''One of the best and most influential pieces of British television drama ever made.

''One of the best and most influential pieces of British television drama ever made.

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness is a British television drama serial, produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six fifty-five-minute episodes in late 1985.

A mixture of crime drama, scifi and political thriller, it revolves around the efforts of policeman Ronald Craven (played by Bob Peck) to unravel the truth behind the murder of his daughter Emma (played by Joanne Whalley). Craven's investigations soon lead him into a murky world of government and corporate cover-ups and nuclear espionage, pitting him against dark forces that threaten the future of life on Earth.

Writer Troy Kennedy Martin was greatly influenced by the political climate of the time, dominated by the Thatcher government, and the aura of secrecy surrounding the nuclear industry – and by the implications of the Gaia hypothesis of environmentalist


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness


IMBD link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090424/


Daily Motion link chapter one, on line

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3iyiqz

guitar by clapton in the soundtrack

also music by Willie Nelson and others