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Out of the Unknown: Beach Head

on BBC Two England

by Clifford Simak
Dramatised by Robert Muller

Commandant Decker is a veteran of some thirty-six faultless space missions. They were faultless because the ultra-technology which man has evolved overcomes all eventualities, however 'unknown.' On his thirty-seventh mission, to Planet 0243/B, Decker is tired - tired of his life, tired of what man has become - tired to the point of rebellion. And it is not until this new planet subtly defeats the hitherto infallible machines that Decker defines both the cause and cure for his dissatisfaction
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Clifford Simak
Dramatised by:
Robert Muller
Title music:
Norman Kay
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Tom Decker:
Edward Bishop
Cassandra Jackson:
Helen Downing
Bertrand Le Maitre:
John Gabriel
Oliver MacDonald:
James Copeland
A.G. Tiosawa:
Robert Lee
N.G. Waldron:
Vernon Dobtcheff
Ensign Warner-Carr:
Barry Warren

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