Play of the Week: Countdown at Woomera (1961)

UK, 13 June 1961
90m
35mm film, black and white, 4:3
mono, English

A British science fiction television play directed by Cyril Coke.

Plot Summary

Scientists plan the first British mission to the moon.

Credits

Crew
Director: Cyril Coke
Associated-Rediffusion Television
Script: Henry Bentinck
Designer: Frederick Pusey

Cast
Neil McCallum (Robert McKerrell)
Patrick Barr (General O’Connor)
Sylvia Kay (Margaret Paisley)
John Miller (Prime Minister)
Edward Harvey (Home Secretary)
John Glyn-Jones (Dr Newton)
Allan Cuthbertson (Superintendant Steel)
Michael Blakemore (Public Relations Officer)
John Tate (Professor Leighton)
John Welsh (Sir Robert Trevelyan)
Fred Abbott, Roger Clayton, Brian Dent, George Roubicek (trackers)
Terence Bayler, John Matthews, John Read, David Ryder, Alister Smart, Charles Stanley, Leon Thau, Maurice Travers (checkers)
Ian Anderson
Lorne Cossette
Jeffrey Gardiner
Ernest Hare
John Herrington
Robert Hewitt
Lesley Jackson
Annette Kerr
Trevor Maskell
Max Miradin
Bobby R. Naidoo
Ben Nightingale
Edmund Otero
Howard Pays
Mira Tomek
Paul Williamson
Alan Wilson
Terence Woodfield