Bird of Prey (TV serial)

Bird of Prey is a British techno-thriller television serial written by Ron Hutchinson and produced by Michael Wearing and Bernard Krichefski for the BBC in 1982. It was directed by Michael Rolfe. The second series was co-written with Lee Montague.

This article is about the 1982 British TV serial. For the 2002 American TV series, see Birds of Prey (TV series). For other uses, see Bird of prey (disambiguation).

Bird of Prey
Freeze-frame from the computer block-graphic style animated title sequence
GenreDrama
Created byRon Hutchinson
StarringRichard Griffiths
Carole Nimmons
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes8
Production
ProducerMichael Wearing
Production companyBBC
Release
Original networkBBC1
Original release22 April 1982 (1982-04-22) –
27 September 1984 (1984-09-27)

The series starred Richard Griffiths and Carole Nimmons as Henry and Anne Jay: Henry is a humble civil servant who finds that he and his wife are drawn into a conspiracy involving the mysterious Le Pouvoir organisation. A sequel, Bird of Prey 2 followed in 1984.

Cast

Filming locations

Bird of Prey made heavy use of outdoor locations around the Docklands and City Of London while Bird of Prey 2 included the newly built Blackfriars in London and Silbury Boulevard in Milton Keynes.

Bird of Prey and Bird of Prey 2 were released together on DVD x 2, BBC 2 Entertain, CCTV30316 (Region 2 + 4 colour PAL, UK) in 2006.

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