Cult sci-fi dramas to revel in all over again

A real treasure trove of cult sciencefiction drama. There’s Patrick McGoohan’s brilliant and influential 1967 series The Prisoner, in which a secret agent resigns, is abducted and wakes up in The Village, a mysterious and surreal detention camp. Both seasons of the 1970s show Space: 1999 – the most expensive series made for British TV at the time – in which the Moon is knocked from its orbit and sent hurtling into space, along with the pioneering humans living on it. The Wall Street Journal said it was ‘like Star Trek shot full of methedrine’. There are also all the episodes of Sapphire & Steel with Joanna Lumley and David McCallum (left), in which ‘detectives from another dimension’ keep an eye on the flow of time, plus Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, UFO and Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased). BritBox, from Thursday