The Andromeda Breakthrough
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Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV series A for Andromeda again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
John Fleming, the hero of the first series, played by Peter Halliday, discovers that as a result of the espionage carried out by various of the staff employed at the Scottish site of the construction of the first computer, the international cartel organisation Intel has constructed in Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country, a duplicate of the machine he designed. He brings the artificially constructed human André (this time played by Susan Hampshire as Julie Christie was unavailable) to Azaran so that she can interact with this second machine, and after many dangers find both the reason for the message having been sent and the means to bring the machine under human control.
Souvenir Press published a book of the same name in 1964. Corgi issued a paperback edition in 1966. The complete serial survives in the BBC archives and was released, alongside the surviving material from A for Andromeda and various extra features, as part of The Andromeda Anthology DVD set in 2006.
