In excellent four part scifi tinged thriller serial Chimera a journalist finds himself in a nightmare world when he investigates the covering up of a massacre at a secret research clinic and it’s apparent link with a maniac who seems to be loose in the wilds of Cumbria.
cast
JOHN LYNCH as Peter Carson
KENNETH CRANHAM as Hennessy
CHRISTINE KAVANAGH as Alison Wells
EMER GILLESPIE as Nurse Tracy Pickford
GEORGE COSTIGAN as Schaffer
DOUGGIE MANN as Chad
SEBASTIAN SHAW as Dr Liawski
PETER ARMITAGE as Sgt Crichton
DAVID NEILSON as Mr Gaskell
PIP TORRENS as Windeler
GARY MAVERS as Forester
GILLIAN BARGE as Dr Horsley
DAVID CALDER as Dr Jenner
crew details
Writer: Stephen Gallagher
Music: Nigel Hess
Producer: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Director: Nick Gilliot
production details
Country: UK
Network and Production Companies: ITV – Anglia – Zenith
Duration: 4×50 minute episodes
Aired From: 7 – 28 July 1991
