Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
2010•1h 30m•4.0•Released
HistoryDocumentary
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.
Languages
English
Cast
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
Production
Producer
Sean Grundy
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