Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown

1965 · 4 seasons · 49 eps · ★ 7.1 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

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Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Created by Irene Shubik

Network: BBC Two

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Cast

Geoffrey Palmer Jack Mervyn
Charles Tingwell Capt. Dantor
Peter Copley Hull
Michael Danvers-Walker Brett
David Langton Thaddeus Araman
Keith Buckley X.127
James Maxwell Jonas Foster
Ronald Lewis Dr. Max Harrow
Peter Madden Spelman
Milo O'Shea Henry Wilkes
Robert James Dr. Kersh
David Collings R. Daneel Olivaw

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