Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Robert Webb

Himself - Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

David Attenborough

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 65%

Robert Winston

Himself

Age : 84 | Popularity : 36%

Colin Blakemore

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Tony Robinson

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Johnny Ball

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 21%

Iain Stewart

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Patrick Moore

Himself

Age : 89 | Popularity : 15%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Sean Grundy
Department	Role	Name

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