Television Playhouse: Bellweather Nine (ITV 1959 with Charles Lloyd Pack and Joyce Carey)

UK / ITV Network-Associated Rediffusion / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Friday 15 May 1959 @ 9.00pm in black and white

Writer: A.P. Dearsley / Design: Frank Gillman / Director: John Rhodes

Series: Television Playhouse

SciFi drama. A scatty professor plans to beat the government into the space race.

cast
CHARLES LLOYD PACK as Humphrey Bellweather
JOYCE CAREY as Amanda Pryce-Pryce
PETER MYERS as Monty Brotherton
JOSE READ as Doris Hockley
ANTHONY SHARP as Fingle
JAMES BELCHAMBER as Jones
DEREK AYLWARD as Mervyn Dashwood

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