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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Running time
  
6x45 Minutes

Final episode date
  
2 August 1962

Number of episodes
  
6

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IMDb

Genre
  
Sci-Fi Serial

No. of episodes
  
6

First episode date
  
28 June 1962

Network
  
BBC One

Executive producer
  
Directed by
  
John Elliot (Eps 1,3,5)John Knight (Eps 2,4,6)

Starring
  
Peter HallidaySusan HampshireJohn HollisMary Morris

Cast
  
Similar
  
A for Andromeda, The Buccaneers, A come Andromeda, The Code Room, The First Churchills

The andromeda breakthrough all those young fellows are keen now


The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial A for Andromeda, again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.

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Plot Summary

Kidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman (John Hollis), John Fleming (Peter Halliday) along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay (Mary Morris) and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid (Susan Hampshire), are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country.

Upon arrival, the group find a duplicate of the machine Fleming designed has been built by Intel. After many dangers, Fleming finds both the reason for the original message having been sent and the means to bring the machine under human control.

Things take a deadly turn when Fleming discovers the politically unstable leader's hope to make use of his and Dawnay's skills and Andromeda's other worldly abilities...

Casting

The title star of the previous serial, Julie Christie, was unavailable due to other projects. As a result, the role was recast with Susan Hampshire succeeding Christie as Andromeda. To tie in with the recast, Andromeda is reconstructed with some minor facial differences.

Availability

The complete TV serial survives in the BBC archives and was released, alongside the surviving episode plus material from A for Andromeda and various extra features, as part of The Andromeda Anthology DVD set in 2006.

Novelisation

Hoyle and Elliot's novelisation was published by Harper and Row in 1964, as Andromeda Breakthrough by arrangement with the BBC, and paperback editions followed from Fawcett World Library (1965) in USA and Corgi (1966) in Britain. Judith Merril reported that although the novelisation suffered from "routine writing, stereotyped characters, and an apparent belief in the Ian Fleming school of international intrigue," the scientists-protagonists were "anything but stereotyped," and "a fair cross-section of the kinds of people who are attracted to scientific work." Merril concluded that the cliched elements "provide a reasonably amusing background to a genuinely intriguing scientific puzzle."

References

The Andromeda Breakthrough Wikipedia


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