Timeslip 1970: A Fan Guide

In the autumn of 1970, two teenagers found a hole in a fence and stepped into one of British television's most remarkable adventures.Timeslip ran for twenty-six episodes on ITV between September 1970 and March 1971, sending its young heroes Liz Skinner and Simon Randall through a mysterious Time Barrier and into stories that tackled cloning, ecological collapse, scientific ethics, and the psychological legacy of the Second World War. Brave, intelligent, and genuinely unsettling in places, it treated its audience as capable of handling complexity at a time when most children's television did not.More than fifty years on, it remains a landmark of British genre television, cited by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter among others as one of the greatest science fiction series ever made, and beloved by the generation that watched it from behind their sofas on Monday teatimes.Timeslip 1970: A Fan Guide covers all four serials in depth, exploring the performances of Spencer Banks and Cheryl Burfield, the writing of Bruce Stewart and Victor Pemberton, the producing vision of Ruth Boswell, and the unforgettable Denis Quilley as the endlessly watchable, never-quite-trustworthy Charles Traynor. It traces the show's legacy from its original broadcast through its cult afterlife and the Big Finish audio revivals of 2020.For anyone who remembers pressing their hands against an invisible barrier, looking for the gap, dreaming they could travel to another time phase, this is the guide they have been waiting for.