1990
1990

1990

1977 2 Seasons 16 Episodes ⭐ 6.5 Drama

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Creed of Slaves

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves

EP 2

When did you last see your father

"We don't make laws, we only carry them out". Despite the Home Secretary's abolition of all exit visa appeals, Kyle succ

EP 3

Health Farm

"...no barbed-wire, no strait-jackets, no padded cells. After all, this is 1990". When the Public Control Department sen

EP 4

Decoy

"This is an island prison. Getting us all together is one thing. Getting us out is something else". High-profile politic

EP 5

Voice from the past

"The age of the common man seems to be degenerating into the age of the common denominator". When the Public Control Dep

EP 6

Whatever happened to Cardinal Wolsey

The Ombudsman's Court supposedly exists to hear and review appeals by citizens and consists of a tribunal of judges, but

EP 7

Witness

Dr. Alan Vickers, whom Kyle and Breet helped escape, has been campaigning throughout the United States to get public and

EP 8

Non-Citizen

After the Kyle Trial fiasco, Skardon takes his revenge by turning Kyle into a Non-Citizen: stripping Kyle of his ID and

EP 1

Pentagons

There's good news and bad news in Britain. The good news: Home Secretary Dan Mellor has been replaced by Kate Smith, and

EP 2

The Market Price

"This mate of yours is a shark. With his jaws into whole cargoes. Petrol. Fags. Booze. Grub. It's up to us to nanny him?

EP 3

Trapline

"Who are we out to nail? Careguard, the Home Secretary or Skardon and the PCD?" Jim Kyle is in trouble - he has fallen i

EP 4

Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope

"Authorised Systematic Harassment has enormous potential. The slow and noiseless steamroller of the State. The daily bro

EP 5

Hire and Fire

"If Kyle can uncover those extortionists where an expert PCD man failed, he is obviously implicated with them." When wor

EP 6

You'll Never Walk Alone

EP 7

Young Sparks

"Kyle'll be back to normal in about an hour. Until then he'll probably show an amusing tendency to tell the truth." Grou

EP 8

What Pleases the Prince

"We always said there'd be Peace Crimes Trials one day ... We're winning now. There'll have to be a purge of the PCD soo

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