Another Little Drink (11 Feb. 1967)

Director:

Laurence Bourne

Writer:

Ian Stuart Black

Stars:

Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer, Jack May

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Gerald Harper	...	Adam Adamant
Juliet Harmer	...	Georgina Jones
Jack May	...	William E. Simms
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fredric Abbott	...	Yorke
Sally Bazely	...	Carol Shelley
Peter Bowles	...	D.K. Davies
Meredith Edwards	...	Dr. Loton
Prudence Fitzgerald	...	Dancer
Michael Golden	...	Guard
Stephanie Heesom	...	Dancer
Robert McBain	...	Addison
Norman Wynne	...	Supervisor

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

lost film

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Genres:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

11 February 1967 (UK)

Company Credits

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is currently no known copy of this edition in existence.

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Soundtracks

" (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones

User Reviews

Adam's rave-up!

'Coronation Street' producer Phil Collinson has come under fire from angry fans over the tram crash storyline in which four funerals were promised by the trailers, yet only two major characters died ( the others being extras ). I have a lot of respect for him - he produced the successful 2005 revival of 'Dr.Who' - but here he overstepped the mark. A broken promise is a broken promise ( can he considered joining the Con-Dems? )

Back on topic now. This next review is going to be tricky as I haven't seen the episode in question ( and can't now as it was wiped years ago by the B.B.C. ) but I have read the script and seen photographs, so - for better or for worse - here are my thoughts on the subject: the story opens at a party at which teenagers are dancing to 'I Feel Free' by Cream and imbibing - free of charge - vast quantities of a new type of fizzy lemonade known as 'Rave'. It has been organised by its makers

• D.K. Soft Drinks. Suddenly, the kids turn nasty, smashing the place

up. Among them is Georgina Jones ( Juliet Harmer ). The police arrests the rampaging youths. Adam bails her out of jail and asks what happened. She does not remember. When she produces a bottle of Rave from her handbag, he has it analysed - the smell is enough to turn Simms ( Jack May ) unnaturally aggressive. Adam deduces that the drink has been exposed to a new type of gas. He pays a call on the head of D.K. Soft Drinks - Davis ( Peter Bowles ). The company is merely a front, he is a ruthless arms dealer planning on striking a deal with a foreign power wishing to use the drink to take over a neighbouring country...

Ian Stuart Black, the writer of this episode, worked on numerous adventure shows of the period, including 'The Champions', 'The Saint', and 'Dr.Who'. He was a bit ahead of his time with this story - alco-pops were thirty or so years in the future. Peter Bowles played villains in four 'Avengers' stories - 'Second Sight', 'Dial A Deadly Number', 'Escape In Time' and 'Get-A-Way!' so it is not surprising to see him in 'A.A.L'. His character is obsessed with war and when he is not planning on starting real ones is to be found playing with toy soldiers in his office. The climax has Adam and Georgina in a room with the anarchy gas gushing through a nozzle in the wall. Adam twists the nozzle round so that it pumps the stuff back into Davis' office, turning him and Dr.Loton ( Meredith Edwards ) - the gas' inventor - violent.