'The Human Time Bomb' by Louis Marks

At the Institute of Town Planning, property millionaire Sir Billy Langly foresees that by the year 2000 there will be eighty million people living in the country, which will result in a demand for new kinds of housing. Tower blocks are the way forward, but this ‘battery’ idea of living can result in a particularly depressing urban neurosis - something that Fay is forced to experience first hand…


John Paul (Doctor Spencer Quist), Simon Oates (Doctor John Ridge), Jean Trend (Doctor Fay Chantry), Joan Phillips (Mrs. Hetherington), Talfryn Thomas (Hethrington), Laurence Bulaitis (Laurence), John Quayle (Cavendish), Ursula Hirst (Mrs. Frank), Philip Bond (Inspector Drew], Gloria Connell (Policewoman), Ray Armstrong (Donovan), Patrick Godfrey (Grant), Roddy McMillan (Scobie), Kevin Brennan (Sir Billy Langley), Doreen Andrew (Mrs. Scobie), Tom Collister (Man in Lift)

Directed by Joan-Kemp Welch
Produced by Terence Dudley

TX:
22nd February, 1971 @ 9.20pm - 10.10pm

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Spencer Quist, Doctor John Ridge, and Fay Chantry

*Working title: 'The Dove of Peace'

*This episode exists as a black and white film telerecording, and colour NTSC videotape