UK, 14 November 1961
45m
videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
Series: A for Andromeda (1961) – episode 7
A British science fiction television episode directed by Michael Hayes.
Plot Summary
It’s now 1972 and whatever has been sending the message from Andromeda has stopped. Fleming and Dawnay have been infected by an enzyme created by the computer in revenge for his attempts at misleading it. Andromeda tries to kill him and confesses that she is a slave of the computer which is trying to take over humanity.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Michael Hayes
BBC
Produced by: Michael Hayes, Norman James
Written by: John Elliot
Based on a Story by: Fred Hoyle
Film Camera: Peter Sargent
Film Editor: Agnes Evan
Designed by: Norman James
Cast
Esmond Knight (Professor Ernest Reinhart)
Peter Halliday (John Fleming)
Patricia Kneale (Judy Adamson)
Noel Johnson (J.M. Osborne)
Julie Christie (Andromeda)
John Rowlands (operator)
Jack May (Major Quadring)
Tony Valentine (corporal)
Barry Jackson (first sentry)
Derek Lanyon (second sentry)
