''Undermind'' is a

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produced by ABC Weekend Television in 1965. It ran for eleven episodes of sixty minutes each. It starred

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and

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. The series was devised by ''Shoestring'' and ''Bergerac'' creator

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, who also went on to write for ''Doctor Who''. Several other writers known for their work on ''Who'' also contributed scripts: David Whitaker,

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and Robert Holmes.

Plot

Personnel Officer Drew Heriot returns to the United Kingdom after working in Australia to discover his brother, Police Detective Frank Heriot, behaving oddly, to the distress of his sister-in-law Anne. Investigating together, they discover that a disembodied alien force is using high frequency signals to

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people—including Drew's brother—into committing subversive acts as a prelude to a full-scale invasion. Together, Drew and Anne battle to stop the acts of sabotage while trying to alert Britain to the danger...

Recurring cast

as Drew Heriot (11 episodes (full series)) *

as Ann Heriot (11 episodes (full series)) *

as Professor Val Randolph (4 episodes: "Flowers of Havoc", "The New Dimension", "Death in England" and "Too Many Enemies") * John Barron as Sir Godfrey Tillinger (2 episodes: "Waves of Sound" and "End Signal") * David Phetheam as Caper (2 episodes: "Waves of Sound" and "End Signal")

Broadcasts

The series was not networked. ABC debuted the series on its Midlands and North franchise on Saturday May 8, 1965. The eleven episodes ran through to July 17. One week later ATV London began screenings. Strangely, ATV played episode 9 out of order, as the 4th episode in its sequence and only showed 10 episodes in all , declining to show "Song of Death".

Episodes

Release

The series survived

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and was released on

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by Network on 23 July 2012.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=tt0172062, title=Undermind 1960s British science fiction television series 1965 British television series debuts 1965 British television series endings Black-and-white British television shows British science fiction television shows English-language television shows ITV television dramas Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV