Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 15, 2010

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Cast

Johnny Ball,Colin Blakemore,Robert Winston,Iain Stewart,Patrick Moore,Tony Robinson,Robert Webb,David Attenborough

Producer

Sean Grundy

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt1797441