One of the first Sci-Fi dramas to be aimed predominantly at teenagers and young adults, Timeslip holds it's place in television history.
The series is well thought out and uses a variation on the Einstein-Rosen Bridge concept of wormholes in time, the first television series to do so.
The stories, spread over four encompassed acts, became must see viewing in the afterschool timeslot, and at one point was the most watched children's TV series on British television.
The characters were well played out, on the whole, for it's time period but also, again with the era in mind, portrayed the male characters as mostly headstrong and in charge, with the female lead (Cheryl Burford), as a rather more annoying person, often in need of rescue and support, at times emotionally and physically weak.
What made this series standout more than other similarly targeted productions was not the pseudo science, though okay in it's own way, nor the premise of the storyline, but rather, after all the children had been through to find their way back to their own time, the producers decided to kill them off, in a desolate frozen wasteland, in the final 10 seconds before the finales closing credits. Much to the dismay of many of the series followers.
Review of Timeslip
