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Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already-published stories.

Original Release

10/04/1965 on BBC

Cast

Name	Character

George Lee	Taxi Driver
Robert Russell	Sgt. Burke
Derek Martin	Guard
Darryl Kavann	Tony Randall
Serafina Di Leo	Mexican
Vernon Joyner	Carter
Tim Gudgin	Newsreader
David Cargill	Robot
David Cargill
Richard Davies	First rebel

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Taste of Evil	Wednesday, 21 April 1971
2	To Lay a Ghost	Wednesday, 28 April 1971
3	This Body Is Mine	Wednesday, 05 May 1971
4	Deathday	Wednesday, 12 May 1971
5	The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow	Wednesday, 19 May 1971
6	Welcome Home	Wednesday, 26 May 1971
7	The Last Witness	Wednesday, 02 June 1971
8	The Man in My Head	Wednesday, 09 June 1971
9	The Chopper	Wednesday, 16 June 1971
10	The Uninvited	Wednesday, 23 June 1971
11	The Shattered Eye	Wednesday, 30 June 1971

Directors

Eric Hills, Michael Ferguson, Naomi Capon, Peter Cregeen, Roger Jenkins, John Gorrie, Peter Sasdy, Peter Potter, Philip Dudley, Alan Cooke, George Spenton-Foster, Gerald Blake, Rudolph Cartier, Peter Duguid, Paddy Russell, Raymond Menmuir, Ken Hannam, Robin Midgley, Douglas Camfield, John Gibson, Christopher Barry, Terence Dudley, Alan Bridges, Ian Curteis, Herbert Wise, Peter Hammond, James Cellan Jones, Philip Saville

Writers

Isaac Asimov, Stanley Miller, David Campton, Robert Muller, Leon Griffiths, John Wiles, Jeremy Paul, Hugh Whitemore, Meade Roberts, Larry Eisenberg, Frederik Pohl, John Wyndham, John Brunner, Clifford D. Simak, Hugh Leonard, Michael J. Bird, Brian Hayles, Bruce Stewart, Julian Bond, Mike Watts, John Tully, Angus Hall, Philip Broadley, E.M. Forster, Moris Farhi, Henry Kuttner, Alan Nourse, Martin Worth, Kenneth Cavander, Troy Kennedy-Martin, William Tenn, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Colin Kapp, Robert Gould, John Rankine, Mordecai Roshwald, Michael Ashe, Peter Phillips, Rog Phillips, Edward Boyd, Kate Wilhelm, David Climie, Owen Holder, Terry Nation, Nigel Kneale, Irene Shubik, J.B. Priestley, Robert Sheckley, Paul Erickson, J.G. Ballard, Jack Pulman, William Trevor, Donald Bull, Clive Exton, David T. Chantler, Clive Donner, Ray Bradbury

Cast

Name	Character

George Lee	Taxi Driver
Robert Russell	Sgt. Burke
Derek Martin	Guard
Darryl Kavann	Tony Randall
Serafina Di Leo	Mexican
Vernon Joyner	Carter
Tim Gudgin	Newsreader
David Cargill	Robot
David Cargill
Richard Davies	First rebel
John Moore	Matthias Granger
Pamela Craig	Miss Pringle
Sara Aimson	Freda
Geoffrey Alexander	Counsel
Martin Howells	Boston
Gina Manicom	Telephone Operator
Roy Stewart
David Smith	Boy
John Lawrence	Monster
Annabella Johnston	Contact Commercial Person #1