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R3 was a 50-minute British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1964 and 1965. Its full title was Ministry of Research Centre No. 3. The series starred John Robinson as Sir Michael Gerrard, Jeremy Young as Wilson, David Blake Kelly as Captain Rogers, and was set in a scientific research facility at the Ministry of Research. R3 is also notable for providing early TV exposure for a young Oliver Reed, cast as one of the scientists on the ministry staff, Dr. Richard Franklin.

R3
Genre	Drama
Created by	N. J. Crisp
Starring	John Robinson
Theme music composer	Ken Thorne
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	26 (all missing)
Production
Producers	Andrew Osborn John Robins
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	20 November 1964 (1964-11-20) – 28 September 1965 (1965-09-28)

In "Experiment in Death" (shown Tuesday 27 July 1965 on BBC1), written by N J Crisp, undersea exploration becomes an experiment in survival in a bathysphere. That show starred Edward Judd as Peters, Brigit Forsyth as a secretary, Donald Hoath as Turner and Stephen John as a meteorologist. It was produced by John Robins and directed by Paul Bernard.

No episodes of this series are thought to have survived the BBC's purging of the archives between the 1960s and 70s. However, a trailer from one edition was supposedly recovered from a tape in 2004, but has not been shown publicly.[1]

Cast

• Sir Michael Gerrard – John Robinson
• Miss Brooks – Brenda Saunders
• Philip Boult – Michael Hawkins
• Tom Collis – Derek Benfield
• Dr Richard Franklin – Oliver Reed
• Dr George Fratton – Moultrie Kelsall
• Dr Mary Howard – Elizabeth Sellars
• Betty Mason – Janet Kelly
• Pomeroy – Edwin Richfield
• Porter – Maxwell Foster
• Dr Jack Morton – Simon Lack
• Dr Peter Travers – Richard Wordsworth

References

External links

• R3 at IMDb

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