The Tomorrow People - Overview

Children's Sci-fi series The Tomorrow People gets a roasting in this brief documentary. One series that is proof that "the memory cheats" - but it at least had imagination

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• The
• tomorrow
• people
• sc-fi
• science
• fiction
• children's
• john
• elizabeth
• mike
• tyso
• carol
• kenny
• stephen
• andrew
• 1970s

[straker2]

I see most of the clips are from one of the two worst episodes they ever made, which is a bit like doing an "over view" of Dr.Who where all the clips are from The Twin Dilemma and Time lash with focus on the big slug and the puppet Morlox and a few people saying "Yeah, Dr.Who was a bit cheap and silly". However, the truth is, the best episodes of The Tomorrrow People were terrific.

[michaelleacy]

I agree, it's a really terrible example of the show. Unlike the Sapphire and Steel overview, which made it look really good, this went the other way to make it look as bad as possible. It should have centered on the inventiveness and imagination of the show

[straker2]

Yeah, well, I watched A Rift In Time today and I don't think there's a bad effect in it. Same with Secret Weapon and The Dirtiest Business. The Jedikiah ones were always suspenseful, too. And The Blue and the Green was quite well done, over all. It was a good show, especially in the first three or four seasons. I often wonder if the fact Peter Davison was in one of the lesser, sillier ones, A Man for Emily, has hurt its rep, since they bring that up all the time!

[michaelleacy]

Along with Revenge of Jedikiah you've mentioned my four favourite stories from TP. The series had its strong moments but to be fair had plenty of poor ones as well. I would say 50/50

[JellicleKat]

Hold up, where and when did this air?

[michaelleacy]

JellicleKat, this was on Channel 4's Top 10 of Science Fiction a few years ago (around 2003?)

[key2kingdom]

Yay for Nick Young!

He's a super-cool guitarist too :o)

[rjr1967]

"was ITVs answer to Doctor Who, but only in the same way that Magpie was their answer to Blue Peter" - and what way was that, pray tell? Why can't presenters/experts/celebrities learn to use words to communicate ideas instead of filling up the ether with garbage?

[krumstets]

The 1970's and THAT theme music with THOSE opening titles - what a combination.

Ideas that seemed ahead of their time on daytime TV.

Cool.

[trapadoored]

no ones seen him since!? He went on to create "You Can't Do that on Television" arguably the most popular show of the entire 80's, which further proved what a weirdo he was

[BIackMoonCGI]

That ending was brilliant, I didn't see that coming.

[TheNaomiengland]

Simion Gipps Kent is sexy .

[waverag]

funny, in the States, adolescents went through phases of breaking out,

but all they got was a tube of Clearasil.

[truthseeker444]

I remember this, I loved the early series. Did not even watch the later ones.

[VinnyMonster1]

Tommoroow People was nothing like Dr Who!

[richardkokon]

@straker2 thats the thing about modern times and media , they would rather create idiots and stupid people rather than intelligent individuals . After all there easier to control right