The idea of everyone being watched by cameras, as that opening episode had it, seemed striking... it felt very adult and relevant.
The series had been pitched by Terry Nation, who created Doctor Who's Daleks. He saw it as The Dirty Dozen in Space, but that idea disappeared early on.
Star Wars had come out in the UK just before our first episode aired. One of the show's other directors, Pennant Roberts, went to see it. The next morning, I found him in his office close to tears.
I thought a highly advanced vessel should be operated via thought alone, whereas the set we ended up with had joysticks and controls.
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