Breaking Point: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Breaking Point - A five-part serial by master thriller writer Victor Canning: Most people have heard the rumours of inventions suppressed by big business for financial reasons: the everlasting electric light-bulb, wear-proof rubber, and so on. Victor Canning, that old master of the thriller form, has taken just such a notion as the starting point for his new serial.

Professor Max Stevens is a metallurgist, brilliant but erratic, who has made a highly important breakthrough. He has discovered a form of steel which is immune to metal fatigue, and among its implications are cars which could endure for generations and bicycles which might easily last forever. Suddenly the principle of "built-in obsolescence" which keeps much of the industry solvent seems itself to be outdated; so Martin Kennedy of Group S, Internal Security, is ordered to contact Stevens in order that his discovery can be saved for the nation and from the international interests who would seek to stifle it.

Series details

• Title: Breaking Point
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Premiere date: 1966-10-22
• Final broadcast date listed: 1966-11-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 26 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 36360
• IMDb ID: tt0273130

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1966-10-22; final listed air date 1966-11-19; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from Breaking Point on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.