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- The ultimate weapon, which was meant to be safe for mankind, produces global side effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project, and his car, are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland.
- In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
- Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
- There are other worlds...but they are in this one.
- A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
- Series looking at changes in British society, employing archive footage from the BBC and other sources.
- Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
- How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.
- The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction. The story of one of the liveliest and most stimulating genres in popular culture will be told through its impact on cinema, television and literature. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens. It will be made with the help of the genre's greatest pioneers: the filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists whose obsession and imagination has taken them into the unknown. Having explored the future, the past, parallel universes and galaxies far, far away, they are now ready to report back on their experiences.
- About the epic film "Blade Runner," giving insights into its history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers, and nearly all of the cast. There are also interviews with production staff, giving details into the creative process and turmoil during pre-production.
- Friends, family and colleagues of Philip K. Dick remember the life and work of the author of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'
- Wide-ranging arts program.
- A documentary which goes on an imaginative tour from the Colorado grave where Dick is buried to the suburbs of California where he lived and worked. Talks to his ex-wives, friends and biographers.
- What if our creations turn against us? The idea of creating life has fascinated society since the earliest days of science fiction. From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Cylons of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and the world of The Matrix, this is a journey that asks - what does it mean to be human?
- A summary of the differences and similarities between Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep and Blade Runner.
- The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.
- Documentary series looking at British science fiction writers and their influence.
- A look at H.G. Wells and specifically his novel, _The War of the Worlds_ and its influence on the future, and its initial intents. Included is a discussion of Wells's relationships with women, his participation in society and his part in the development of the United Nations, and a comparison of the novel to the two most famous adaptations, including new interview footage with Howard Koch, the writer of the radio script. Also addressed is some of Wells's more controversial writings, which would be utilized in the 20th Century as tracts advocating genocide, as well as quotes from the smae material to show that interpretation as wrong.
- Long-running BBC documentary series, often focussing on issues of a religious nature.
- Stuck in a space station, an escapee of Earth explores the issues examined in science fiction/fantasy literature and comics.
- Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
- Presenter Ludovic Kennedy and three guests discuss the week's television, while there are also interviews with those responsible for making it. The series was later revived with Jeremy Paxman as the host.