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Artemis 81 is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alastair Reid. Commissioned by BBC producer David Rose, it was broadcast by the BBC on 29 December 1981. It was one of the last TV performances from Anthony Steel.
Dec 29, 1981 · Artemis 81: Directed by Alastair Reid. With Hywel Bennett, Dinah Stabb, Dan O'Herlihy, Sting. The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Alastair Reid
- 1981-12-29
Artemis 81 is a three-hour conceptual/philosophical science-fiction film, made for BBC1 in 1981, by writer David Rudkin. It follows a novelist and a journalist as they investigate a series of suicides and a cosmic threat, involving a Danish artefact and a parallel reality.
A BBC TV drama about a novelist who unleashes ancient powers of destruction by exploiting a pagan statue and a Hitchcockian plot. Artemis 81 is a complex, erudite and ambitious work, featuring references to Wagner, Hitchcock and European mythology.
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Artemis 81. 1 9 8 1 (UK) 1 x 180 minute episode. From 9.00 pm to midnight on Tuesday 29 December 1981, BBC1 broadcast one of the most densely symbolic, allusive and obscure pieces of television ever made. For the first hour and fifteen minutes or so, it was a finely crafted supernatural thriller.
Summaries. The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death. Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ...
