The Best Episodes of Doomwatch Season 2

Quist's authority is questioned from all directions, and Ridge does some quiet investigations into hybrid science in Norwich.

Director: Terence Dudley

Writer: Terence Dudley, Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Martin Worth

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: Louis Marks, Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

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: Roger Parkes, Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

The Doomwatch team investigates the myth about the XYY chromosome after a schoolboy is expelled for possessing it.

Director: Eric Hills

Writer: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Robin Chapman

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: Brian Hayles, Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Martin Worth

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, John Gould

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: Louis Marks, Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Robert Holmes

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Dennis Spooner

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: Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler, Patrick Alexander