Aug 15, 2019
Doomwatch: The Devil's Sweets (1.7, BBC, 1970)
"You are conditioning them to react to, um, a chequerboard stimuli."
"Yes."
"With food reward?"
"Yes."
"How traditional. Well, hardly experimental."
"Pavlovian psychology was never a dead end! It's not just the nibble and the bell, the rat lost in a maze..."
"More advanced."
"Obviously."
"Mmm, obviously."
#doomwatch#The Devil's sweets#1970#classic tv#Bbc#John Paul#Simon oates#Wendy hall#robert powell#Joby blanshard#Maurice roëves#William fox#john young#John law#Pamela sholto#Penny dixon#Bay white#John comer#Mary loughran#Pat connell#Beryl Bainbridge#Don shaw#David proudfoot#Wendy hall is finally given something more to do than make the tea and take calls. She actually gets a bit of plot this week!#Unfortunately that plot involves her being unconscious for quite a lot of the second half of the episode. Swings and roundabouts i guess#This one feels a bit rough around the edges. What exactly was the drug that caused the bad reaction (as it wasn't what Doomwatch initially#Thought)? Or did i miss that? Where did the irresponsible scientist of the week get to when he ran off? Still it's very topical and maurice#Roëves wears a see thru shirt that has to be seen to be believed. Quist is a bit of a bastard here and there are hints that with Doomwatch#Sometimes the ends will justify the means...a worrying thought considering that's exactly the sort of thing they're in place to critique