Ian Taylor

Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.

Jim Hart, a young man who is down on his luck is approached by a lawyer, Steve Hall. Jim was adopted at birth and Hall reveals that he stands to gain an inheritance from his real father, wealthy anthropologist and explorer Alexander Moss. What Jim doesn't know is that 25 years ago, Moss attacked a tribe of vampires, the Drell Vorgora, in the Andes in order to steal a rare necklace. The tribe believes that guilt in hereditary, so when the vampires discover that Moss (who they have already killed) has a child, they come to hunt him down.

Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.