Concept and creative process
Endtitles for the science-fiction drama, ‘Andover and the Android’ which was about a reclusive robotics expert, Roger Andover, who created a robot wife for himself so that he might marry and inherit a fortune. The play was first broadcast on BBC Two in November 1965, as one of the 12 plays in the science-fiction anthology series, ‘Out of the Unknown’. It was repeated on BBC1 as a one-off play in December 1965, a month after its first transmission. Charles McGhie, who had designed the original generic title sequence for ‘Out of the Unknown’ was tasked with designing titles for ‘Andover and the Android’ for its second stand-alone broadcast. He explored the robotics theme through abstract photographic images, suggestive of the mechanical and electrical processes involved in the creation of an android. He then related these textural photographs to a close-up portrait of Andover’s android with her image peering out at the viewer through them.