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The Big Pull

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This is the title of a short BBC serial (maybe 6 episodes) that predates the first episode of Doctor Who. This puts it at 1962 or earlier.

I think it no longer exists, but it was a SF series about a radio telescope where, mysteriously, when a certain signal was received any people found in pairs in the control room were either rendered insane or disappeared. If there were three, nothing happened. Needless to say, the third one had nipped out to make coffee when the signal came....

I was probably ten years old at the time I saw it and it scared the socks off me.....I often wonder how it would look now, although it is rarely mentioned in histories of TV SF, so any real information is thin on the ground.

I can't fairly rate it as my memories of it are fragmentary.
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