Story Parade: The Caves of Steel [1964]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 5 June 1964
Episode Running Times: 75 mins
Format: black and white
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Eric Taylor

DIRECTION
Director: Peter Sasdy

SCRIPT
Script: Terry Nation
Novel: Isaac Asimov
Story Editor: Irene Shubik

MUSIC
Music: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

SOUND
Sound Effects: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costumes: Dorothea Wallace

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Jack Kline, Bernard Wilkie

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designers: Richard Henry, Peter Seddon

CAST
Peter Cushing [Elijah Baley]
John Carson [R. Daneel Olivaw / murdered scientist - uncredited]
Kenneth J. Warren [Commissioner Enderby]
Ian Trigger [R. Sammy]
Ellen McIntosh [Jessie Baley]
Stanley Walsh [Simpson]
John Boyd-Brent [Clousar]
Naomi Chance [Dr Gerrigel]
John Wentworth [Dr Fastolfe]
Richard Beale [Controller]
Richard Beint [shoe shop manager]
Patsy Smart [customer]
Hennie Scott [Ben Baley]
Nicholas Brent [guard]
Bill Cartwright, Michael Earl [men]
Stanley Mason, Albert Johnson [robots - uncredited]
Liz Body, Faith Hines Valerie Minerva [women - uncredited]
Alan Vicars, John Doye, Mickie Baker, Leslie Conrad [travellers - uncredited]
Alan Vicars, John Doye, Mickie Baker, Leslie Conrad, Derek Martin, Joseph Cohen, Pat Gorman, Alistair McFarland [policemen - uncredited]
Derek Chafer, Pat Gorman [space guard - uncredited]

New York, the future: a Spacer scientist from the Outer Worlds is murdered and Detective Elijah Baley is assigned to investigate. He has just 48 hours to bring the killer to justice before the aggrieved Outer World forces take their own revenge on New York. To help him, Baley is given a new partner, the positronic robot R. Daneel Olivaw, an agent of the Spacers.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC2

Archive Holdings
The play no longer exists in any form in the BBC archive.

1964
April
15: UK - rehearsals begin

May
4: UK - rehearsals end
5: UK - camera rehearsals begin
7: UK - camera rehearsals end; studio recording takes place in Studio One, BBC Television Centre

June
5: UK - television broadcast [on BBC]

August
28: UK - television broadcast [on BBC]

MAGAZINES

Time Screen no.7 [revised] p.23 [UK]
credits, review

BOOKS

Encyclopedia of Television Science Fiction [3rd edition] pp.644-645
credits, article

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.60
credits

KEYWORDS

book into film, cities, detectives, the future, robot, scientists

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007