1990

Great Britain, 1990. The population is now governed by an increasingly corrupt bureaucracy headed by the Home Secretary and backed by the tyrannical Public Control Department (PCD), who have done away with the rights of the individual and maintain control through ID cards, rationing, censorship and electronic/audio/physical surveillance. Free speech is forbidden. The rule of law no longer protects the weak and defenseless. Emigration is impossible. But escape is not, thanks to rebels like Jim Kyle ('Edward Woodward' (qv)), a journalist and secret dissident who battles the forces of the Establishment, but constantly faces imprisonment or death (or worse) at the hands of the PCD and its ruthless controller Herbert Skardon.

Cast

• Edward Woodward
• Robert Lang
• Tony Doyle
• Paul Hardwick
• Lisa Harrow
• Barbara Kellerman
• Yvonne Mitchell
• David McKail
• George Murcell
• Clifton Jones
• John Savident
• Michael Napier Brown
• Clive Swift
• Harry Fielder
• Stanley Lebor
• Victor Maddern
• Sandra Payne
• Mitzi Rogers
• Adam Bareham
• Michael Cassidy
• Donald Burton
• Honor Shepherd
• Norman Rutherford

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Creed of Slaves
  This episode was transmitted 8:10pm to 9:05pm on BBC 2. The series was transmitted under the banner ...
• Episode 2: When Did You Last See Your Father?
  "We don't make laws, we only carry them out". Despite the Home Secretary's abolition of all exit vis...
• Episode 3: Health Farm
  "...no barbed-wire, no strait-jackets, no padded cells. After all, this is 1990". When the Public Co...
• Episode 4: Decoy
  "This is an island prison. Getting us all together is one thing. Getting us out is something else". ...
• Episode 5: Voice from the Past
  "The age of the common man seems to be degenerating into the age of the common denominator". When th...
• Episode 6: Whatever Happened to Cardinal Wolsey?
  The Ombudsman's Court supposedly exists to hear and review appeals by citizens and consists of a tri...
• Episode 7: Witness
  Dr. Alan Vickers, whom Kyle and Breet helped escape, has been campaigning throughout the United Stat...
• Episode 8: Non-Citizen
  After the Kyle Trial fiasco, Skardon takes his revenge by turning Kyle into a Non-Citizen: stripping...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Pentagons
  There's good news and bad news in Britain. The good news: Home Secretary Dan Mellor has been replace...
• Episode 2: The Market Price
  "This mate of yours is a shark. With his jaws into whole cargoes. Petrol. Fags. Booze. Grub. It's up...
• Episode 3: Trapline
  "Who are we out to nail? Careguard, the Home Secretary or Skardon and the PCD?" Jim Kyle is in troub...
• Episode 4: Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope
  "Authorised Systematic Harassment has enormous potential. The slow and noiseless steamroller of the ...
• Episode 5: Hire and Fire
  "If Kyle can uncover those extortionists where an expert PCD man failed, he is obviously implicated ...
• Episode 6: You'll Never Walk Alone
  UK:27 March 1978...
• Episode 7: Young Sparks
  "Kyle'll be back to normal in about an hour. Until then he'll probably show an amusing tendency to t...
• Episode 8: What Pleases the Prince
  "We always said there'd be Peace Crimes Trials one day ... We're winning now. There'll have to be a ...