Timeslip: The Complete Series
by Peter Jeffries, Ron Francis
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Actor: Cheryl Burfield, Denis Quilley, Iris Russell, Mary Preston, Spencer BanksDirector: Peter Jeffries, Ron Francis
Writer: James Boswell
Writer: Ruth Boswell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Movie Reviews of Timeslip: The Complete Series
Movie Review: I was there for the original series when I was a kid. Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this on tv when I was a kid, (I live in UK) and only ever saw it in black and white owing to the fact we only had a black and white tv at the time. I was interested in seeing the colour episode on the dvd in The Ice Box story. What a shame that all the rest of the colour episodes were of such bad quality that they could not be used, only the one. But at least it is from my favourite story, The Ice Box, though the first one was very good too, when the kids end up back in wartime.
I used to like John Barcroft who played Bukov in The Ice Box. Thought he was quite good looking. Never saw him in anything else, before or since.
Not so keen on the last two stories but the first two are very good indeed, and I was fascinated back then as a child seeing all these mind boggling concepts about time travel that really made me think and fired my imagination about old abandoned airforce or ministry of defence places. Something very creepy about those places especially on a dark night or with a cold moon and that first story in the series where the kids find the hole in time in the gap in the wire fence really held my interest back then.
I've always been fascinated in anything like this since, but sadly have not seen anything quite like it since, so to me, it is unique in that respect.
Wish there were more series like this one.
Summary of Timeslip: The Complete Series
Have you ever had the feeling you've been here before? Or you know what will happen next? Perhaps you're experiencing a TIMESLIP, where past and future are just a blink of an eye away. A TIMESLIP is exactly what fifteen-year-olds Simon Randall and Liz Skinner stumble through while on vacation. In search of a missing girl, the intrepid teens pass through an invisible time barrier that takes them back to World War II. Soon, though it could be later, the two find themselves traveling to 1990s Antarctica, a tropical jungle that turns out to be England, and a secret research institute in the mid sixties. Guiding the Skinners is the enigmatic Traynor, who appears in different forms throughout their fantastic adventures. Ahead of its time when it premiered in 1970, TIMESLIP tackled topics like anti-aging drugs, global warming and cloning that are part of today's headlines. Ambitious, superbly acted and thought provoking, this first-time DVD edition features all 26 original episodes. DVD Features: "Beyond the Barrier" Documentary; Timeslip Intro; Selected Biographies; Interactive Map; Interactive Menus; Scene SelectionTimeslip is a suspenseful, mysterious, brain-puzzling British serial from 1970 suitable for kids and adults. Told in four suites of stories, each comprised of six two-part episodes, Timeslip concerns the adventures of a pair of teenage friends, Liz (Cheryl Burfield) and Simon (Spencer Banks), who stumble across an invisible portal to the past and future at the edge of an old navy base. In their first experience, "The Wrong End of Time," Liz and Simon arrive inside the secure navy base as it was during World War II. There they are captured and interrogated by none other than Liz's future father, Frank (Derek Benfield), and his commander, an enigmatic physicist named Traynor (Denis Quilley). By coincidence--or not--the kids have turned up on the night the base was temporarily overtaken by Germans in search for the truth behind Traynor's alleged research into radar. Making things even more puzzling, Liz and Simon just happen to have found the portal on the same 1970 night when an older Traynor has appeared in town greatly curious to see how Liz and Simon make out on their visit to the past.
The second suite, "The Time of the Ice Box" is a much weirder story set in the kids' then-future: 1990. Traveling through the portal, Liz and Simon turn up by a research station at the South Pole, where they are mistaken for human guinea pigs set to participate in some extreme and top-secret bio-engineering experiments conducted by a barely human yet brilliant scientist. "The Year of the Burn Up" anticipates global warming in a tale finding Liz and Simon once again exploring the future and discovering that England is now a jungle. Just as strange is the appearance of a rather mad Traynor in this scenario, as well as an adult version of Simon--a man with a number for a name. (Liz meets her own grown-up self in "The Time of the Ice Box.") Finally, "The Day of the Clone" has Simon searching for a secret government research center five years in the past, where he encounters yet another variation on Traynor. Even in some of its sillier moments (characters standing around talking about taking action instead of actually taking it), Timeslip is irresistible good fun and hard to stop watching. It's a pleasure to set aside a day or two just to plow through it with minimal breaks, enjoying every time-travel paradox along the way. --Tom Keogh
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