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I distinctly remember this being shown 'late night' (10:30 - 11:00-ish) on New Zealand television back in about 1973 or 1974. I don't think it was wildly successful, but New Zealand television wasn't particularly good back then - Coronation Street was 5 YEARS behind the episodes shown in the UK. It's not particularly good now, far too woke, with DEI hires all over the place, but these are the times in which we live!

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The X Files connection is possibly a good one: but The Omega Factor sounds more like it influenced the X-Files spin-off, Millennium. AND like a cross between Doom Watch and The Stone Tape. (Apparently, some real world paranormal researchers take the Stone Tape seriously: and feel it to be a good explanation for ghosts)

I remember this from years ago. It was excellent. I must try and hunt it down and watch it again.

Wasn’t Sapphire and Steel’s last Adventure aired by a different ITV company …

As I recall … ? Brett’s wife died when he was recording some of the earlier episodes: it’s supposed to have given his performance a certain amount of … *intensity*. (‘Intensity’ is possibly the best choice of word, I think: where’s probably very few words to describe the situation)

Is it just me … or does Prentice Hancock only get cast if you need a chap with a moustache … ? Unless you need a Thal without a moustache … ?

It’s a Le Carré adaption, you say … ? That should make it interestingly murky. I don’t know about autobiographical, though. I SEEM to recall seeing Dame Stella Rimington - or possibly Dame Eliza Mannington Buller - being interviewed about spy fiction: and saying that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy had the folks at 6, *worried*. It seemed Le Carré had revealed a little too much … (I have to admit, Le Carré introducing the term ‘reptile fund’, to the public … is something I’m grateful for. It seemed a lot more accurate than ‘slush fund’ or ‘black funds’)

Interesting to see Anthony Ainley playing something OTHER than the Master! (I mentioned him to a couple of my quiz regulars, back in January. It seems his father, Henry, was a noted actor in his day. There’s even a photo of Ainley Sr on Henry’s Wikipedia entry: and the resemblance is noticeable.) Now … did Roger Lloyd-Pack call anyone ‘Dave’ … ?

I’m tempted to say “I love Dick”. But that would; A. Be a lie, as I never saw it. B. Sound a bit rude!!!!!!!! At any rate I never saw the show: but know my late Uncle Brian was a fan of the original series. I do know that theme tune, though. I can remember hearing The Devil’s Gallop a few times as a youngster, but I’m blowed if I can remember *where* … ! I’m also feel that the music for the Fifteenth Doctor puts me in mind of it: whether that’s deliberate, I don’t know.

in a domestic situation, or HAVING a domestic situation?

That's earthquake or jesus coming to earth