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1.   Out of Control 24-Sep-74
2.   Ram Pandit 01-Oct-74
3.   RAV 1 08-Oct-74
4.   The Gas-gun 15-Oct-74
5.   In The Hut 22-Oct-74
6.   The Secret 05-Nov-74
7.   To The Mill! 12-Nov-74
8.   The Signal 19-Nov-74
9.   Escape 26-Nov-74
10.   Fire The Rockets! 03-Dec-74

NO SPECIFIC STORY DETAILS ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE (but see below). IF YOU KNOW ANY, PLEASE MAIL ME.

Written by Richard Carpenter, producer Sue Weeks.
Introduced by Richard Carpenter.
Starring Tina Heath, Anne Ridler, Jane Carr, Miles Anderson, Charles Collingwood, Derek Griffiths, Nigel Rathbone, Renu Setna, Michael Sheard, Kenneth Watson, and Bill Gavin.

Cloud Burst aired during the following terms. See the Air Dates page for exact details.
      Autumn 1974
      Autumn 1975
      Autumn 1976
      Autumn 1977

Story: Dave Matthews remembers quite a lot about the Cloud Burst story:
From what I remember it revolved around two Indian (or Asian?) twins who were scientists. Renu Setna played one of the twins, Ram Pandit. He planned to flood the Fens using some sort of weapon (I think it looked like a huge silver-coloured canon) pointed toward the sky (presumably where Kate Bush got her inspiration from). [see Ian Trembirth's Cloud Burst page for details of this reference]

His twin brother, Seth(?) Pandit, tried to stop him. I can't recall the motivation behind Ram's actions, whether they were for misguided environmental reasons or he was simply holding the country to ransom. Anyway the whole plan was eventually foiled by a kid with a remote-controlled plane who crashed it into the canon about three seconds before it was about to fire. To be honest given the canon was a pretty hefty piece of kit, a little plane would hardly scratch it, never mind wipe it out! Even as an eight-year-old, it didn't fool me!

Many thanks to Greg Taylor for pointing out that the title of this story is officially two words, not one as I had been listing it.

If you have any information, opinions or recollections to add to this page, please mail me, ben@lookandread.fsnet.co.uk


This information is based almost entirely on what was published in the Radio Times. It is not necessarily complete or reliable, as space constraints or misprints may have led to inaccuracy.