SciFi A-Z #BBC production

The first ever piece of television science fiction was a 35 minute extract from Karel Čapek's 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)' broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1938.

A complete adaptation of Karel Čapek's 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)' was broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1948.

A adaptation of H G Wells' novella 'The Time Machine' was broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1949.

J B Priestley's stage play 'Summer Day's Dream' was performed by the original cast on the BBC Television Service in 1949.

The adventures of Ian Spencer, a human boy befriended by a Martian boy called Bilaphodorous who has crash-landed on Earth were broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1951-52.

Nigel Kneale's most famous creation, Professor Bernard Quatermass, made his debut on the BBC Television Service in 1953. When an experimental rocket crashes back to Earth, only one member of the three-man crew emerges...

A short play about a man who dies and is brought back to life with a dose of adrenalin, but he now lives five seconds ahead of anyone else. Broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1953.

Angus MacVicar own television adaptation of his children's radio serial and novel was broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1954.

Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel featured Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1954.

Angus MacVicar own television adaptation of his second children's radio serial and novel was broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1955.

Professor Bernard Quatermass returned to the BBC Television Service in 1955. Strange meteorite showers lead to Quatermass uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government.

A TV serial for children set on a space station orbiting the earth and following the lives of the Winter children between school lessons. Broadcast on BBC Television Service in 1955.