The Midwich Cuckoos

Running Time: 343

Genre: Television, Sci-Fi

Certificate: 15

Language: English

All seven episodes of the sci-fi drama based on the novel by John Wyndham. A mysterious blackout affects the town of Midwich and everyone inside the zone passes out without warning. When they wake, every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant. As child psychologist Susannah Zellaby (Keeley Hawes) tries to help those affected and DCI Paul Haynes (Max Beesley) seeks to maintain order, they soon begin to realise that a terrifying force is at work and the children must be stopped. The episodes are: 'Bad Things', 'In This Together', 'The Hive', 'Hide and Seek', 'Why Are You Lying?', 'Not an Ice Cream' and 'Departure'.