TV series
The One Game
1988 · 1 season
A slow, unsettling puzzle that blurs reality and game, keeping you tense and off-balance as buried history resurfaces.
- Created by
- Mike Vardy
- Genres
- Sci-fi & fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Stephen Dillane, Patrick Malahide, Pippa Haywood
- Tagline
- It's a game that appears far too real.
- Overview
- Nick Thorne, a successful businessman whose company markets games, is pulled by his former partner Magnus into a game which appears far too real... The One Game is a four-part 1988 British television drama serial, produced by Central Independent Television and broadcast on ITV from 4 June to 25 June 1988. Set and filmed in Birmingham, it starred Patrick Malahide, Stephen Dillane, Pippa Haywood and Kate McKenzie, and was written by John Brown from a concept by Tony Benet.
- How it feels
- Tense, eerie, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Obsession, betrayal, identity, power
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Mike Vardy
- Genres
- Sci-fi & fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Stephen Dillane, Patrick Malahide, Pippa Haywood
