Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature" ...?

A for Andromeda (1961)
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Esmond Knight
Professor Ernest Reinhart (7 episodes)
PK
Patricia Kneale
Judy Adamson (7 episodes)

Peter Halliday
John Fleming (7 episodes)
NJ
Noel Johnson
J.M. Osborne (7 episodes)

Julie Christie
Andromeda (3 episodes)Christine Jones (3 episodes)

Donald Stewart
General Vandenberg (5 episodes)

Geoffrey Lewis
Doctor Geers (5 episodes)

John Hollis
Kaufman (4 episodes)

Mary Morris
Professor Madeleine Dawnay (4 episodes)