Basic Info

First Air: September 18, 1977

Rating: ⭐ 6.0/10 (3 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Last Episode

Name: What Pleases the Prince

Season: 2, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1978-04-10

Runtime: 55 min

"We always said there'd be Peace Crimes Trials one day ... We're winning now. There'll have to be a purge of the PCD soon." The dissident assault on the Public Control Department has been successful, but the public suicide of a cell member has resulted in world condemnation of Britain's policies and the PCD being plunged into bitter in-fighting.

1990

1977 2 seasons 16 episodes ⭐ 6.0/10 3 votes

Overview

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.