PrimeWire

Perfect lockdown material for the UK! It may have been small in budget but it was huge in the science fiction imagination of the 1970s. As the creators have stated in past interviews, because it was made for ‘children’, the ITV censors and controllers pretty much left them alone, free to add their own left-leaning radical and subversive ideas.
Of course as a youngster watching it at the time, I was only dimly aware of its subversive undercurrent but as an adult who has re-watched it over the years, I marvel at the imagination, creativity and radical approach to children’s TV by the creators.