in similar vein, the 1977 series 1990, set in a bureaucratic dystopia (creator Wilfred Greatorex called it "Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six")
The blurb at YouTube: A nightmare vision of the (then) future UK set in 1990. The permanent civil service in Britain has taken political control and the population finds itself living under a totalitarian regime. The Public Control Department (PCD) of the Home Office monitors all activity, and ruthlessly suppresses any act of opposition. The story focuses on two key players -- the supercilious Permanent Secretary at the PCD, Herbert Skardon (Robert Lang) and a journalist on Britain's last independent newspaper, Jim Kyle (Edward Woodward).
(More on it here)
Laughably off-base, did they really not see Thatcher coming?
Still, great synth-twizzled library-music-esque theme tune, and Edward Woodward is always good value
Episode one
Episode two
Episode three
Episode four
Episode five
Episode six (titled 'whatever happened to Cardinal Wolsey?' !!!!)
Episode seven
Episode eight
Blimey, there appears to have been a second series.
Wilfred Greatorex - what an awesome name!
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