Edited sentence: 1990 also starred Edward Woodward, Barbara Kellerman, Lisa Harrow, Tony Doyle and Clive Swift.Lang is proberably most famous for his role as the wicked Herbert Skardon the head - "Controller" of the Department of Public Control in the two series of eight episodes each of 1990 were produced between 1977 and 1978 and shown on BBC 2 in Great Britainin the same years.The series is set in a dystopian future (dubbed "Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six" by its creator Wilfred Greatorex) where Britain is under the grip of the Department of Public Control, a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties