Doomwatch Logo 'The Iron Doctor'
by Brian Hayles
Doomwatch Cast

The intensive care unit at Parkway hospital is using a computer to monitor the patients, but the computer inexplicably allows a patient to die. Quist is warned by the hospital’s Doctor Carson that the computer is a model 20/90 that has been modified by Doctor Whittaker, and that it is able to think for itself, making decisions based upon its observations. The only problem is the computer is deliberately killing the patients that it decides are beyond reasonable help…


John Paul (Doctor Spencer Quist), Simon Oates (Doctor John Ridge), John Nolan (Geoff Hardcastle), Jean Trend (Doctor Fay Chantry), Joby Blanshard (Colin Bradley), Vivian Sherrard (Barbara Mason), James Maxwell (Doctor Whittaker), Barry Foster (Doctor Carson), Harold Bennett (George), Frederick Schiller (Mr. Faber), Gloria Connell (Duty Nurse), Keith Grenville (Doctor Godfrey), Amanda Walker (Sister Trewin), Frank Littlewood (Mr. Kemp), Raymond Young (Mr. Tearson), Jeanie James (Second Nurse), Paul Nemeer (Doctor), Michael Ely, Clive Rogers, Joyce Freeman (Visitors)

Directed by Joan-Kemp Welch
Produced by Terence Dudley


TX:
25th January, 1971 @ 9.20pm - 10.10pm

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Spencer Quist, Doctor John Ridge, Colin Bradley, Geoff Hardcastle, Barbara Mason and Fay Chantry

*This episode exists as a black and white film telerecording, and colour NTSC videotape