Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

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2010 / 90min.

Rating4

Genres

History

Documentary

Synopsis

From Raymond Baxter live on Tomorrow's World testing a new-fangled bulletproof vest on a nervous inventor to Doctor Who's contemporary spin on the War on Terror, British television and the Great British public have been fascinated with the brave new world offered up by science on TV. Narrated by Robert Webb, this documentary takes a fantastic, incisive and funny voyage through the rich heritage of science TV in the UK, from real science programmes (including The Sky At Night, Horizon, Tomorrow's World, The Ascent of Man) to science-fiction (such as The Quatermass Experiment, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), to find out what it tells us about Britain over the last 60 years.

Directors

Sean Grundy

Actors

David Attenborough

Tony Robinson

Johnny Ball

Robert Webb

Patrick Moore

Iain Stewart

Robert Winston

Colin Blakemore

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