Second part exploring how the long running police series Softly Softly moved three of its senior cast members from black and white west country and into colourful Thamesford.

Second part exploring how the long running police series Softly Softly moved three of its senior cast members from black and white west country and into colourful Thamesford.

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In March 1965, Ted Willis and the Screen Writers Guild called for the end of the BBC's Drama Department along with its phalanx of story editors! One writer tells Huw Weldon they may have a point...

In March 1965, Ted Willis and the Screen Writers Guild called for the end of the BBC's Drama Department along with its phalanx of story editors! One writer tells Huw Weldon they may have a point...

In 1961, the future director had his first full length television script produced, a half hour children's fantasy featuring a cast which includes some familiar names...

In 1961, the future director had his first full length television script produced, a half hour children's fantasy featuring a cast which includes some familiar names...

Dr Anna Hastings can only now continue her work with help from a dubious businessman called Constantine, but now she discovers there is a deadly virus epidemic and it may be her fault...

Dr Anna Hastings can only now continue her work with help from a dubious businessman called Constantine, but now she discovers there is a deadly virus epidemic and it may be her fault...

Continuing the story of this lost BBC serial. Peter Warner is infected with the R.D.7 virus and Dr Anna Hastings is treating him like an experimental specimen - but viruses can spread...

Continuing the story of this lost BBC serial. Peter Warner is infected with the R.D.7 virus and Dr Anna Hastings is treating him like an experimental specimen - but viruses can spread...

Episode 2 of this scientific serial in which a lab worker has been bitten by an infected rat, and has been taken by Dr Anna Hastings to an isolated spot on the eastern coast. But are her motives pure?

Episode 2 of this scientific serial in which a lab worker has been bitten by an infected rat, and has been taken by Dr Anna Hastings to an isolated spot on the eastern coast. But are her motives pure?

Retelling the story of a lost BBC serial from November 1961.

Retelling the story of a lost BBC serial from November 1961.