In Nick Dunning’s The Lorelei – made for BBC Two’s Screen Two strand and first broadcast on 19 March 1990 – lonely Kate (Amanda Redman), a school teacher from London, is on a walking and photography holiday in Wales when she pitches up at the remote Lorelei boarding house. The owners, the Walkers (John Nettleton … Continue reading
Warning: Contains spoilers for the first film, The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980) Play for Today‘s uncharacteristically light-hearted and whimsical 1980 offering The Flipside of Dominick Hide, about a time traveller (Peter Firth) who ends up becoming his own great-great-grandfather, was a hit with the public and two years later the original writers, Jeremy Paul … Continue reading
The Flipside of Dominick Hide, written by Jeremy Paul and Alan Gibson, directed by Gibson (who had previously shot the last two Hammer Dracula films, Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)) and first broadcast on 9 December 1980 was something of a departure for the normally terribly serious and worthy … Continue reading
In 1911 Oxford academics Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain published An Adventure under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont, in which they recounted how, on a trip to the Palace of Versailles in 1901, they had somehow slipped back in time, seeing the gardens as they had been at the time of the … Continue reading
A man in the Spanish countryside investigates a young woman he sees stripping off in the forest near his home and is stabbed in the arm by an assailant whose face is wrapped in pink bandages. Seeking help from a neighbouring scientist, he hides in a large device that turns out be a time machine. … Continue reading
An updated remake of Kosei Saito’s time travel fantasy Sengoku jieitai/Time Slip/G.I. Samurai (1979), in turn taken from Ryo Hanmura’s novel of the same name. The film has drawn flack in some quarters from more sniffy reviewers who criticise it for its lack of depth and, bizarrely, for being unoriginal. One wonders what they were … Continue reading
Back in the early 70s, Peter Fonda’s acting career was at its still going strong – he’d appeared in a number of popular counter-culture low-budgeters in the 60s, culminating in the runaway success of Easy Rider (1969), and had started the new decade with such interesting ventures as Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie (1971), … Continue reading
