Pulse of Cinema
1990 (1977-1978) series poster
Drama

1990

1977-1978 2 seasons 16 episodes
36 Pulse
7.4 IMDb
One weekend 15 hours
Loading community rating
Your rating

Plot

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

Credits

Created by: Wilfred Greatorex

Cast: Edward Woodward, Robert Lang, Tony Doyle, Paul Hardwick, John Savident, Lisa Harrow

How the Pulse Score works

For series, Pulse starts from the IMDb rating shrunk by vote count, then applies FORMAT CALIBRATION. Series score systematically higher than films on IMDb, so using the raw number would unfairly push a show like 1990 to the top of a film catalogue. Calibration maps the series distribution onto the film one; meaning 36 is COMPARABLE to a film with the same Pulse.

One more difference from films: Letterboxd does not track series, so series Pulse derives from a single source (IMDb) rather than two.

How did this series move you?