UK, 24 October 1961
44m
videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
Series: A for Andromeda (1961) – episode 4
A British science fiction television episode directed by Michael Hayes.
Plot Summary
A year later, the protoplasmic lifeform, nicknamed Cyclops, created from the computer’s instructions continues to grow. Fleming discovers that two terminals attached to the alien computer are affecting the brainwaves of his team, but no-one is interested in listening. Christine, mesmerised by Cyclops, grabs the two terminals and is apparently killed by electric shock.
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)
Mary Morris (Professor Madeleine Dawnay)
Noel Johnson (J.M. Osborne)
Julie Christie (Christine)
Geoffrey Lewis (Doctor Geers)
Donald Stewart (General Vandenberg)
Hugh Lund (Lieutenant de Felice)
Peter Henchie (Egon)
John Hollis (Kaufman)
