The BEST episodes of Doomwatch season 1
Every episode of Doomwatch season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Doomwatch season 1!
Doomwatch is the code name of a semi-secret government department set up to keep an eye on, and try to contain, potentially hazardous scientific research. A highly independent team, headed by the incorruptible Dr Quist, observe the scientists while MI6 observe them. Projecting what could happen if a particular experiment or technology got out of hand, this exciting 1970s drama series is anchored in scientific fact and is frightingly close to reality…
#1 - The Devil's Sweets
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/1970
Four strangely dressed young ladies wearing a checker board patterned miniskirt and silver tights ambush two City Gents with a tray of sweets which they eagerly sample...
#2 - Project Sahara
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/1970
The time is fast approaching when a person's entire history - educational, medical, criminal, even financial - may end up as a foot of computer tape in some impenetrable central file. Worse still, a man's future career may depend upon the computer's evaluation. This week the Doomwatch team fall under the baleful eye of a newly established security section.
#3 - Re-Entry Forbidden
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/1970
A new, nuclear-powered rocket is being tested, with the first British astronaut aboard. The smallest error could turn it into a flying nuclear bomb spreading radioactive fallout over a wide area of Europe. And an error does occur.
#4 - Tomorrow, the Rat
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/1970
Genetic engineering? Tampering with nature in a quest to make Superman? The experimentation is still only being carried out on rats, but with dangerous, and deadly results...
#5 - The Plastic Eaters
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1970
What if a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic became as infectious as the common cold? When a plane crashes in South America, in quite extrodinary circumstances, it's up to Dr Quist's team to avert further disaster.
#6 - Friday's Child
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1970
#7 - Burial at Sea
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1970
#8 - The Red Sky
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/1970
A land rover pulls up underneath a light house high up on a cliff overlooking the English channel. Bernard Colley and his daughter Dana sees their friend Captain Tommy Gort coming out of the building to greet them – they think. But instead he is lurching, a haunted expression on his face towards the edge of the cliff. The Colleys are horrified. 'Why the hell isn't Quist here?' says Bernard. They run after him but they are too late. Gort stops at the edge of the cliff, clutching his head in pain. Inevitably, he topples over and plunges to his death.
#9 - Spectre at the Feast
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/13/1970
#10 - Train and De-train
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/1970
A small boy runs across a field into a forest, snapping a stick of a tree as he goes. Stick in hand he pauses by a tree to catch his breath while looking around the forest. He hears a noise from the tree above which scares him and he runs off. He sees a squirrel in the tree and throws the stick at it and hides behind another tree. He makes his way up the tree trying to reach the squirrel he threw the stick at. As he gets close the animal falls stiffly from the tree. The squirrel lies dead on the forest floor....
#11 - The Battery People
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/1970
Tough ex-miners in South Wales drinking gin instead of the traditional beer, giving their wives the cold shoulder and secretly turning to cock-fighting. It all sounds wildly out of character to Dr Quist and his team, who investigate despite the fact that all this is taking place in the Minister's own constituency.
#12 - Hear No Evil
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/4/1970