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The Scientific Horror of ‘The Stone Tape’

Alan Corley
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9 min readMar 9, 2025

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Written by Alan Corley

Usually writing about old movies — BA English & Drama — MPhil Film Studies

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Kneale's name on a script always promised an intelligent and fascinating story. He was, and is, still one of the best writers of his genre on TV.

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I had to skim read this somewhat as I wanted to avoid spoilers. At any rate, I've never seen The Stone Tape, though I've heard of it, and always wanted to give it a whirl. I'll have to track it down. :)

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I remember the original broadcast. A very good piece of television, and a great story. Thank you for unearthing it again

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