The Dark Side of the Sun (TV serial)
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This article is about the BBC television serial. For the Terry Pratchett novel, see The Dark Side of the Sun.
The Dark Side of the Sun is a television serial written by Michael J. Bird and produced by the BBC in 1983.
The serial was the last in an unofficial quartet of serials written by Bird and set in the Mediterranean. The previous three were The Lotus Eaters, Who Pays the Ferryman? and The Aphrodite Inheritance.
The Dark Side of the Sun took place on the Greek island of Rhodes. The story has a distinctly supernatural air, with themes of mind control and a secret society holding clandestine meetings on the island.
The serial starred Peter Egan, Patrick Mower, Emily Richard, Betty Arvaniti and Michael Sheard.