TV Show Details
Air Date:October 3rd, 1961
Last Air Date:November 14th, 1961
Network:BBC Television
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
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A for Andromeda (1961)
TV ShowBBC Television
Miniseries
Audience Score
WriterFred Hoyle
Plot
In the not-too-distant future of 1970, a mysterious signal from space arrives with instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once completed, the evice's motives provokes discourse between scientists John Fleming and Madeleine Dawnay as further instructions are to create a living organism, which Dawnay develops. The entity compels lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and, upon manifestation, adopts her form, now known as Andromeda.
