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Episodes

Season 1, 10 episodes

Episode 1: King's Gambit
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- 50m
- Sep 8, 1969
Two apparently respectable businessmen, running an electronics factory, are investigated by a journalist called Simon King. The businessmen turn out to be far from respectable and the journalist, they discover, is not a journalist. Who is Simon King, or rather, what is he?
Episode 2: Joker One
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- Sep 15, 1969
Every war has a flashpoint, a fuse, a detonator—something, however small, that triggers it. In 1914, it was an assassin's bullet at Sarajevo. What could trigger an atomic war today? The Centaurans think they have the answer. And Simon, of all people, appears to be helping them...
Episode 3: On Ice
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- Sep 22, 1969
Three scientists are mysteriously lost on a sledging party that set out from a polar research station.
Episode 4: Nocturne
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- Sep 29, 1969
The madman lives in a No-Man's-Land a borderline between fantasy and reality... where the real becomes unreal, the unreal real, and life itself a waking nightmare. Simon finds himself living in such a nightmare. Has he gone mad or is he merely suffering from temporary delusions? Above all, why should he want to kill a perfect stranger?
Episode 5: Monolith
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- Oct 6, 1969
Sir Charles Munday is the richest man in the world. Might there be a Centauran plan to murder him?
Episode 6: Out of Mind
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Mary, visiting a village where she stayed as a child, finds that the woman who used to look after her, Hannah Webley, is now regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers and Mary herself is soon caught up in the ensuing witch hunt. (The episode was cancelled the night it was due to air—13 October 1969—and replaced by a documentary on Ronnie and Reggie Kray, who, earlier that day, had been refused leave to appeal against their prison sentences. For unknown reasons, it was never rescheduled, remained unscreened, and was subsequently wiped from the BBC Archives.)
Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome
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- Oct 20, 1969
143 people in one small seaside town commit suicide by drowning. Or were they under some strange and alien influence? Simon decides they probably were...
Episode 8: Backlash
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- Oct 27, 1969
In a period of student riots, strong calls for a return to 'law and order' are made by General Falcon, a blood-and-guts commander of the Korean war. Suddenly, he starts to emerge as an important political figure capable of swaying public and government opinion during an international crisis. Such a man, Simon decides, is dangerous.
Episode 9: All That Glitters
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- Nov 3, 1969
When adults start acting childishly, it is no surprise to Simon. By his standards, most people are childish. However, when they start acting childish even by their own standards—when a grown man plays hopscotch and another falls off a rocking horse—something must be wrong. But can there be any connection between childish behaviour and the Centauran plan to take over the Earth? It seems unlikely, but Centauran plans frequently do. Until they start to work...
Episode 10: The Mutant
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- Nov 10, 1969
A deadly new germ gets loose at a biological warfare laboratory. Can an antidote be found before the germ spreads into a killer plague?

Episodes

Episode 1: King's Gambit

Episode 2: Joker One

Episode 3: On Ice

Episode 4: Nocturne

Episode 5: Monolith

Episode 6: Out of Mind

Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

Episode 8: Backlash

Episode 9: All That Glitters

Episode 10: The Mutant

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Episodes

Episode 1: King's Gambit

Episode 2: Joker One

Episode 3: On Ice

Episode 4: Nocturne

Episode 5: Monolith

Episode 6: Out of Mind

Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

Episode 8: Backlash

Episode 9: All That Glitters

Episode 10: The Mutant

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Episodes

E1 Episode 1: King's Gambit

E2 Episode 2: Joker One

E3 Episode 3: On Ice

E4 Episode 4: Nocturne

E5 Episode 5: Monolith

E6 Episode 6: Out of Mind

E7 Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

E8 Episode 8: Backlash

E9 Episode 9: All That Glitters

E10 Episode 10: The Mutant

Overview

Fun facts

Details

Network

Production

Cast

More like this

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: King's Gambit

E2 Episode 2: Joker One

E3 Episode 3: On Ice

E4 Episode 4: Nocturne

E5 Episode 5: Monolith

E6 Episode 6: Out of Mind

E7 Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

E8 Episode 8: Backlash

E9 Episode 9: All That Glitters

E10 Episode 10: The Mutant

Fun facts

Episode 1: King's Gambit

Episode 2: Joker One

Episode 3: On Ice

Episode 4: Nocturne

Episode 5: Monolith

Episode 6: Out of Mind

Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

Episode 8: Backlash

Episode 9: All That Glitters

Episode 10: The Mutant

Episode 1: King's Gambit

Episode 2: Joker One

Episode 3: On Ice

Episode 4: Nocturne

Episode 5: Monolith

Episode 6: Out of Mind

Episode 7: The Lemming Syndrome

Episode 8: Backlash

Episode 9: All That Glitters

Episode 10: The Mutant