Play For Today: Stronger Than the Sun (1977)

Date of Original Broadcast: 18 October 1977
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: colour
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Margaret Matheson

SCRIPT
Script: Stephen Poliakoff

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Apted

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Elmer Cossey

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: David Martin

MUSIC
Music: Howard Blake

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costumes: Amy Roberts

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Susan Spence

CAST
Francesca Annis (Kate)
Tom Bell (Alan)
Clive Merrison (Gregory)
John Proctor (Edwards)
Gerald James (Higby)
Albert Welling (Bruce)
Bridget Ashburn (Joan)
Anne Aris (Margaret)
Duncan Faber (urban guerilla)
Fred Gaunt (Yorkshire journalist)
Mark Wing-Davey (Brian)
Hugh Thomas (Kendal)
Tony Doyle (London journalist)
Mark Hindley
Nick Ross
Fred Crosseley
Peter Lorenzelli
Nick Edmett
Toby Salaman
Robert Hamilton
David Hargreaves
Bert Gaunt
Robert Lefever
Philip Donaghy
Robert Milton
Ken Sicklen
Hilary Gasson
Niall Padden

SUMMARY

Nuclear power plant worker Kate learns that the facility she works in is heading for a cataclysmic accident. She tries to raise the alarm, but no-one seems interested - except for the shadowy security services who want her silenced before someone does start to take notice.

TIMELINE

1977
October
18: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1978
February
21: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

2003
May
14: UK - television broadcast (on BBC4)

2006
March
5: UK - television broadcast (on BBC4)

REFERENCES

BOOKS

The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (3rd edition) pp.671-672
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KEYWORDS

nuclear power plants

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009