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''1990'' is a British Television series produced by the BBC .

The series is set in a dystopian future (dubbed "'' Nineteen Eighty-Four '' plus six" by its creator Wilfred Greatorex ) where Britain is under the grip of the Department of Public Control, a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward played Jim Kyle, a journalist who turns renegade and begins to covertly fight the P.C.D. The officials of the P.C.D. in turn try to prove Kyle's rebellious activities.

''1990'' also starred Robert Lang , Barbara Kellerman , Lisa Harrow , Tony Doyle and Clive Swift .

Two series of eight episodes each were produced between 1977 and 1978 .


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