Associated-Rediffusion / Rediffusion London

Region

London, weekdays (September 22, 1955 - July 29, 1968)

Associated-Rediffusion launched the first independent television service in the UK, providing the weekday service for London between 1955 and 1968. They rebranded as Rediffusion London in 1964. After the 1967 franchise review, the Independent Television Authority (ITA) decided that there would be no place for Rediffusion in the new structure, but told them and ABC - who lost out to LWT for the weekend licence - to merge and form Thames Television to continue London's weekday service.

SciFi productions

One (TV play, 1956)

One is a British television science fiction play, produced by Associated-Rediffusion for ITV. It featured DONALD PLEASENCE and was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by David Karp.

The novel is set in the future in an unspecified Americanized country, and depicts a society on its way to a self-proclaimed perfection which consists in dissension having been rooted out and every citizen identifying his or her own interests with those of the "benevolent State". In order to achieve this aim, a sophisticated system of surveillance, subtle forms of re-education and, if necessary, brainwashing has been set up. A man who believes himself to be an active supporter of the system is found guilty of "heresy" by the authorities and accordingly is held captive and receives the State's routine treatment for his allegedly deviant behaviour.

The play was broadcast on April 16, 1956 at 8.00pm on ITV (Associated Rediffusion, ATV Midlands). No known copies of the play exist.

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