Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs an electrical repair shop in the small town of Bingleton.
One day his store is visited by Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee), who is from the planet
Mercury and in need of Des' help.
Kinvig's friend Jim Piper (Colin Jeavons) is a lifelong UFO watcher and is consumed by
jealousy when he discovers that Kinvig has actually become involved with aliens.
The audience are left to decide if the dream sequences are genuinely alien contact or
simply a figment of Kinvig's imagination.
The show was produced by LWT, and only ran for one series of seven episodes.
It was written by Nigel Kneale (more famous for Quatermass); directed and produced by Les
Chatfield; with original music by Nigel Hess.




Original filenames unknown




No subtitles included




Screenshots five episodes only

Episode 01 , Episode 02 , Episode 03 ,
Episode 04 , Episode 05 .




Kinvig 1981



Kinvig 1981

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