Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
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.
Cast
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Robert Webb Self - Narrator (voice) -
David Attenborough Self -
Robert Winston Self -
Colin Blakemore Self -
Tony Robinson Self -
Johnny Ball Self -
Iain Stewart Self -
Patrick Moore Self
Make it a double feature
3h 32m together
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
Frost/Nixon
A close match in mood and era.
