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Cult | News | 23 September 2004

Fantasy Sixties

Repeat of BBC Four's look at the explosion of fantasy TV in the Sixties.

Tonight BBC Two is repeating the documentary Fantasy Sixties, previously only broadcast on the satellite and cable channel BBC Four.

The launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in the 1950s captured the public's imagination and prompted TV writers in the Sixties to experiment with fantastical storylines.

Originally Broadcast as part of BBC Four's Summer in the Sixties season, Fantasy Sixties looks back at this explosion of escapist TV.

Contributors include James Chapman (author), Brian Clemens (scriptwriter, The Avengers), Gerald Harper (star of Adam Adamant Lives!), Cathy Johnson (author), Roger Langley (from The Prisoner Appreciation Society: Six of One) and Kim Newman (TV critic).

Fantasy Sixties is on BBC Two tonight at 11.20pm



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