Mystery thriller starring Ian Bannen and Judy Geeson. When Dr Del Shaw, from the scientific watchdog group Doomwatch, arrives on a small island off the Cornish coast to investigate the effects of oil pollution, he encounters hostile villagers, who are frightened and suspicious of strangers. After stumbling upon a child's body hastily buried in the woods, he realises that the villagers have something to hide.
A spin-off from the modish ecological BBC TV series - a more fact-based version of The X-Files - this mystery thriller crash-landed unhappily in the swamp of horror instead of on the firmer ground of science fact or fiction. John Paul, Ian Bannen and Judy Geeson look suitably intense as an investigation into the effects of a sunken oil tanker on the inhabitants of an island off the Cornish coast uncovers something nastily mutated in the biological woodshed. It's risibly alarmist, certainly, but the environmental dangers it pinpoints are only too topical.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Dr Del Shaw | Ian Bannen |
| Victoria Brown | Judy Geeson |
| Dr Quist | John Paul |
| Dr Ridge | Simon Oates |
| Admiral | George Sanders |
| Hartwell | Percy Herbert |
| Sir Henry Layton | Geoffrey Keen |
| Vicar | Joseph O'Conor |
| Mrs Straker | Shelagh Fraser |
| Dr Fay Chantry | Jean Trend |
| Bradley | Joby Blanshard |
| Ferry skipper | George Woodbridge |
| Brian Murray | Brian Anthony |
| Mrs Murray | Rita Davies |
| Bob Gillette | James Cosmo |
| Tom Straker | Michael Brennan |
| Brewer | Norman Bird |
| Miss Johnson | Constance Chapman |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter Sasdy |
