It is the mid-1980s. The economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been ensconced in a research lab of a provincial university working on a cure for the common cold. He is very near success. Can he avoid becoming yet another victim of the eternal cutbacks?
DIRECTOR
CAST
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Paul Daneman
Professor Frank Merrick
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Anne Stallybrass
Barbara
Barrie Cookson
Layborne
Milton Johns
Cullin