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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Creator Fred Hoyle
The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962)
Created by Fred Hoyle
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Synopsis
Kidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman, John Fleming—along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid—are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country. Upon arrival, the group discover a duplicate of Fleming's machine 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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
6 Episodes E1 Cold Front
Andromeda has survived her fall into the underground pool. She and John Fleming go on the run from the British authorities.
E2 Gale Warning
Fleming and Andromeda are being hunted both by the British Government and by the Intel trading consortium, who are developing another supercomputer in the newly-independent Middle Eastern country of Azaran.
E3 Azaran Forecast
The Intel trading organization have kidnapped biochemist Madeleine Dawnay and physicist John Fleming and want them to work for them. Something strange is happening to the world's weather, and Andromeda's health is failing.
E4 Storm Centres
The Intel trading consortium has backed a military coup in Azaran. Mlle Gamboule has been drawn to the computer by Andromeda who, apparently dying, is determined to work out the purpose of the message from space.
E5 Hurricane
The alien enzyme is causing the Earth's atmosphere to get thinner, and violent storms are sweeping the world. Intel get the scientists to develop a solution, to be sold on their terms. A counter-revolution led by the former president overthrows the rebels and Intel.
E6 The Roman Peace
Fleming and Dawney work on a formula to restore Andromeda to health. Andromeda deciphers the signals, but can Earth be saved?