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Orbit One Zero Parts One to Six
May. 3rd, 2013 10:56 pmOrbit One Zero (Pter Elliott Hayes)
This is a six part BBC serial from 1961. I don't know much about its author except he was a writer for Francis Storm Investigates in 1960. In this, two students leap at the chance to perform field work in lieu of writing theses; this draws the pair into the investigation of two mysteries: strange signals from beyond Pluto (but nowhere near the stars) and a strange humming, energy-draining cylinder found buried under the sand of the island they are on. This mystery builds rather at a leisurely pace but the solution leaves with the problem of working out which of two incompatible stories, one of which promises vague good things and the other the brutal exploitation of Earth and what to do when they make up their minds.
Interestingly one of the students is a young lady and while she does end needing to call for help at one point, the treatment of her is fairly egalitarian by the standards of the 1960s. She never gets sent off to make the tea, for example.
This is a six part BBC serial from 1961. I don't know much about its author except he was a writer for Francis Storm Investigates in 1960. In this, two students leap at the chance to perform field work in lieu of writing theses; this draws the pair into the investigation of two mysteries: strange signals from beyond Pluto (but nowhere near the stars) and a strange humming, energy-draining cylinder found buried under the sand of the island they are on. This mystery builds rather at a leisurely pace but the solution leaves with the problem of working out which of two incompatible stories, one of which promises vague good things and the other the brutal exploitation of Earth and what to do when they make up their minds.
Interestingly one of the students is a young lady and while she does end needing to call for help at one point, the treatment of her is fairly egalitarian by the standards of the 1960s. She never gets sent off to make the tea, for example.
