The Plane Makers – Volume 2 DVD – Robert Urquhart, Reginald Marsh

Second volume of episodes from the 1960s drama, the prequel to ATV’s successful series, ‘The Power Game’. The show looks at life inside the boardroom and executive corridors of the Scott Furlong Airplane Development Company. The Managing Director of the company is John Wilder (Patrick Wymark), a man who is prepared to do anything to succeed – including putting profit ahead of his passengers’ safety…

The prequel to ATV’s famous boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of the Scott Furlong airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthless John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). This release contains fifteen classic episodes, originally shown as part of series two.

Having suffered a setback to his ambitions in failing to become Chairman, Wilder takes a wild gamble on the future of Scott Furlong, pushing through a plan to build twelve more Sovereign aircraft before the money has been recovered on the initial order. The scheme is vehemently opposed by new Chairman Sir Gordon Revidge – and it is Revidge’s merchant bank that will have to finance the project. As uncertainty and unrest sweep through the factory, a game of bluff and counter-bluff takes place in the boardroom…