Plateau of Fear
{{Short description|British television series}}
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| writer = Malcolm Stuart Fellows
Ross Sutherland
| director = Kim Mills
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| starring = Gerald Flood
John Barron
Ferdy Mayne
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| num_episodes = 6
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| runtime = 30 minutes
| company = ABC Weekend Television
| channel = ITV
| first_aired = {{start date|1961|9|24|df=y}}
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Plateau of Fear is a British science-fiction television drama series which aired in a six parts on ITV in 1961.Baskin p.57 A British journalist investigates as a series of attacks on a nuclear power station, located in the Andes in South America, which he comes to believe may have been caused by some giant beast.
Cast
- Gerald Flood as Mark Bannerman
- John Barron as Dr. Miguel Aranda
- Ferdy Mayne as General Villagran
- Richard Coleman as Ralph Morton
- Stewart Guidotti as Peter Blake
- Jan Miller as Dr. Susan Fraser
- Peter Allenby as Lorca
- Maureen Lindholm as Julietta Aranda
- Roger Delgado as General Perera
Sequels
Flood and Guidotti appeared as Bannerman and Blake in two further series, City Beneath the Sea and Secret Beneath the Sea.
References
Bibliography
- Ellen Baskin. Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press, 1996.