THE OFFSHORE ISLAND

(1959)

Eight years after a nuclear war has reduced much of Europe to a wasteland, Rachel Verney and her two teenage children, live in isolated tranquility in a valley which - due to a freak topographical effect - has escaped the ravages of fallout and war. Their peace is disturbed by the arrival of a patrol of American soldiers, who tell them that the war is still going on and they have come to transport the family to a relocation camp in the United States. It turns out, however, that they are considered 'Contaminated Persons,' they will be sterilized to prevent them having mutated offspring, after their land has been destroyed with a small tactical nuclear device.

THE OFFSHORE ISLAND
BBC
90 minute telemovie

TRANSMISSION DATE
14 April 1959

CAST

Rachel Verney	. . . . . . . . .	Ann Todd
James Verney	. . . . . . . . .	Tim Seely
Mary Verney	. . . . . . . . .	Diane Clare
Captain Charles	. . . . . . . . .	Phil Brown
Martin	. . . . . . . . .	Robert Brown
Smithson	. . . . . . . . .	Dan Jackson

THE OFFSHORE ISLAND "LINKS"

British Telefantasy

Memorable TV

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