Cloud Burst is a ten-part story within the Look and Read series of BBC Television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills.^[1] The first episode of Cloud Burst was first broadcast on 24 September 1974; the last (of ten) episodes was first broadcast on 3 December 1974.

Plot

Whilst playing with a toy plane, Jenny Barber and her brother, Tim, meet a scientist, Ram Pandit, who is working on a secret invention. When Ram is kidnapped apparently by the mysterious Man on a Motor Bike who is working for rivals trying to get information on his work, it is up to the children to find them and stop his invention from falling into the wrong hands.

Cast

• Richard Carpenter as Presenter
• Jane Carr as Singer
• Tina Heath as Jenny Barber
• Anne Ridler as Mrs Green
• Charles Collingwood as Wordy
• Gerald Down -
• Derek Griffiths as Singer
• Nigel Rathbone as Tim Barber
• Kenneth Watson as Mr Barber
• Miles Anderson as Dick Turner
• Renu Setna as Ram Pandit
• Michael Sheard as Number Two
• Bill Gavin as Sir Robert Blain

Episodes

1. "Out of Control"
2. "Ram Pandit"
3. "RAV 1"
4. "The Gas Gun"
5. "In the Hut"
6. "The Secret"
7. "To the Mill"
8. "The Signal"
9. "Escape"
10. "Fire the Rockets"