The Andromeda Breakthrough(1962)

Name: The Andromeda Breakthrough
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1962-06-28
Rating: 3.3

June 28, 19621 Season · 6 Episodes

Ended

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Drama

3.3from 2 users

Overview

Kidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman, John Fleming—along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid—are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country. Upon arrival, the group discover a duplicate of Fleming's machine has been built by Intel. After many dangers, Fleming finds both the reason for the original message having been sent and the means to bring the machine under human control.

Created by Fred Hoyle

Network BBC One

Seasons

Miniseries

6 Episodes

1962

E01

Cold Front

6/28/1962·45m

Andromeda has survived her fall into the underground pool. She and John Fleming go on the run from the British authorities.

E02

Gale Warning

7/5/1962·45m

Fleming and Andromeda are being hunted both by the British Government and by the Intel trading consortium, who are developing another supercomputer in the newly-independent Middle Eastern country of Azaran.

E03

Azaran Forecast

7/12/1962·45m

The Intel trading organization have kidnapped biochemist Madeleine Dawnay and physicist John Fleming and want them to work for them. Something strange is happening to the world's weather, and Andromeda's health is failing.

E04

Storm Centers

7/19/1962·45m

The Intel trading consortium has backed a military coup in Azaran. Mlle Gamboule has been drawn to the computer by Andromeda who, apparently dying, is determined to work out the purpose of the message from space.

E05

Hurricane

7/26/1962·45m

The alien enzyme is causing the Earth's atmosphere to get thinner, and violent storms are sweeping the world. Intel get the scientists to develop a solution, to be sold on their terms. A counter-revolution led by the former president overthrows the rebels and Intel.

E06