Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

90 mins | Documentary, History | Dec. 15, 2010

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.

Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

90 mins | Documentary, History | Dec. 15, 2010

Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
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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Original title Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
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Cast

Robert Webb

as Himself - Narrator

David Attenborough

as Himself

Robert Winston

as Himself

Colin Blakemore

as Himself

Tony Robinson

as Himself

Patrick Moore

as Himself

Johnny Ball

as Himself

Iain Stewart

as Himself