Mad and bad : 60 years of science on TV.

Documentary looking at how science has been portrayed on TV over the last 60 years, including real science to science fiction. Key figures from the realms of science and broadcasting give their opinions throughout. Includes a great diversity of archival footage. Topics of interest include the dramatic use of props, even in the most sobre of the older scientific programmes; the changing subjects considered acceptable to viewers, vivisection for example; the development of science fiction television and the varying representations of scientists themselves. In the case of the latter, many of the top science TV presenters talk about their careers and look back on the sorts of programmes that influenced them when they were growing up.