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1990
(1977Ø1978 BBC TV Drama)
- Series 1+2 Collection
"Nineteen
Eighty-Four... + SIX!" |
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* DVD Edition! * |
(2x Disc Set Collection - May be sent
separately)
Region 2 PAL Version - Brand New, Factory Sealed DVD Set
US/Canadian buyers please see note below!
Standard delivery time is approx.
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These are original and factory sealed.
They are Region 2 PAL and play beautifully on modern
Multi-region DVD players.
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Description:
The series is set
in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home
Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive
bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.
Dubbed "Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six" by its creator, Wilfred
Greatorex, 1990 stars Edward Woodward as journalist Jim Kyle, Robert
Lang as the powerful PCD Controller Herbert Skardon, Barbara
Kellerman as Deputy PCD Controller Delly Lomas, John Savident,
Yvonne Mitchell (in her last role), Lisa Harrow, Tony Doyle, Michael
Napier Brown and Clive Swift.
Two series, of eight episodes each, were produced and broadcast on
BBC2 in 1977 and 1978. The series has never been repeated nor
received any official DVD or video release. Two novelization based
on the scripts were released in paperback by the publisher Sphere;
Wilfred Greatorex's 1990, and Wilfred Greatorex's 1990 Book Two.
Jim Kyle (Edward Woodward) is a journalist on the last independent
newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and fights the PCD
covertly. The officials of the PCD (headed by Controller Herbert
Skardon (Robert Lang), in turn, try to find proof of Kyle's
subversive activities. Skardon's two Deputy Controllers were Delly
Lomas (Barbara Kellerman), who had an ambiguous personal
relationship with Kyle, and Henry Tasker (Clifton Jones); however,
in the second series, these two Deputies were replaced by Lynn Blake
(Lisa Harrow), a former love interest of Kyle's (in the novelization
of episodes from Series Two, the explanation given for the
replacement of Delly Lomas was that she had been "relegated to
obscurity in the Dundee Branch of the PCD"; no explanation was given
for Henry Tasker's departure). Kyle was aided and abetted by
Import/Export Agent Dave Brett (Tony Doyle) and provided from time
to time with Top Secret government information by the mysterious
"Faceless" (Paul Hardwick), who was a top-level government official
tapped into the PCD. The whole government machine was headed by Home
Secretary Dan Mellor (John Savident), replaced in office in Series
Two (supposedly through Kyle's efforts) by Kate Smith (Yvonne
Mitchell).
BBC Drama starring Edward Woodward set in a nightmarish 1984 style
future, where government bureaucracy has run riot.
Season 1:
1 "Creed of Slaves"
2 "When Did You Last See Your Father?"
3 "Health Farm"
4 "Decoy" |
5 "Voice From The Past"
6 "Whatever Happened to Cardinal Wolsey?"
7 "Witness"
8 "Non-Citizen" |
Season 2:
9 "Pentagons"
10 "The Market Price"
11 "Trapline"
12 "Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope" |
13 "Hire And Fire"
14 "You'll Never Walk Alone"
15 "Young Sparks"
16 "What Pleases the Prince..." |
Cast List:
Edward Woodward
Robert Lang
Tony Doyle
Barbara Kellerman (series 1)
Clifton Jones (Series 1)
Lisa Harrow
(series 2)
Clive Swift (series 2) |
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Encoding: Region
2 PAL
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Created by: Wilfred Greatorex
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Written by: Wilfred Greatorex, Edmund
Ward, Jim Hawkins, Arden Winch
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Directed by: Alan Gibson, David Sullivan
Proudfoot, Kenneth Ives, Rob Bird, Peter Sasdy, Roger Tucker
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Format: PAL
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Number of discs: 2+2=4
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Classification: 15
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Studio: Simply Media
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DVD Release Date: 20 Mar. 2017
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