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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    R3

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    1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK)
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    This soap opera from the BBC was set at Research Centre Three (hence “R3”) – a division of the Ministry of Research – and featured the professional and private lives of the scientists and boffins who worked there for the government.

    The first season dealt primarily with the world’s problems – drugs, bombs etc – in a more serious manner. Like Doomwatch a decade later, it made a virtue of dramatising contemporary scientific issues.

    Sir Michael Gerrard (played by former Professor Quatermass, John Robinson) was director of the unit, supported by his number two, Dr George Fratton (Moultrie Kelsall).

    Beneath him worked a team of dedicated scientists, struggling to cope with the morality of certain experiments and the social consequences of new discoveries.

    The second of the two seasons was more adventurous – and more fun – than the first, featuring spies and secret agents, with the action moved to R3’s elite unit, Consultancy Service, where the boss was Philip Boult (Michael Hawkins) and his deputy was Dr Richard Franklin (played by a young Oliver Reed).

    Future Alien director Ridley Scott was among the series’ set designers.

    Sir Michael Gerrard
    John Robinson
    Dr Richard Franklin
    Oliver Reed
    Miss Brooks
    Brenda Saunders
    Dr George Fratton
    Moultrie Kelsall
    Dr May Howard
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Philip Boult
    Michael Hawkins
    Tom Collis
    Derek Benfield
    Stubbs
    Maxwell Foster
    Betty Mason
    Janet Kelly
    Dr Jack Morton
    Simon Lack
    Mr Pomeroy
    Edwin Richfield
    Dr Peter Travers
    Richard Wordsworth

    Episodes

    A State of Anxiety | Against the Stream | On the Spike | The Patriot | Thunderbolt | The Short Cut | The Forum | Patterns of Behaviour | The Fratton Experiment | The Critical Moment | The Angel | The Astronaut | A Whole Lot of Reasons || The Big Balloon | Unwelcome Visitor | One Free Man | Experiment in Death | Black Warning | In Your Own Back Yard | Witch Doctor | And No Birds Sing | A Sudden Change of Programme | It’s Better to Know | A Source of Contamination | Good Clean Fun | Personal Appearance

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