Timeslip - The Complete Collection Box Set (4 Discs)
Featuring: Denis Quilley, Spencer Banks & Derek Benfield
Format: DVD | Rating: Universal Suitable for All
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'Timeslip' has a special hold on the memories of those children who saw it when it was first broadcast in the 70s, however it has been long gone...until now! When a young girl vanishes near a derelict naval station in St Oswald, a fantastic series of events is set in motion which sends teenagers Simon Randall and Liz Skinner backwards and forwards time.
The Wrong End Of Time Teenager Sarah enters a private but deserted Ministry of Defence field. Hearing a strange noise, she moves to a post where there had once been a tall fence. A farmer who has been sleeping in the field calls to her but she is mesmerised by the strange sound. She feels out to an invisible barrier and suddenly vanishes into it.
The Time Of The Ice Box An increasingly duplicitous Traynor convinces young Simon to return through the time barrier against the wishes of Liz's parents. When Liz follows him, the two time travellers find themselves mistaken for scientific guinea pigs at an Arctic research base twenty years in the future where the officious base commander is apparently on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The Year Of The Burn Up Escaping from the dying icebox, Simon and Liz are transported by the time barrier to an alternate 1990 where a technocratic society's misuse of scientific progress has resulted in the breakdown of the planet's climate. As the earth faces destruction from the growing heat, Simon is forced to confront not just his own personal future but also an elderly, schizophrenic Traynor bent on revenge against those who betrayed him.
The Day Of The Clone Returning to the present day, Liz is kidnapped. Simon's search for her leads him to the government research centre run by the Traynor. Escaping through the time barrier, the two teenagers find themselves back at the centre but five years in the past. There, they are surprised to discover not just Morgan C. Devereaux from the icebox but also a very different Charles Traynor.
- Exclusive stills gallery
- Biographies of key cast members
| Denis Quilley, Spencer Banks, Derek Benfield, Iris Russell & Cheryl Burfield |
| Universal Suitable for All |
| 1970 |
| Fullscreen 4:3 |
| English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono |
| English for the hearing impaired |
| 10 hours (approx) |
| Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
Average rating (1 review)
Timeslip is a good solid example of children's television drama from the early seventies. It represents an early example of the way ITV was forging new ways of presenting drama for young viewers with an inteligent and original script that doesn't for one moment talk down to its audience. Indeed, the series presents scientific concepts that would have been well beyond the comprehension of its original target audience like cloning, global warming and a somewhat more intellectual concept of time travel than simply using an advance machine like Doctor Who et al.
Despite its somewhat cheap production values, Timeslip's ideas and engaging characters shine through and its historical value is huge making it not just a nostalgia purchase but also of interest to media students and the scientific community as it gives a curious example of how things we take for granted today were seen (or even foretold) over thiry years ago.
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