Karen Meagher as Ruth Beckett

Reece Dinsdale as Jimmy Kemp

David Brierly as Mr. Kemp

Rita May as Mrs. Kemp

Nicholas Lane as Michael Kemp

Jane Hazlegrove as Alison Kemp

Henry Moxon as Mr Beckett

June Broughton as Mrs Beckett

Sylvia Stoker as Granny Beckett

Harry Beety as Clive Sutton

Ruth Holden as Marjorie Sutton

Ashley Barker as Bob

Michael O'Hagan as Chief Supt. Hirst

Phil Rose as Medical Officer

Steve Halliwell as Information Officer

Brian Grellis as Accommodation Officer

Peter Faulkner as Transport Officer

Anthony Collin as Food Officer

Michael Ely as Scientific Officer

Sharon Baylis as Manpower Officer

David Stutt as Works Officer

Phil Askham as Mr Stothard

Anna Seymour as Mrs Stothard

Fiona Rook as Carol Stothard

Christine Buckley as Woman in Supermarket

Joe Belcher as Shopkeeper

David Major as Boy in Supermarket

Maggie Ford as Peace Speaker

Mike Kay as Trade Unionist

Richard Albrecht as Officer at Food Depot

Ted Beyer as Policeman

Dean Williamson as Policeman

Joe Holmes as Mr Langley

Andy Fenn-Rodgers as Patrol Officer

Graham Hill as Soldier

Nigel Collins as Soldier

Jerry Ready as Looter

Dennis Conlon as Looter

Greta Dunn as Woman at Hospital

Nat Jackley as Old Man at Graveyard

John Livesey as Street Trader

Victoria O'Keefe as Jane

Lee Daley as Spike

Marcus Lund as Gaz

Lesley Judd as Newscaster

Colin Ward-Lewis as Newscaster

Paul Vaughan as Narrator (voice)

Ingrid P. Frehley as Woman with dead baby (uncredited)

Michael Shale as Man who has leg amputated (uncredited)

Anne Sellors as Woman who urinates herself (uncredited)

Lee Cambell as Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited)

Jonathan Harston as Survivor on the Moors (uncredited)

Patrick Allen as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Ed Bishop as US President (voice) (uncredited)