DOOMWATCH is the kind of classic cult series that's just screaming out for a 2020 update. A thoughtful, green-leaning drama concerning the adventures of a team of investigators from the Department of ...

The BBC’s sci-fi drama Doomwatch hit the screens at the beginning of the 1970s, which accounts for its apocalyptic message. In an era of rapid advances, Doomwatch took cutting-edge science and ...

THE history of British telefantasy is littered with examples of television series that have been treated atrociously by the BBC. From Dr Who down the Corporation has wiped tapes, lost episodes and ...

University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from ...

Pedler teamed up with screenwriter Gerry Davis, with whom he'd previously created the Cybermen for Doctor Who, and between them they delivered a programme which struck a chord with audiences concerned ...

Playing on the public’s fear that ‘this could actually happen’, Doomwatch had a veneer of credibility unusual in the escapist television drama landscape of the late 60s/early 70s. This spring sees the ...

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific ...