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ITC Story Synopses/ Year 2 Story Synopses

The story synopses documents were prepared by ITC for US and UK television stations, which in turn would send copies to newspapers and magazines for TV listings, reviews and features. There were credits and story summaries for all the episodes, but there were several errors.

• See full story summaries
• The year 1 synopses is included as a PDF on disc 7 of the Network Blu-ray (2010)
• The year 2 synopses is included as a PDF on disc 6 of the Network Blu-ray (2015)

Story Synopses (year 1)

The episodes are in ITC's recommended order (there were limited numbers of prints for TV stations to use, so stations could not follow this in practice). Some of the stronger late episodes like The Infernal Machine, Dragon's Domain got bumped up to early in the run; Black Sun gets pushed to last.

Only one episode is mistitled: Black Sun becomes "The Black Sun".

Series Two Story Synopses

This document contains an additional "list of writers" in the front pages.

The episode order is again the ITC recommended order, which is close to the production order (and the continuity order implied by Helena's "days since leaving Earth orbit"). A few episodes swap places, with Journey To Where moving earlier, The Lambda Factor also gets bumped a few places earlier, and the episodes filmed simultaneously also get moved up and down.

The main mistake, which was reproduced in many publications, was renaming the episode Dorzak as "Dorzac" (with a "c"). Catacombs Of The Moon gains a "The", while The A B Chrysalis gains a dash between the "A B".

Among the episode errors are changing Patrick Mower's character name to "Dave O'Reilly" (instead of Dave Reilly)