Undermind

Season

1965

6.9

Personnel Officer Drew Heriot returns to England after working in Australia to discover his brother behaving oddly, to the distress of his sister-in-law Anne. Investigating together they discover that a disembodied alien force is using high frequency signals to brainwash people - including Drew's brother - into committing subversive acts, as a prelude to a full-scale invasion. Together, Drew and Anne battle to stop the acts of sabotage while trying to alert the authorities to the danger...

Episode List

S1 • E1

Instance One

Police Detective Frank Herriot has attacked a member of Parliament and otherwise behaves strangely. His brother Drew and estranged wife Anne try to understand with the help of a psychiatrist, but he - the psychiatrist - is soon murdered.

S1 • E2

Flowers of Havoc

Drew,Anne and Val search for answers to why a mysterious brass rubbing of a medieval knight was mailed from a small seaside town. They find the place overrun with bikers and young thugs, and the local vicar strangely complacent.

S1 • E3

The New Dimension

Drew is inexplicably on a client list of a murdered call girl, and is put through some high-pressure questioning, and is identified by a girl he's never seen. Anne goes under cover at a shady employment agency.

S1 • E4

Death in England

An old IRA fighter is invited to London to dedicate a statue of a deceased British Army foe. The unlikely request is answered positively, to the shock of his elderly comrades in arms, who bitterly oppose his willing involvement.

S1 • E5

Too Many Enemies

Attempting to foil a plot to steal the 'black boxes' - containing signals from space, possibly from aliens - from the Kimberley Vale radio-telescope observatory, Drew and Anne are horrified to find out who is actually behind the affair.

S1 • E6

Intent to Destroy

In a run down hotel, a stockbroker receives tips from a man who claims he can foretell the future, including the death of "someone famous" in front of many people. Herriot tries to stop it, and nearly dies himself.

S1 • E7

Song of Death

What's the connection between the alarmingly numerous suicides of doctors and musical birthday jingles they all received? And who is masterminding the operation?

S1 • E8

Puppets of Evil

The Underminds gain control over a popular children's story writer, and slowly, her cartoon and puppet creation,"Zoomer", is joined by a monstrous fish-like character, "Mulagatawny" that that tell terrible stories that upset children's innocence and beliefs, such as where Father Christmas tries to kill them. The whole thing explodes when against her will, she devises a puppet performance where Zoomer himself is murdered, leaving her career ruined and her reputation disgraced.

S1 • E9

Test for the Future

A push, a scream, a job to be filled. Two men rehearsing - rehearsing a plan with serious consequences for the country's future.

S1 • E10

Waves of Sound

The Underminds have recruited a has-been radio comedian and the staff of cold research hydro to plan a mass hypnosis scheme to spread a deadly disease.

S1 • E11

End Signal

The true and frightening scale of the Undermind plot is revealed. Can communications minister Tillinger's jamming station stop the second signal from completing their plans?