Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

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Robert Webb
Robert Webb

Self - Narrator (voice)

David Attenborough
David Attenborough

Self

Robert Winston
Robert Winston

Self

Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore

Self

Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson

Self

Johnny Ball
Johnny Ball

Self

Iain Stewart
Iain Stewart

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Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore

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    Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV

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    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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    2010-12-15

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    English

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