1990 is a British then-futuristic political drama television series produced by the BBC and shown in 1977 and 1978. The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control , a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities. Exposition in this... series was mainly performed by facts occasionally dropped into dialogue requiring the viewer to piece together the basic scenario. This state of affairs was precipitated by an irrecoverable national bankruptcy in the early 1980s, triggering a de facto state of emergency, cancelling the General Election and causing the economy to drastically contract forcing stringent rationing of housing, goods and services.
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