The Omega Factor

Director: Paddy Russell
Writing Credits: Jack Gerson
Guest Cast: Denis Agnew, Colin Douglas, Raymond Ross & Joanna Tope

Journalist Tom Crane travels to Edinburgh in the search of the elusive Edward Drexil, a powerful master of the occult. Drexil provides a terrifying demonstration of his powers by way of a warning to Tom to leave Edinburgh. The Journalist does not heed this warning and pays dearly for his unwillingness to flee. It also turns out that Tom possesses psychic powers of his own, which have not gone unnoticed by a highly-secret government organisation called Department 7.

Director: Norman Stewart
Writing Credits: Eric Macdonald
Guest Cast: David Bannerman, Martin Cochrane, Jake D'Arcy, Alec Heggie, Sheila Latimer, Mary Ann Reid, Billy Riddoch, Jay Smith, Joanna Tope, Paul Young & Sheila Duffy

Roy Martindale has some tests for Tom Crane, the new boy at Department 7. They prove that Tom is just what they have been looking for as he is a capable psychic. The team investigate the case of a man who apparently had become possessed, and had broken his workmate's back in a notorious old house where Edward Drexil had once lived. How will the gifted 'sensitive' fare in the house of evil is anyone's guess.

Director: Ken Grieve
Writing Credits: Nick McCarty
Guest Cast: Tim Barlow, Paul Barnard, Jim Boyce, Monica Brady, John Butterfly, Robert Carr, John Casey, Daniel Foley, Christopher Frederick, Tony Haygarth, James Kennedy, Ian Lambton, Ron Paterson & Craig Ross

Several villagers have reported strange noises, Pictish warriors dancing around the neighbouring hillsides and dogs going mad. Not being deterred by the bizarre nature of the report, Tom Crane goes off to investigate. After interviewing a few of the villagers Tom returns to Edinburgh to find his brother Michael in hospital, raving mad, even though he was supposedly on a holiday in Austria. The military are somehow involved, using an experimental high frequency device for purposes of which are unknown.

Director: Gerald Blake
Writing Credits: Sean Hignett
Guest Cast: Bruce Boa, Keith Bratt, Bill Denistoun, Charles Jamieson, Ray Jeffries, David Peate & Joanna Tope

On a journey from Scotland to Paris, Anne Reynold is abducted near Dunbar and taken to an installation where Edward Drexil is running tests on brainwashing. Anne is told that she suffered concussion due to a fall and had in fact made the journey to the Centre of Hypnosis in Paris, which was her intended destination. Department 7 finds out something has happened to Anne, so Tom Crane goes to find out exactly what.

Director: Eric Davidson
Writing Credits: Anthony Read
Guest Cast: Desi Angus, Jim Gibb, Maggie James, Ian Lambton, Ian Neville, Simon Tait & Jimmy Yuill

Director: Fiona Cumming
Writing Credits: Tom Wright
Guest Cast: Terry Forestal, Max Harris, Martin Heller & Maureen Morris

Director: Norman Stewart
Writing Credits: Eric Macdonald
Guest Cast: Dave Anderson, Victor Carin, Jean Gilpin, Sheila Latimer, Iain Lauchlan, Michael MacKenzie, Alec Monteath, Jeff Norton, Mary Riggans, Robert Trotter & William Wilde

Director: Peter Grimwade
Writing Credits: Anthony Read
Guest Cast: Loftus Burton, Jill Fenner, Charles Lloyd Pack & Gary Raymond

Director: Kenny McBain
Writing Credits: Sean Hignett
Guest Cast: Derek Anders, Craig Connor, James Fleet, Philip Locke & Joanna Tope

Director: George Gallaccio
Writing Credits: Jack Gerson
Guest Cast: Raymond Boyd, John Gabriel, Frederick Jaeger, Willie Joss, Paul Kermack, Edith MacArthur & John Young

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