AMAZING STORY

FIFTY years after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest debuted as one of the greatest films ever made, it's to be revived in a new television series.

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The movie - based on the story by counterculture icon Ken Kesey - won all of the five top Oscars - best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay.

Hollywood has tried in vain for decades to come up with a sequel that met with the approval of Kesey's estate.

But producers finally have his family's blessing for a series that follows the troubled, comical and ultimately tragic lives of patients in a repressive mental institution, where a rebellious convict - played in the film by Jack Nicholson - is sent for psychiatric evaluation, and encourages the intimidated patients to seize control of their own lives and defy the tyrannical Nurse Ratched.

The 1975 hit movie had a dramatic impact on the public perception of mental health institutions, raised awareness of abuses, increased government scrutiny, and helped empower patients to take greater control of their treatment.

Set in 1963, its harrowing depiction of electro-convulsive therapy and the horrors of lobotomy surgery ignited public outrage towards the psychiatric community.