The Final Programme

The Final Programme (released in the United States as The Last Days of Man on Earth) is a 1973 British black comedy science-fiction film written and directed by Robert Fuest, based on the 1968 novel by Michael Moorcock. It stars Jon Finch as Moorcock's fictional hero Jerry Cornelius, along with Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Ronald Lacey, Harry Andrews, and Derrick O'Connor and Sarah Douglas in their film debuts. The film was distributed in the UK by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors, and released on October 4, 1973. It received a lukewarm critical and commercial response, though its pop art production design was praised. Later criticism has described the film as a cult classic. As of 2026, it is the only Moorcock novel to have reached the screen, and has been called "an interesting document of an important period in British science fiction literature."