Matthew Roberton was born in 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969), BBC Play of the Month (1965) and UFO (1970).
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.