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A celebration of Bad Science Fiction
Jul. 24th, 2006 02:28 amDeep in my oldest memories of television lurked Somethings. Somethings bad. Somethings about Hitler. And bubbles. And teleportation. Deep in a no-budget sci-fi nightmare they came back to me - the Tomorrow People!
A Night-Rider-like detour into the shadowy realm of cinematic enjoyment that, after the age of eight, can no longer exist, the Tomorrow People was an early 70s science fiction series about a new species of human with amazing psychic powers. Locks open at their command. Their clothing shifts in the blink of an eye. They casually teleport to Scotland, deep space, and the light-years distant Galactic Federation. And the price they pay for these abilities? They can never kill. Armed instead with stun guns, 70s fashions, and a stiff upper lip, they jaunt forth to rid the world of evil, rescue new recruits oppressed and misunderstood by a superstitious world, and exchange tepid witticisms with a singing bio-organic father-figure computer some call "Tim." In their world, Hitler is a shape-shifting intergalactic psychopath, and the Hitler Youth, genetically engineered to live forever, operate an underground bunker where the Fuerer lies in wait to reap the harvest of control genes secretly seeded into the world population. Bouncing inflated condoms reminiscent of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes migrate freely through space, then cleverly disguise themselves as "fashionable" plastic jumpsuits in order to achieve world domination. And that's just the beginning.
With its casual British arrogance, punitively retro wardrobe, and worse-than-Doctor Who special effects, the Tomorrow People is classic example of television simply too horrendous to miss. So don't. The brain cells you have left afterward will thank you, and the rest were probably poisoned by Nazi aliens anyway.
A Night-Rider-like detour into the shadowy realm of cinematic enjoyment that, after the age of eight, can no longer exist, the Tomorrow People was an early 70s science fiction series about a new species of human with amazing psychic powers. Locks open at their command. Their clothing shifts in the blink of an eye. They casually teleport to Scotland, deep space, and the light-years distant Galactic Federation. And the price they pay for these abilities? They can never kill. Armed instead with stun guns, 70s fashions, and a stiff upper lip, they jaunt forth to rid the world of evil, rescue new recruits oppressed and misunderstood by a superstitious world, and exchange tepid witticisms with a singing bio-organic father-figure computer some call "Tim." In their world, Hitler is a shape-shifting intergalactic psychopath, and the Hitler Youth, genetically engineered to live forever, operate an underground bunker where the Fuerer lies in wait to reap the harvest of control genes secretly seeded into the world population. Bouncing inflated condoms reminiscent of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes migrate freely through space, then cleverly disguise themselves as "fashionable" plastic jumpsuits in order to achieve world domination. And that's just the beginning.
With its casual British arrogance, punitively retro wardrobe, and worse-than-Doctor Who special effects, the Tomorrow People is classic example of television simply too horrendous to miss. So don't. The brain cells you have left afterward will thank you, and the rest were probably poisoned by Nazi aliens anyway.
