Backdrop

1990

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

1977 |2 Seasons  | 55m |  Drama

Cast

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Edward Woodward

Jim Kyle

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Robert Lang

Herbert Skardon

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Lisa Harrow

Lynn Blake

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Yvonne Mitchell

Kate Smith

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Tony Doyle

Dave Brett

Seasons List

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Series 1

1977

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Series 2

1978

More Details

Creator

Wilfred Greatorex

Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC Two