This five-part British drama series starred Nigel Terry as John Fairling, a special investigator for the Home Office. It was Fairling's task to track down a renegade research psychologist who harbored a yen for all things electronic. The villain intended to infect all communications in the U.K. with a vicious computer virus -- but not if Fairling was able to de-bug the bugger. An early example of the TV techno-thriller genre, Wipe Out first aired in 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi