TV Show Details
Air Date:April 22nd, 1982
Last Air Date:September 27th, 1984
Network:BBC One
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Bird of Prey (1982-1984)
TV ShowBBC One
Scripted
Audience Score
DirectorsDon LeaverMichael Rolfe
WriterRon Hutchinson
Plot
Bird of Prey is a British techno-thriller television serial written by Ron Hutchinson and produced by Michael Wearing and Bernard Krichefski for the BBC in 1982.
From its video game-inspired opening titles to its pervasive electronic music track, Bird of Prey went to great lengths to demonstrate its credentials as 'a thriller for the electronic age'. These elements, together with a clever and complex plot that combines a breathless fascination with the still-young field of computing with pan-European fraud, international terrorism, rogue intelligence operatives and organised crime, link it firmly to the early 1980s, expressing that era's growing anxieties about the burgeoning 'Eurocracy'.
