A for Andromeda
Premiered: Oct 03, 1961 | 1 seasons | 7 episodes
Popularity: 0.9
| Creator: | Fred Hoyle |
|---|
| Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature" ...? |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Esmond Knight | Professor Ernest Reinhart | 7 |
| Peter Halliday | John Fleming | 7 |
| Geoffrey Lewis | Doctor Geers | 5 |
| Donald Stewart | General Vandenberg | 5 |
| Mary Morris | Professor Madeleine Dawnay | 4 |
| John Hollis | Kaufman | 4 |
| Julie Christie | Christine Jones | 3 |
| Julie Christie | Andromeda | 3 |
| Frank Windsor | Dennis Bridger | 3 |
| John Nettleton | Harries | 2 |
| Jack May | Major Quadring | 2 |
| Anthony Valentine | Corporal | 2 |
| Jack Gwillim | Air Commodore Watling | 1 |
| Kenneth Colley | Dead Body (uncredited) | 1 |
| Barry Jackson | Sentry | 1 |
| Barry Jackson | 1st Sentry | 1 |
| John Barrett | Oldroyd | 1 |
| John Scott Martin | Lab Assistant | 1 |