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British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide (Popular TV Genres)

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Directed at academic audiences, this collection looks at British science fictional television at key points in its history as presented in representative productions. The collection opens with an overview provided by the editors. Complete contents are as follows:

1 John R. Cook and Peter Wright--'Futures past' : an introduction to and brief survey of British science fiction television
2 James Chapman--QUARTERMASS and the origins of British television sf
3 Nicholas J. Cull---Tardis at the OK Corral : DOCTOR WHO and the USA
4 Sue Short--Countering the counterculture : The PRISONER and the 1960s
5 John R. Cook--The age of Aquarius : utopia and anti-utopia in late 1960s' and early 1970s' British science fiction television
6 Nicholas J. Cull--The man who make THUNDERBIRDS: an interview with Gerry Anderson
7 Andy Sawyer--Everyday life in the post-catastrophe future : Terry Nation's SURVIVORS
8 David Seed--TV docudrama and the nuclear subject : THE WAR GAME, THE DAY AFTER and THREADS
9 Una McCormack--Resist the host : BLAKE'S 7--a very British future
10 Peter Wright--Echoes of discontent : conservative politics and SAPPHIRE AND STEEL
11 M. J. Simpson--Counterpointing the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
12 Elyce Rae Helford--'OK, homeboys, let's posse!' : masculine anxiety, gender, race and class in RED DWARF
13 Catriona Miller--British apocalypses now - or then? : THE UNIVITED, INVASION: EARTH and THE LAST TRAIN
14 Further reading