Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. 'Futures Past': an introduction to and brief survey of British science fiction television (John R.Cook and Peter Wright) -- 2. Quatermass and the origins of British television sf (James Chapman) -- 3. Tardis at the OK Corral: Doctor Who and the USA (Nicholas J. Cull) -- 4. Countering the counterculture: The Prisoner and the 1960s (Sue Short) -- 5. The age of Aquarius: utopia and anti-utopia in the late 1960s' and early 1970s' British science fiction television ( John R. Cook) -- 6. The man who made Thunderbirds: an interview with Gerry Anderson (Nicholas J. Cull) -- 7. Everyday life in the post-catastrophe future: Terry Nation's Survivors (Andy Sawyer) -- 8. TV docudrama and the nuclear subject: The War Game, The Day After and Threads (David Seed) -- 9. Resist the host: Blake's 7 - a very British future (Una McCormack) -- 10. Echoes of discontent: Conservative politics and Sapphire and Steel (Peter Wright) -- 11. Counterpointing the surrealism of the underlying metaphor in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (M.J.Simpson) -- 12. 'OK, homeboys, let's posse!' Masculine anxiety, gender, race and class in Red Dwarf (Elyce Rae Helford) -- 13. British apocalypses now - or then? The Uninvited, Invasion: Earth and The Last Train (Catriona Miller) -- Further Reading -- Notes on contributors -- Index.