- 8.1/1021 votesLoading...
#1 - The Red Sky
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/1970
Dr Quist attempts to go on holiday, but gets involved instead in a series of jet engine experiments causing harm and the same mysterious hallucination.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
- 7.8/1021 votesLoading...
#2 - You Killed Toby Wren
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/1970
Quist's authority is questioned from all directions, and Ridge does some quiet investigations into hybrid science in Norwich.
Director: Terence Dudley
Writer: Kit Pedler, Terence Dudley, Gerry Davis
- 7.7/1031 votesLoading...
#3 - Tomorrow, the Rat
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/1970
Genetic engineering? Tampering with nature in a quest to make Superman? The experimentation is still only being carried out on rats, but with dangerous, and deadly results...
Director: Terence Dudley
Writer: Kit Pedler, Terence Dudley, Gerry Davis
- 7.7/1018 votesLoading...
#4 - The Battery People
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/1970
The Doomwatch team look into serious health issues experienced by male workers at a Welsh battery farm.
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot
Writer: Kit Pedler, Elwyn Jones, Gerry Davis
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#5 - Invasion
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/1970
Ridge and Hardcastle are sent on what seems a simple enough assignment, but stumble onto a major government cover up in an abandoned English manor.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Martin Worth
- 7.7/1019 votesLoading...
#6 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs...
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/1971
The Doomwatch team investigates the myth about the XYY chromosome after a schoolboy is expelled for possessing it.
Director: Eric Hills
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Robin Chapman
- 7.5/1022 votesLoading...
#7 - The Devil's Sweets
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/1970
While on the way to work, secretary Pat Hunnisett takes a free promotional chocolate from a group of girls on the street. Meanwhile, at the Doomwatch office, Quist and his team are investigating the sudden increase in the country's smokers, and are surprised when Pat arrives and lights up a cigarette for the first time in five years. Quist suspects that there could be a link between the promotional chocolates and 'Checker Board' cigarettes, whose recent sales are doing unexpectedly well. Should subliminal advertising be allowed?
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Don Shaw
- 7.4/1035 votesLoading...
#8 - The Plastic Eaters
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1970
What if a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic became as infectious as the common cold? When a plane crashes in South America, in quite extraordinary circumstances, it's up to Dr Quist's team to avert further disaster.
Director: Paul Ciappessoni
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
- 7.4/1024 votesLoading...
#9 - Project Sahara
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/1970
Doomwatch are joined by Doctor Robson, sent to undertake tests on the new 'Sahara' spray which is apparently capable of destroying all plant-life on the planet. But when Quist receives a phone call from the ministry, he is given orders to immediately suspend both Robson and Toby without any explanation. Closer investigation leads Quist and his team to discover that a new computerised security system run by Commander Keeping and Barker has become far too powerful, and is making its own decisions about government personnel.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, N.J. Crisp
- 7.4/1016 votesLoading...
#10 - The Logicians
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/15/1971
A powerful antidote formula has been stolen near a school full of gifted boys. Are they responsible, and is computer technology somehow to blame?
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Dennis Spooner
- 7.3/1017 votesLoading...
#11 - The Inquest
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/1971
An inquest is held into the death of a local girl from rabies. How was she infected? A local woman thinks she knows, and she doesn't believe dogs are involved.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Robert Holmes
- 7.3/1017 votesLoading...
#12 - Public Enemy
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/22/1971
A young boy dies while attempting to retrieve a ball from a high roof, but the cause of his death is not from falling. Doomwatch investigate.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Patrick Alexander
- 7.3/1014 votesLoading...
#13 - Hair Trigger
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 7/10/1972
A radical new procedure has been developed for treating violent criminals. The results are extremely positive, but Anne Tarrant is not convinced of its ethics.
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Writer: Kit Pedler, Brian Hayles, Gerry Davis
- 7.1/1017 votesLoading...
#14 - The Web of Fear
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/8/1971
The Doomwatch team investigate the mysterious outbreak of a deadly subtropical disease which somehow has cropped up on an isolated island off the coast of the UK.
Director: Eric Hills
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
- 7.1/1015 votesLoading...
#15 - The Human Time Bomb
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/1971
The government wants direction for the possible construction of more high-rise apartment buildings. Fay Chantry is asked to live in one and supply a report based on her experiences.
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Louis Marks
- 7.0/1015 votesLoading...
#16 - Train and De-train
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/1970
Two thousand animals are found dead in the Somerset countryside. Doomwatch investigate whether or not a new pesticide is to blame.
Director: Vere Lorrimer
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Don Shaw
- 7.0/1021 votesLoading...
#17 - The Islanders
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/1971
Doomwatch become involved with the inhabitants of a small, secluded island who have been forced to leave for the English mainland and are struggling to survive.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Louis Marks
- 7.0/1016 votesLoading...
#18 - Flight into Yesterday
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/1/1971
After a long-haul flight Dr Quist's reputation is put seriously in doubt when he arrives drunk to a meeting with the Prime Minister. Is it a simple case of jet-lag, or sabotage?
Director: Darrol Blake
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Martin Worth
- 6.9/1017 votesLoading...
#19 - In the Dark
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/15/1971
The death of a young man off the Scottish coast leads to the Doomwatch team investigating a cover up in the case of a sunken ship, and the discovery of a revolutionary life-changing science.
Director: Lennie Mayne
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, John Gould
- 6.8/1015 votesLoading...
#20 - The Iron Doctor
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/25/1971
A computer oversees the wellbeing of patients at a local hospital. The Doomwatch team look into whether it is saving patients or if something more sinister is afoot.
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Writer: Kit Pedler, Brian Hayles, Gerry Davis
- 6.3/1018 votesLoading...
#21 - No Room for Error
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/1971
A deadly new strain of typhoid is sweeping through local schools. There is a treatment, though, and the team at Doomwatch endorse this in spite of its side effects.
Director: Darrol Blake
Writer: Kit Pedler, Roger Parkes, Gerry Davis
- 6.1/1013 votesLoading...
#22 - Waiting for a Knighthood
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/26/1972
A vicar collapses during a sermon, and there are seemingly unrelated events, one involving John Ridge. The answers are out there, but are obscured by big business and profit margins.
Director: Pennant Roberts
Writer: Kit Pedler, Terence Dudley, Gerry Davis
- 6.0/1022 votesLoading...
#23 - Re-Entry Forbidden
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/1970
The first nuclear-powered rocket, Sunfire One, is sent into space with the first British astronaut, Dick Larch, on board. After the rocket enters Earth orbit, Larch enters an incorrect course alteration, and fails to see the error indicator, which results in Sunfire One splashing down in the sea. Quist is asked by Doctor Goldsworthy to determine whether Larch is suitable for any further missions, as another such mistake could result in the spacecraft becoming a nuclear bomb.
Director: Paul Ciappessoni
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Don Shaw
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#24 - Friday's Child
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1970
Doctor Quist and Doomwatch become embroiled in an inquiry into the heart-transplanting practices of Doctor Patrick. Several uncomfortable questions are raised: what has he been doing to a newborn baby that has been placed in his care, and should genetic engineering be permitted in society?
Director: Paul Ciappessoni
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Harry Green
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#25 - Burial at Sea
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1970
When a lifeboat crew discovers a luxury cruiser adrift in the English Channel, they find on board are a group of wealthy pop stars and their girlfriends, one of whom is dead. Doomwatch investigate, and discover that the death was not from drug abuse as was previously suspected; instead they begin to uncover the facts behind the dumping of a deadly chemical warfare compound in a deep sea trench, which seems to be far from dormant.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, Dennis Spooner
The Best Episodes of Doomwatch
Every episode of Doomwatch ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Doomwatch!
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set...
Genre:Drama
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"The Red Sky" is the best rated episode of "Doomwatch". It scored 8.1/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis, it aired on 4/6/1970. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "You Killed Toby Wren".