Undermind | |
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Directed by | Bill Bain Laurence Bourne Peter Dews Patrick Dromgoole Raymond Menmuir Peter Potter |
Starring |
Rosemary Nicols Jeremy Wilkin Denis Quilley |
Theme music composer | Paul Lewis |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multiple-camera setup |
Running time | 60 minutes 50 minutes (excluding advertisements) |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Picture format |
405-line Black & White (4:3 SDTV) |
Audio format | Mono |
Original release | 1965 |
Undermind is a science fiction television drama produced by ABC Weekend Television in 1965. It ran for eleven episodes of sixty minutes each. It starred Rosemary Nicols, Jeremy Wilkin and Denis Quilley.
The series was devised by Shoestring and Bergerac creator Robert Banks Stewart, who also went on to write for Doctor Who. Several other writers known for their work on Who also contributed scripts: David Whitaker, Bill Strutton and Robert Holmes.
Personnel Officer Drew Heriot returns to the United Kingdom after working in Australia to discover his brother, Police Detective Frank Heriot, behaving oddly, to the distress of his sister-in-law Anne. Investigating together, they discover that a disembodied alien force is using high frequency signals to brainwash people - including Drew's brother - into committing subversive acts as a prelude to a full-scale invasion. Together, Drew and Anne battle to stop the acts of sabotage while trying to alert Britain to the danger...
Full Series
Full Series
Flowers of Havoc, The New Dimension, Death in England and Too Many Enemies
Waves of Sound and End Signal
Waves of Sound and End Signal
The series was released on DVD by Network DVD on 23 July 2012.