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Fred Hoyle, John Elliot. A new radio telescope picks up from the constellation of Andromeda a complex series of signals which prove to be a programme for a giant computer. After the computer is built it begins to relay information from Andromeda. Scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to mankind, knowledge that could ...
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Kelly Reilly. Christine Jones. Jane Asher. Professor Madeleine Dawnay. David Haig. General Vandenberg. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Yorkshire scientists disagree about the ...
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Mar 27, 2006 · A for Andromeda: Directed by John Strickland. With Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox, Kelly Reilly, Jane Asher. In the Yorkshire Dales, a group of scientists receive radio signals from the Andromeda Galaxy.
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- 2006-03-27
paulj-murphy 27 March 2006. Any schoolboy would be ashamed of the scientific mistakes in this. For example, the team send radio messages to Andromeda and get immediate replies! Andromeda is millions of light years away and so any radio signals would take millions of years to get there and back!
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In 1961, A FOR ANDROMEDA was a seven part series penned by Fred Hoyle and John Elliott that helped propel Julie Christie on the road to stardom. This has been distilled down to a 90 minute precis for the new age, main premise intact , but new advances in computer and biotechnology to make it just as relevant today as it was back then, perhaps ...
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A for Andromeda is a British television science fiction drama serial first made and broadcast by the BBC in seven parts in 1961. Written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle, in conjunction with author and television producer John Elliot, it concerns a group of scientists who detect a radio signal from another galaxy that contains instructions for the design of an advanced computer.