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depressing or morbid’ while another one in ten believed that such a programme ‘might itself produce mental illness’.23 These fears about the potential impact of such a programme point to a shared belief amongst medical and lay groups regarding the capacity of television to shape opinion: the psychiatrist William Sargant, for example, expressed his belief in ‘the tremendous power of television for good or evil in matters of medicine’.24 They echoed concerns surrounding the release of The Snakepit in British cinemas seven years earlier, when several national newspapers