 Main title caption for A For Andromeda A for Andromeda is the title of a 1961 British television drama series and novel by astronomer Fred Hoyle and author and TV producer John Elliot, and a 2006 television remake. Image File history File links Aforandromeda. ...
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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
Sir Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle (June 24, 1915 in Bingley, Yorkshire – August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by...
Background Sir John Elliot (1898-1988) Public Relation assistant, Southern Railway (UK) 1925- 30. ...
1961 Version
In seven 45-minute episodes, it tells of a radio signal received from the direction of the constellation of Andromeda. This signal is found to contain encoded specifications for a supercomputer, as well as a program for it to run and data for it to process. The computer is built and turned on. It proceeds to ask a series of questions, which gradually teach it about human society and biochemistry. Various Governments and big businesses want to use the machine for their own purposes, but it has its own agenda for the world...
Julie Christie, in her first role, played both a young lab assistant named Christine and an artificially grown human, named Andromeda or André by the rest of the team, which the machine uses Christine's DNA to create (killing Christine in the process). Her co-star Peter Halliday played Dr. John Fleming, the scientist responsible for constructing the supercomputer. Also appearing were Mary Morris as biologist Professor Madeleine Dawnay, Patricia Kneale as security officer Judy Adamson, Noel Johnson as civil servant J.M. Osborne, John Hollis as a shadowy corporate operative named Kaufman employed by "Intel - the international cartel people", and Esmond Knight as radio astronomer Ernst Reinhart. Oskar Werner and Julie Christie in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Julie Frances Christie (born April 14, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning English actress for her role in the 1965 film, Darling. ...
Bold text Mary Morris (born December 13, 1915 in Fiji; died October 14, 1988 in Switzerland) was a British actress. ...
John Hollis (born 1931; died October 18, 2005) was a British actor. ...
Esmond Knight was an accomplished British character actor (4 May 1906 - 22 February 1987), with a career spanning over half a century. ...
The series was not retained by the BBC, and most of it no longer exists. However, a film print of episode six was returned to the BBC in 2006, and the concluding act of the final episode seven has also survived, as well as some clips from episodes one and two and a very short excerpt from earlier in episode seven. All of the existing material, linked by a complete set of captioned telesnaps for the serial, was released alongside the sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough as part of The Andromeda Anthology DVD boxed set in 2006. The set also included audio commentaries on most of the surviving material, a documentary and an excerpt from a 1961 edition of Points of View discussing the serial (also the source of the surviving clip from episode one). The complete scripts for the episodes were also provided as PDF files for DVD-ROM access. Tele-snaps were off-screen photographs of BBC television broadcasts taken by John Cura before the advent of video recording. ...
The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV series A for Andromeda again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. ...
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc, often incorrectly explained as Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
A major selling point of DVD video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. ...
Points of View is a long-running television show shown in the United Kingdom on BBC One, featuring the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and purportedly witty observations on the television of recent weeks. ...
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DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. ...
A year after the first series, a sequel Andromeda Breakthrough, was aired. Halliday, Morris, Johnson and Hollis each reprised their roles from the first series, but Christie was replaced by Susan Hampshire. The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV series A for Andromeda again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. ...
Susan Hampshire OBE (born on May 12, 1937 in London, England) is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles. ...
Book A novelisation of the series was published by Souvenir Press in 1962, and a Corgi paperback was issued in 1963. The book stays closely to the original TV plot. It was written by Hoyle in conjunction with TV script writer John Elliot. - A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot , pub Harpercollins (June 1962) ISBN 9997403673
Italian Version A version of the series was made for Italian television in 1971, titled A come Andromeda. It follows the plot of the original series very closely. Unlike the original, it still exists and has been released on VHS. The cast includes Paola Pitagora and Luigi Vannucchi. (Italian) [1] 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
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2006 Version A new version of the serial, adapted by Richard Fell based on the original scripts, premiered on the digital television channel BBC Four in the UK on March 27, 2006. The adaptation stars Kelly Reilly as Andromeda, and the cast includes Tom Hardy, David Haig, Charlie Cox and Jane Asher. Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals in analog (traditional) TV. It uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard...
BBC Four Ident BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began on March 2, 2002 – its first evenings programmes being simulcast on BBC Two. ...
March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kelly Reilly Kelly Reilly (born 1977) is a British actress who, in 2004, became the youngest ever best actress nominee at the Olivier Awards. ...
Edward Thomas Hardy (born September 15, 1977 in London, England), better known simply as Tom Hardy, is a British actor who is best known for his role of the Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). ...
David Haig is a British character actor. ...
Charlie Cox is an English actor. ...
Jane Asher (born April 5, 1946) is a British film and television actress and the author of several full-length novels. ...
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