UK, 20 January 1976
69m
videotape, colour, 4:3
mono, English
Series: Play for Today (1970-1984) – series 6, episode 13
A British fantasy television episode written by Eric Coltart and directed by Matthew Robinson.
Plot Summary
Doran is an electronics technician who is helping to monitor a sensory deprivation experiment in a remote laboratory who gradually starts to lose his belief in the scientific method. Driven over the edge by his work – which no-one involved really seems to understand – he finally snaps and puts his expertise learned in the rifle club to devastating use. Or does he…?
Credits
Crew
Director: Matthew Robinson
BBC Birmingham
Producer: David Rose
Production Unit Manager: Dawn Robertson
Written by: Eric Coltart
Script Editor: Pedr James
Studio Lighting: Bob Gell
Film Cameraman: Ken Morgan
Film Editor: Henry Fowler
Video-tape Editor: Tony Rayner
Studio Sound: Alastair Askham
Costume: Gini Hardy
Make Up: Jan Nethercot
Designer: Gavin Davies
Production Assistant: Robert Jacobs
Cast
Peter Eyre (Doran)
Susan Glanville (wife)
David Hargreaves (Gavitt)
Frederick Treves (Chief)
Anthony Douse (Dr Peel)
Tony Robinson (Matthews)
Robert Marsh (Graham)
Christopher Crooks, Stephen Lyons (subjects)
Morris Perry (Jones)
Alan Mitchell (Smith)
John F. Landry (neighbour)
Jonathan Sweet (reporter)
Jonathan Holt (archaeologist)
Leslie Dunn (newsreader)
Vincent Gray (studio presenter)
References
Periodicals
- The Listener vol.95 no.2442 (29 January 1976) pp.117-118
- Television Today 29 January 1976 p.13
