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The Long Sleep
Episode A-26
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Catherine (Tessa Wyatt) is visited by Straker.[1]

Production Info
Director Jeremy Summers
Story by
Screenplay by David Tomblin
Production Code
IMDB Ref tt0735636
Previous Mindbender
Next None
Transmission Info
Episode A-26
Airdate 15 March 1973
Previous The Responsibility Seat
Next None
Chronology
Story date(s) Unknown - Between early April 1980 and late March 1981.
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Synopsis

Ten years earlier Straker accidentally knocked Catherine Frazer down in his car as she was running away from something which frightened her and she has been unconscious ever since. Now Catherine awakes from her coma and explains that she and a boy named Tim whom she had not long met went to a derelict farm-house to take recreational drugs. There they saw two aliens planting a bomb. The couple ran off - Catherine into the path of Straker's car, Tim, she understood to have fallen off a roof and died. However, he was taken by the aliens who took him over and is now back, looking no older than he did ten years ago and about to set off the bomb.[2]

Notes: Catherine's experience with Tim takes place on 29th and 30th March, 1970, after the Turkey earthquake, which occurred on 28th.

Episode Cast

  • Ed Bishop - Cmdr. Ed Straker
  • Wanda Ventham - Col. Virginia Lake
  • Vladek Sheybal - Dr. Doug Jackson
  • Tessa Wyatt - Catherine Frazer
  • Christian Roberts - Tim Redman
  • Michael Billington - Col. Paul Foster
  • John Garrie - Van Driver
  • Christopher Robbie - Bomb Disposal Officer
  • Anouska Hempel - SHADO Operative Lieutenant Catherine Scott
  • Mel Oxley -Space Intruder Detector SID (voice) (uncredited)

Episode Crew

  • Art Direction By Bob Bell
  • Makeup Department
    • Alex Garfath - Makeup Artist
    • Alice Holme - Hair Stylist
  • Second Unit Director Or Assistant Director
    • Frank Hollands - Assistant Director
  • Camera And Electrical Department
    • Jack Lowin - Camera Operator
  • Costume And Wardrobe Department
    • Jean Fairlie - Costume Supervisor
  • Other Crew
    • Doreen Soan - Continuity

References


Season 1
Identified I Exposed I The Cat with Ten Lives I Conflict I A Question of Priorities I E.S.P. I Kill Straker! I Sub-Smash I Destruction I The Square Triangle I Close Up I The Psychobombs I Survival I Mindbender I Flight Path I The Man Who Came Back I The Dalotek Affair I Timelash I Ordeal I Court Martial I Computer Affair I Confetti Check A-OK I The Sound of Silence I Reflections in the Water I The Responsibility Seat I The Long Sleep
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