Cast:  Dr Vickers (Donald Gee), Mrs Vickers (Eileen Davies), Randall (Paul Chapman), Nolan (Willie Jonah), Burnley (Desmond Jordan), Tina Vickers (Sophie Coghill), Jack Grey (Luke Hanson), Mrs Grey (Lynn Dalby), PCD Inspector (Stacy Davies), Emigration Officer (Malcolm Rennie), Willoe [Spelling could be wrong] (Robert Swales), Harper (Bruce Lidington), Kendall (Bill Rourke), Stevedore [spelling could be wrong] (Colin Fay)

Story:  Britain has become a closed country under a totalitarian government.  Emigration is now virtually impossible.  Dr Vickers wants to leave Britain but has been refused an exit visa by the Public Control Department, otherwise know as the PCD.  Crusading journalist Jim Kyle is scathing of the government and the PCD in particular, in the only non-government owned newspaper.  He also runs a secret underground organise that helps people to leave the country illegally.  Vickers turns to Kyle.  However, the PCD have eyes and ears everywhere.  Will Kyle be able to get Vickers and the rest of his escapees out of the country before the net tightens...?

Cast:  Dr Vickers (Donald Gee), Chairperson (Gillian Raine), Ian Cursley (Peter Artard), Randall (Paul Chapman), Henry Duncan (Reginald jessup), Mrs Vickers (Eileen Davies), Norton (John Hamill), Carol Harper (Alix Kirsta), PCD Inspector (Stacy Davies), Emigration Officers (Mike Hall, David Rowley), Tina Vickers (Sophie Coghill) [not credited on screen]

Story:  Vickers finally manages to leave the country, but is forced to leave his wife and daughter behind.  Under international law Britain will have to let them leave the country once Vickers becomes resident in another country.  The PCD are not happy with this.  Will they be able to find a loophole in the law and shut Kyle's group down...?

Cast:  Charles Wainwright (Ray Smith), Dr Gelbert (Donald Douglas), Agnes Culmore (Mitzi Rogers), Ivor Griffith (John Rhys-Davies), Halloran (Howard Bell)

Story:  Union leader Charles Wainwright is sent to a conference in America by the PCD to trumpet their cause.  However, he gives a speech that derides the PCD and everything it stands for.  On arriving back in England Wainwright is picked up by the PCD.  Kyle sees an opportunity to get at the PCD if he can manage to get an interview with Wainwright.  However, the PCD are already moving to stop Kyle...

Cast:  Calhoun (Victor Maddern), Dr Sondeberg (Graham Crowden), Carr (George Mallaby), Bowden (Alan Tucker), Kingston (Antony Scott), Reporter (Phyllida Nash), PCD Officer (Jonathan Adams)

Story:  Dr Sondeberg visits Britain to look at the work of the PCD.  However, he has an ulterior motive for visiting this country.  Meanwhile, Kyle's associate, Dave Brett gets Kyle to obtain a permit allowing them to travel around the country.  Dave has a deal to get people out of the country with notorious gangster Sammy Calhoun which Kyle does not like at all...

Cast:  Brian (Simon Chandler), Avery (Richard Hurndall), Mitchell (Esmond Knight), Luff (Simon Lack), Baker (Michael Graham Cox), Walters (Damien Thomas), Williams (Joby Blanshard), Dr. Bland (John Quarmby), Sefton (Raymond Mason), Nurse Stevens (Claire Davenport), Len (Terry Bale), Old Man (Robert Sansom), PCD Inspector (Terrance Ward), P.C. (David Lyell), Peters (David Rolfe)

Story:  Kyle tries to help Avery, a publisher of an illegal underground newspaper, when the PCD try to shut his operation down.

Cast:  Philip Carter (John Castle), Susie Carter (Anna Cropper), Attorney-General Graham (John Philips), PCD Inspector Jones (Frank Mills), Clayton (Martin C. Thurley), Ed Burbank (Ed Bishop), Chairperson (Pamela Sholto), Lena Yates (Janie Booth), Stan Aldwick (Graeme Eton), Davies (John York), PCD Supervisor (James Lister), Talbot (Ian Liston), PCD men (Stephen Kane, Reg Turner), Bimbo (Bimbo) [this is a dog, by the way!]

Story:  Philip Carter, a judge, is a stickler for upholding the law.  However, the PCD are putting pressure on him to play to their tune.  As he continues to resist the PCD's advances, Kyle offers him an escape route.  However, Carter wants to continue serving the law, no matter what the cost...

Cast:  Dr. Vickers (Donald Gee), Maggie Kyle (Patricia Garwood), Bevan (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), Bingham (Peter Myers), Paul (Mark Heath), Prosecuter (John Bennett), Defence Counsel (Yvonne Gilan), Chairman (Clifford Mollison), Technician (Michael Cashman), PCD men (Terry Walsh, Alan Harris)

Story:  The PCD put Kyle on trial for helping people leave the country illegally.  However, the trial hangs on the evidence of Dr Vickers, who is now resident in America.  The PCD go to America to offer Vickers a deal they think he cannot refuse.  Will Vickers stick to his principles or take the PCD's offer...?

Cast:  Auckland (Edward Judd), Sammy Calhoun (Victor Maddern), Nutter Stonebridge (Colin Edwynn), Agnes Culmore (Mitzi Rogers), Professor Cheever (Vernon Dobtcheff), Frank Woodcock (Tony Sympson), PCD Sergeant (Stacy Davies), Woman Non-Citizen (Julia Sutton)

Story:  After winning the trial Kyle has a right to feel smug.  However, the PCD have a trump card to play.  They revoke his cards which allow him to work and get food making him a non-citizen.  Having lost his home Kyle is forced to live rough on the street.  Meanwhile Calhoun goes to Brett asking for Kyle's help.  Finding him, though, proves to be a difficult task.  Will they find him before the short life expectancy of non-citizens runs it course...?

Posted:  8 March 1998
Last Updated:  6 June 2003