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Script : Micheal Connor and Micheal Cramoy Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Lloyd Lamble, Bruce Seton, Ernest Clarke, Micheal Goodliffe Notes : Pennington Richards was also sometimes credited as C.M. Pennington-Richards. An experienced cinematographer, with work in this capacity such films as The Wooden Horse (1951), Scrooge starring Alister Sim (1951) and 1984 (1956), Richards had also been a producer for the 1956 TV series The Bucaneers. A later move into directing resulted in credits on such productions as Ivanhoe and Zero One.
Script : Ralph Smart Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Adrienne Corri, Erich Pohlmann, Martin Benson, Peter Sallis Notes : Peter Sallis is the voice of Wallace and Gromit and Clegg in the long running BBC sitcom The Last Of The Summer Wine. Other notable appearances include The Ghosts Of Motley Hall and Dr Who (The Ice Warriors). Adrienne Corri is perhaps one of England's most respected theatre actresses. Apart from her memorable appearance as Mrs Alexandria in A Clockwork Orange her TV credits include Adam Adamant Lives! (The Sweet Smell Of Success), the original Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Champions, Department S, UFO and Dr Who (The Leisure Hive). Erich Pohlmann starred in the 1955 Nigel Kneale play The Creature.
Script : Stanley Mann and Leslie Arliss from a story by Stanley Mann Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Dennis Price, Edwin Richfield, Barbara Chilcott, David Rich Notes : Stanley Mann would later write the films The Mouse That Roared (1959) and The Collector (1965) starring Terence Stamp. He would later pen Hollywood blockbusters - Damien : Omen II (1978), Meteor (1979), Eye Of The Needle (1981), Firestarter (1984) and Conan The Destroyer (1984). Edwin Richfield would later be a first season regular on the BBC series R3 and also appeared in Crane, The Avengers, Danger Man and Doctor Who.
Script : Lindsay Galloway from a story by Ralph Smart Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Zena Marshall, Lloyd Lamble, Rupert Davies Notes : Lindsay Galloway would also contribute scripts to the TV series Seaway (1964) and The Forest Rangers (1964). Zena Marshall was born in Kenya in 1927 and made three separate appearances in three episodes of Dangerman - Find and Return, The Leak and Fish on Hook. Lloyd Lamble would later appear in episodes of The Avengers playing Dr Hubert Marlowe in the episode The Gravediggers and The Prisoner portraying Stapleton in the episode Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. Whilst location filming for this episode members of the public attempted to stop what they thought was a runaway motorbike only to find it was driven by a hidden stuntman in the sidecar.
Script : Leonard Finchman and Leslie Arliss from a story by Leonard Finchman Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Derek Bond, Faith Brook, Margaret McCourt, Maureen Pryor, Micheal Ripper Notes : Leslie Arliss (1901 - 1987) had written many films in the forties and fifties, including The Wicked Lady (1945). He was also the producer of the fifties TV series William Tell. Derek Bond would later portray the third version of Hunter in the classic programme Callan.
Script : Leslie Arliss from a story by Robert Westerby Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : Helen Cherry, Colin Gordon, Hugh Latimer, Gary Thorne Notes : Robert Westerby provided the screenplay for the 1962 film starring Patrick McGoohan, Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow. He died in 1968. Acclaimed Shakespearean actress Helen Cherry passed away aged 85 on 27th September. Born in Manchester in 1915 Cherry's notable TV appearances included The Strange World of Planet X (1956) and The Professionals episode Lawsons Last Stand. She was married to actor Trevor Howard from 1944 and until his death in 1988.
Script : Ian Stuart Black from a story by Ralph Smart and Philip Levene Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Edward Judd, Greta Gynt, Redmond Phillips, Andre Mikhelson, Anthony Newlands, Irene Handl Notes : Philip Levene had appeared in the 1955 BBC series Quatermass II. He later made an appearance in The Avengers episode Who's Who???. Edward Judd's other cult TV credits include Out Of The Unknown, The Professionals and The Sweeney.
Script : Ian Stuart Black from a story by Leonore Coffee Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Hazel Court, Derek Godfrey, Harold Berens, Murray Kash Notes : Leonore Coffee was in 1896 in California. She began writing for cinema in 1919 (often uncredited) and was married to the film director William J Cowen. She died in 1984. Short built actor Johnny Scripps helped portray Peter Brady on screen. Scripps was employed to play the headless and raincoat wearing Brady and was able to see round the set through small holes built into buttons on the raincoat.
Script :Ralph Smart Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Honor Blackman, Phillip Friend, Jack Watling, Julian Somers, Leslie Phillips, Desmond Llewellyn Notes : Honor Blackman appeared as a vampire hunter in an episode of the spoof horror anthology Dr Terrible's House of Horror. Jack Watling was the father of actress Deborah Watling and was born in Essex in 1923. He started his screen career as a bit part player in British film in the late 1930's and slowly progressed Forties and Fifties to more substantial roles in such films as Reach For The Sky (1956) and The Admiral Crichton (1957). He was given meatier roles in TV playing Professor Travers opposite Patrick Troughton's Dr Who in the yeti adventure, The Abominable Snowmen and Geoffrey Winters in Jason King (It's Too Bad About Auntie). He was a regular character in the mid Sixties version of Dallas, The Power Game, and in the early Nineties became the semi regular character Frank Blakemore in the picturesque cop show Bergerac. In 1995 he reprised his role of Professor Travers in the Dr Who spin off video Downtime. Jack Watling was lost to cancer on 22nd May 2001. Desmond Llewellyn who played Q in the James Bond films also features in this episode. This episode would be reworked for Danger Man as the episode Josetta.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Dermot Walsh, Denny Dayvis, Micheal Brennan, Ralph Micheal, Ronald Fraser Notes : Dermot Walsh would play the title role in the 1962 TV series Richard The Lionheart. Micheal Brennan was born in 1912 and had appeared in the TV version of Quatermass II. He would later crop up playing Killer Karminski in The Prisoner episode The Girl Who Was Death. Actor Ronald Fraser was born in 1930 and was primarily known for his comedy and light entertainment roles. He was equally at home in more serious roles and notable TV appearances included Danger Man, Out Of This World (The Tycoons), The Avengers (The Gravediggers), Star Maidens, The Sweeney, Dr Who (The Happiness Patrol) and Virtual Murder ( A Dream Of Dracula). One of his last credit before his death in 1997 was on the Chris Evans entertainment show TFI Friday as The Lord Of Love.
Script : Doreen Montgomery and Ralph Smart Director : Ralph Smart Cast : Willoughby Goddard, Brian Rawlinson, Patricia Marmont Notes : Doreen Montgomery (1916 - 1992) is often credited with creating the character of Emma Peel for The Avengers. Willoughby Goddard also received credits in episodes of The Avengers (The Frighteners and Thingumajig), Out Of The Unknown (The Dead Past), The Sweeney and played the title role of the Space 1999 episode The Taybor. This episode features footage from the abandoned pilot programme.
Script : Ian Stuart Black from a story by Stanley Mann Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Walter Fitzgerald, Julia Lockwood, Colette Wilde, Alan Tilvern, Olaf Pooley Notes : Olaf Pooley was the villainous Professor Stahlmann in the Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who story Inferno. Walter Fitzgerald also appeared in a Doctor Who adventure - playing the character Senex in the 1968 story The Dominators. Alan Tilvern also had a role in Doctor Who during the William Hartnell era. He appeared in the 1964 adventure Planet Of The Giants.
Script : Micheal Cramoy Director : Pennington Richards Cast : Victor Platt, Jack Melford, Patrick Troughton, Robert Crawdon Notes : Amongst Micheal Cramoy's other scripting credits are The Saint (The Golden Frog, The Smart Detective and The Spanish Cow) and the episode It's Your Funeral from the seminal sixties show The Prisoner. Patrick Troughton appears alongside his future Dr Who assistant Deborah Watling in this episode. Watling would portray Victoria alongside fellow assistant Fraser Hines as Jamie in the long running science fiction programme.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Duncan Lamont, John Rudling, Patricia Jessel, Derren Nesbitt, Barry Letts Notes : Barry Letts began in his career as an actor and made appearance in episodes of R3, Redcap, The Avengers and City Beneath The Sea. He later became a director and would direct six Doctor Who adventures as well as produce most of the Jon Pertwee era. He also produced the earnest 1973 space drama Moonbase 3 in-between seasons of Doctor Who.
Script : Micheal Connors Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : Lana Morris, Ian Walllace, William Lucas, Bruce Seton, Jack Lambert Notes : Lana Morris (1930 - 1998) portrayed Helene Forsythe in the BBC series The Forsythe Saga. She was also a regular face on panel quiz shows in the late Sixties. Manchester born actor William Lucas will too many always be Dr James Gordon in the 1979's childrens drama production The Adventures Of Black Beauty and its later revival in 1990. Prior to appearing in The Invisible Man he was cast in The Strange World Of Planet X (1956) as David Graham. Later notable credits include Out Of This World (Dumb Martian), Redcap, The Avengers (Death's Door and Invasion Of The Earthmen), Doomwatch (Spectre At The Feast), Out Of The Unknown(The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow) and the Peter Davison era Doctor Who serial Frontios.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : James Raglan, Charles Grey, Ernest Clark, Sarah Lawson, Micheal Ripper, Ewen Solon Notes : Ewen Solon (1917 - 1985) also appeared in Doctor Who in two adventures - The Savages and The Planet Of Evil. The second series made more use of shots from Brady's perspective to inject more style into the show.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Mai Zetterling, Anton Diffring, Tony Church, Desmond Baxter Notes : Swedish born actress Mai Zettering was born in 1925 and made her first major appearance at the age of 19 in the Ingmar Bergman scripted Torment (1944). She starred opposite Danny Kaye in the 1954 Hollywood production Knock On Wood, but hated the Hollywood system and returned to Europe to appear in a string of British films before making her directorial debut in 1964 with Loving Couples, made in her native Sweden. Her second directorial effort, Night Games, arrived in 1966 and was based on her own novel and was a heavily Bergman influenced piece. In 1982 she wrote and directed the controversial British film Scrubbers which was a bleak look at women's prison. She returned to acting in 1990 and appeared in the Nicholas Roeg directed The Witches and the Ken Loach movie Hidden Agenda. She died in 1994 after a long battle with cancer.
Script : Ian Stuart Black from a story by William H Altman Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : Geoffrey Keen, Esmond Knight, John Harvey, Micheal Shepley Notes : Geoffrey Keen reached a career pinnacle of playing military or governmental types with his recurring role as The Minister Of Defence in the 1980's James Bond films For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill and The Living Daylights. He'd previously appeared in the Bond films Moonraker (as Frederick Gray) and The Spy Who Loved Me (again as The Minister Of Defence).
Script : Brenda Blackmore Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Bretta St John, Robert Gallico, Philip Leaver, Wolf Morris Notes : Robert Gallico played Manny Howard in The Persuaders! episode Five Miles To Midnight.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : Bruce Seton, Louise Allbritton, Paul Stassino, Charles Hill Notes : Bruce Seton had portrayed the popular Inspector Fabian in the Fifties police drama Fabian Of Scotland Yard. He died aged 60 in 1969.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Marla Landi, Austin Trevor, Paul Daneman, Arnold Marle, Reed De Rouen Notes : Paul Daneman passed away in April 2001. Amongst his other notable TV appearances include Out Of The Unknown (Too Many Cooks) and Blake's Seven (Killer). Arnold Marle had previously starred as the Lama of Rong-ruk Monastery in both the TV and film version of The Creature.
Script : Brenda Blackmore from a story by Leslie Arliss Director : Quentin Lawrence and Peter Maxwell Cast : Tim Turner, Leigh Madison, Lee Montague, Robert Raglan, Howard Pays Notes : Quentin Lawrence had previously directed The Trollenberg Terror (both TV and film versions) and would go onto direct episodes of The Avengers, Danger Man, Redcap, Public Eye, The Baron, Catweazle and Doomwatch. Tim Turner (Brady's voice) received his sole official credit on the show in this episode. He plays a smuggler who swathed in bandages uses Brady's stolen passport to smuggle drugs.
Script : Ian Stuart Black Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : Andre Morrel, Vivian Matalon, Nadia Regin, Andrew Keir Notes : This episode features both actors who portrayed Professor Bernard Quatermass in the TV and film version of Quatermass and the Pit. Andre Morrel was the rocket scientist for the classic BBC version, whilst Andrew Keir took the role for the equally classic Hammer film version.
Script : Micheal Pertwee Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Glyn Owen, Russell Waters, Robert Brown. Robert Raglan Notes : Micheal Pertwee (1916 - 1991) was the brother of Jon Pertwee and contributed scripts to both The Saint, The Return Of The Saint and The Persuaders!. He was also the writer of the films Digby The Biggest Dog In The World and The Mouse In The Moon.
Script : Tony O'Grady (AKA Brian Clemens) and Ian Stuart Black from a story by Tony O'Grady Director : Quentin Lawrence Cast : Conrad Phillips, Jennifer Jayne, Walter Gotell, Ian Hendry Notes : Conrad Phillips was born in 1930 and played William Tell in the 1958 series of the same name. He had further credits in programmes as diverse as The Prisoner (The General), Fawlty Towers, Into The Labyrinth and Emmerdale Farm. German born actor Walter Gotell (1924 - 1997) had such a huge swathe of appearances that any brief recap would certainly not do him any justice, but amongst his considerable appearances are the recurring character of General Gogol in all James Bond films from The Spy Who Loved Me to The Living Daylights (and a previous appearance as a different character in From Russia With Love).
Script : Ian Stuart Black from a story by Tony O'Grady (AKA Brian Clemens) and Robert Smart Director : Peter Maxwell Cast : William Squire, Barbara Shelley, John Arnatt, Notes : William Squire was born in Wales in 1916. His other notable credits include The Champions, Jason King, Blake's Seven (Horizon), Doctor Who (The Armageddon Factor), The XYY Man and as the fourth version of Hunter in Callan. He died 3 days after his 73rd birthday in 1989. Barbara Shelley would become a veteran of Hammer films and clock up later appearances in The Avengers (Dragonsfield and From Venus With Love), Man In A Suitcase (All That Glitters), Counterstrike, Blake's Seven (Stardrive) and Doctor Who (Planet Of Fire).
Director : Ralph Smart Notes : Robert Beatty provided the voice for Dr Peter Brady in the pilot. The pilot had a different theme tune which was more melodic and gentle. The pilot was felt to be too juvenile and along with some poor and unconvincing special effects it was decided to reshoot the project. Footage from the pilot was later used in the episodes Secret Experiment and Bank Raid. |
It would be another 16 years until a TV version of The Invisible Man was attempted. Produced in America and starring David McCallum it faired badly and was cancelled midway through its first season. The BBC would produce an accurate adaptation of Wells book in 1984 for their Sunday Classic Serial strand. The Fifties version was regularly repeated on both sides of the Atlantic up until the mid Sixties. It was later repeated by ITV towards the end of 1989 and has also been reshown by the satellite and cable station Bravo during the mid Nineties. The series was released by Network as a boxset in summer 2007. The release featured both seasons as well as the pilot episode, commentaries and booklet detailing the production of the series written by Andrew Pixley.
All episodes including the pilot episode exist. Transmission dates are for ABC (UK).
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