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Out of the Unknown: Sucker Bait (1.7, BBC, 1965)

"What are you thinking about?"

"That I might die. I've never been conscious of my own death before. Now I am. And I'm thinking, if I do die, there's so many things... so many things in the universe that I'll never learn. Never know."

#Out of the Unknown #Sucker bait #isaac asimov #Single play #Meade Roberts #Naomi Capon #Clive Endersby #John Meillon #Bill Nagy #David Knight #Burt Kwouk #Roger Croucher #Tenniel Evans #David Sumner #Peter Diamond #John McArdle #Keith Peacock #Tim Condren #Billy Dean #Adrian Drotsky #Fred Haggerty #We're back in space! And back in the hands of one of the grand old men of Sci fi Mr Isaac Asimov. As with the previous Asimov story there's #A theme here on the dangers of over specialised fields within academia: all the scientists on an exploratory mission are too honed in on #Their own narrow field to work out why a previous colony died out. All except young mnemonic agent Mark; a human computer who remembers #Everything and thus has vast stores of knowledge to draw upon. The central mystery and solution are actually p straight forward; the #Problem is that they're buried under layers and layers of awkward exposition and meaningless techno babble. This is the most dialogue heavy #Play yet and it's to the detriment of p much everything else unfortunately. Much too wordy and inactive and full of ponderous conversations #About technology and physics. Too much science fact not enough science fiction. Endersby is brittle and difficult as Mark but then that's #Kind of the point. A more modern adaptation would probably play on some idea of comparing the mnemonic to a developmental disorder (whether #That could be done tactfully idk). Nice to see old fave Tenniel Evans pop up as a grumpy science type. Not the strongest ep tbh

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