Life Story (Original title)The Race for the Double Helix (Alternative title)Lifestory - The Double Helix (Alternative title)The Double Helix (Alternative title)
Dates: 1987 (Copyright), 27 April 1987 (Television)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Mick Jackson
Production company billing: ©1987. BBC [end] a BBC-tv production in association with the Arts and Entertainment Network 1st title card: 'a Horizon special'
Synopsis: Dramatisation of the race at the University of Cambridge in 1951 for the discovery of DNA.Synopsis: A dramatisation of the story of the race to the double helix of DNA between two scientists at Cambridge, Jim Watson and Francis Crick.
Subject: DNA
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TV Transmissions
Date: 27 April 1987Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:30-22:20Runtime: 106 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Dates: 1987 (Copyright), 27 April 1987 (Television)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Mick Jackson
Production company billing: ©1987. BBC [end] a BBC-tv production in association with the Arts and Entertainment Network 1st title card: 'a Horizon special'
Synopsis: Dramatisation of the race at the University of Cambridge in 1951 for the discovery of DNA.Synopsis: A dramatisation of the story of the race to the double helix of DNA between two scientists at Cambridge, Jim Watson and Francis Crick.
Subject: DNA
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 27 April 1987Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:30-22:20Runtime: 106 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
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[Subject of Film]: Francis Crick, [Subject of Film]: James Watson, ©: BBC, a BBC-tv production: BBC TV, In association with: Arts and Entertainment Network, Produced by: Mick Jackson, Horizon [Series] Editor: Robin Brightwell, Production Associate: Sarah Carr, Unit Manager: Rosemary Gillespie, Assistant Floor Manager: Norman Miles, Jeff Golding, Production Manager: Maureen Moore, Location Manager: Paul Hughes-smith, Assistant Producer: Jane Callander, Production Assistant: Lucille Mclaughlin, Production Assistant: Anna Cafferky, [Written] By: William Nicholson, Photography: Andrew Dunn, Lighting Gaffer: Brian Beaumont, Visual Effects Designer: Mat Irvine, Graphic Designer: Margaret Perry, Film Editor: Jim Latham, Designer: John Bone, Molecular Models Built by: Claudio Villa, Properties Buyer: David Privett, Costume Designer: Charlotte Holdich, Costume Designer: Gilly Martin, Make-up Designer: Jan Nethercott, Original Music Composed by: Peter Howell, Original Music [Created by]: BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Film Recordist: Lyndon Bird, Dubbing Mixer: John Hale, Dubbing Editor: Anthony Ward, Catherine Arend, Horizon wishes to thank: Francis Crick, Horizon wishes to thank: Maurice Wilkins, Horizon wishes to thank: Raymond Gosling, Aaron Klug
Cast
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Tim Pigott-Smith (Francis Crick), Jeff Goldblum (Jim Watson), Alan Howard (Maurice Wilkins), Juliet Stevenson (Rosalind Franklin), Betsy Brantley (Elizabeth Watson), John Moreno (Vittorio Luzzati), Daniel André Pageon (first colleague), Yves Aubert (second colleague), Anthony Benson (J.T. Randall), Clive Panto (Max Perutz), Rupert Massey (John Kendrew), Geoffrey Chater (Sir Lawrence Bragg), Nicholas Fry (Raymond Gosling), Tom McCabe (Bill Seeds), Petronella Ford (Odile Crick), Ian Harvey (Bruce Fraser), Vass Anderson (Alex Stokes), Jill Johnson (Freda Ticehurst), Rachael Weaver (first French girl), Katherine Kath (Pop Prior), Gaby Lister (second French girl), David Allister (John Griffith), Anna Skye (girl at party), Lyndon Brook (Erwin Chargaff), Vincent Marzello (Peter Pauling), Ray Charleson (Jerry Donohue)