Running Times: 55 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Edmund Ward

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting: Alan Horne

MUSIC
Music: John Cameron

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Kim Burns

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Hurst

CAST
Edward Woodward (Jim Kyle)
Robert Lang (Herbert Skardon)
Tony Doyle (Dave Brett)
Lisa Harrow (Lynn Blake)
Yvonne Mitchell (Kate Smith)
David McKail (PCD Insp Macrae)
Stanley Lebor (Digger Radford)
David Buck (George Molloy)
Ken Kitson (Johnny Rolfe)
James Greene (Gerald Arnold)
John Bolt (Bott?) (James Conrad)
Joseph Brady (Ernest Harrison)
Simon Cadell (Robert Jessup)
Sally Travers (Mrs Hutchinson)
Colin Douglas (Joe Hutchinson)
Michael Cassidy (Alf Turner)
Eric French (non-citizen)

A brutal network of extortionists is taking money from the downtrodden workforce. Their attentions soon turn to Kyle and he unexpectedly finds himself fighting the same people as his sworn enemy, PCD Controller Skardon.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1978
March
20: 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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Time Screen 7 (revised) p.29
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the-future; repressive-governments; totalitarianism; political-dissidents; journalists; extortion