Stark (novel) on this novel, which was subsequently made as "Stark", a television miniseries. It was a joint production by the BBC and the ABC (the British and Australian national broadcasters). Ben Elton played the lead role, with Colin Friels as Sly and Jacqueline McKenzie as Rachel. There were some differences between the novel and the miniseries; some characters were renamed, and the ending was different. Elton's subsequent two novels, "Gridlock" and "This Other Eden", also deal with environmental themes and are set in a dystopian future. "Alternative 3", a 1977 British television hoax masquerading as a documentary, shared some themes with
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) Described as "the first black nationalist novel", "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is also regarded as having inspired the "Blaxploitation" genre of films in the 1970s. It was announced in August 2018 that Lee Daniels Entertainment had secured an option on "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" to develop it as the basis of a series with Fox 21 Television Studios. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer, and of the CIA's history