SciFi A-Z #Design by Barry Learoyd

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.

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.

A play about a British family living on a farm in an isolated valley in the aftermath of a nuclear war finds their idyll is shattered when a detachment of American troops arrive. Broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1959.