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Anyone seen/remember this?

1970's BBC sci-fi drama? written by Terry nation (Dr Who)

i have seen first series on DVD.. must get around to seeing the rest!!!

I mentioned it in passing in the Triffids thread.

Quite harrowing in places. Didn't see it all, but the capital punishment episode has stuck with me.

I remember viewing it - but I can't recall specific episodes.

The episode I'll always remember from the child is the episode that touched on Rabies.

I wouldn't go near a dog for weeks afterwards.


Blue

The first series was good, but it lost its way a bit after Terry Nation jumped ship before Series 2 was made.

Nation had wanted more of an action-adventure show, but it it turned into what one hack once described as a "a bit like a serious version of The Good Life", with many Series 2 episodes featuring lots of tedious filler material about things like crop-growing and basket-weaving etc.

Also - watching it now 30 years later - it becomes painfully clear that Lucy Fleming (who played the central character Jenny) was a fucking awful actress. I mean really terrible, as if she's reading her lines off an auto-cue - and with a "frightfully, frightfully" posh accent to boot.

Still there are some stand-out episodes, such as the rabies episode ("Mad Dog" from Series 3) that newblue mentions above, the double-ep story which sees some of the cast having to go to plague-ravaged London, and the one in which two former convicts terrorise the community.

You can see quite few clips on You Tube.

I think 28 Days owes quite a lot to to it.

And in turn they both owe something to Peter Watkins' 'The War Game' I think.