At Paradise Falls, a remote Mojave Desert petrol station and cafe, a husband, wife and daughter get stuck with car trouble – but that’s just the start of their woes. The diner’s waitress is heavily pregnant and can’t resist keeping on having a ‘crafty smoke’. Another stranger appears, just as the TV goes on the blink and ominous clouds amass on the horizon. Little do the staff and customers know that this is Archangel Michael, who has defected to the side of good, mainly as he’s not keen on being God’s spearhead for a coming Biblical apocalypse. His mission is not to save the cheerleader, but to save the waitress to save the world!

British actor Paul Bettany (“Master and Commander”, “Wimbledon”, and the voice of Jarvis in the “Iron Man” franchise) plays Michael, who is joined in his quest by the likes of Dennis Quaid (“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”, “The Day After Tomorrow”), Lucas Black (American Gothic), Kate Walsh (Addison in Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice), and Tyrese Gibson (“Transformers”).

Gerald Harper had taken TV by storm in Adam Adamant Lives! – but his next venture would bring to life the character he is most associated with: James Hadleigh. The character begins by taking over as proprietor of the ‘Westdale Gazette’, a Yorkshire newspaper owned by his father. Created by Robert Barr and originally screened in 1968, Gazette introduced us to the charming, privileged but conscientious protagonist and his mixed fortunes that would continue to be chronicled in the sequel show Hadleigh. That series became one of Yorkshire Television’s most popular and long-running series, airing between 1969 and 1976.

Right from the first episode, Hadleigh finds that the day-to-day running of the newspaper throws up thorny issues of public allegiances, the right to privacy, and potentially libellous reporting. Plots cover the controversy surrounding hunting, police cover stories, and many delicate dilemmas for Hadleigh and his reporting team to traverse through.