1990: Ordeal By Small Brown Envelope (1978)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 13 March 1978
Running Times: 55 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Producer: Prudence Fitzgerald

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Edmund Ward

DIRECTION
Director: Kenneth Ives

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting: Howard King

MUSIC
Music: John Cameron

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Kim Burns

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Michael Young

CAST
Edward Woodward (Jim Kyle)
Robert Lang (Herbert Skardon)
Tony Doyle (Dave Brett)
Paul Hardwick (Faceless)
Lisa Harrow (Lynn Blake)
David McKail (PCD Insp Macrae)
Clive Swift (Tony Doran)
Stanley Lebor (Digger Radford)
Hermione Gregory (Jane Doran)
Jim Norton (Arthur Haynes)
Donald Burton (Harry Blaney)
John Saunders (Carter)

PCD introduces a new form of attack - ASH (Authorized Systematic Harassment), the bombarding of suspected dissidents with endless complex forms, bills and visits from threatening bailiffs. Chief among their targets are Kyle's associate Tony Doran who soon begins to crumble under the bureaucratic onslaught

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1978
March
13: UK TV (BBC2)

MAGAZINES

Time Screen no.7 (revised) p.29
availability

BOOKS

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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the future, journalists, political dissidents, repressive governments, totalitarianism

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009