1990

2 Seasons 1977 - 1978 NR 55m 7.6

In a dystopian future, Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.

Great Britain, 1990. The population is now governed by an increasingly corrupt bureaucracy headed by the Home Secretary and backed by the tyrannical Public Control Department (PCD), who have done away with the rights of the individual and maintain control through ID cards, rationing, censorship and electronic/audio/physical surveillance. Free speech is forbidden. The rule of law no longer protects the weak and defenseless. Emigration is impossible. But escape is not, thanks to rebels like Jim Kyle (Edward Woodward), a journalist and secret dissident who battles the forces of the Establishment, but constantly faces imprisonment or death (or worse) at the hands of the PCD and its ruthless controller Herbert Skardon.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Creed of Slaves

1. Creed of Slaves

Aired: Sep 18, 1977

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the arg...

Episode 3 Health Farm

3. Health Farm

Aired: Sep 26, 1977

"...no barbed-wire, no strait-jackets, no padded cells. After all, this is 19...

Episode 4 Decoy

4. Decoy

Aired: Oct 3, 1977

"This is an island prison. Getting us all together is one thing. Getting us o...

Episode 5 Voice from the Past

5. Voice from the Past

Aired: Oct 10, 1977

"The age of the common man seems to be degenerating into the age of the commo...

Episode 7 Witness

7. Witness

Aired: Oct 24, 1977

Dr. Alan Vickers, whom Kyle and Brett helped escape, has been campaigning thr...

Episode 8 Non-Citizen

8. Non-Citizen

Aired: Oct 31, 1977

After the Kyle Trial fiasco, Skardon takes his revenge by turning Kyle into a...

Info about 1990

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi