CinemaOSMovie · 2010 · 1h 30m

Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

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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.

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
EN
Released
December 15, 2010

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Robert Webb

Robert Webb

Self - Narrator (voice)

David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Self

Robert Winston

Robert Winston

Self

Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore

Self

Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson

Self

Johnny Ball

Johnny Ball

Self

Iain Stewart

Iain Stewart

Self

Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore

Self

Creative team
Produced by
Sean Grundy

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