First watched : 26 September 1975
The BBC got on board the superhero bandwagon by buying this short series very loosely based on the HG Wells novel.
David McCallum played Daniel Westin a molecular scientist who is working for a US corporation on invisibility. In the pilot episode, after testing the serum on himself , he found that the military were funding the project and in the course of sabotaging his work, renders the process irreversible so has to wear a David McCallum mask and gloves to be visible. The actual series was more light hearted and Westin and his wife were quite happy to work as government agents.
The show was largely based on camera trickery, cars driving themselves , receivers lifting themselves off phones, levitating objects and so on. Though popular here it bombed in the States and excluding the pilot only a dozen episodes were made. I thought it was OK.
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