The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Book Series

The British made children’s television series Timeslip was first shown on ITV in 1970 and 1971 and comprised four series. Series one and two reviewed here were called “The Wrong End of Time” and “Time of the Ice Box” and each contained six 25 minute episodes. Timeslip series three and four contained one eight-episode series – “The Year of the Burn Up” and one six-episode series – “The Day of the Clone”. The main stars were two children – Simon Randall (played by Spencer Banks) and Liz Skinner (played by Cheryl Burfield). They discover a time barrier that lets them travel backwards and forwards in time.

The Wrong End of Time

A girl called Sarah mysteriously disappears through a fence near an old naval base watched only by a drunk. When he relates the tale in the local pub, a certain Charles Traynor (Denis Quilley) takes a particular interest. Meanwhile Liz is on holiday with her parents and her friend Simon. They too go to the base and go though the fence, which is a time barrier and takes them back to 1940 where the base was a research station into military weapon systems, and was run by Traynor, whom Liz recognises from the present. Also at the base is Frank Skinner (John Alkin), Liz’s father in his youth (Liz’s father in the present was played by Derek Benfield).

In the present, Frank has amnesia about his time at the base, the reasons for which are discovered during the series. The base has been captured by German soldiers. Liz’s mother Jean (Iris Russell) sometimes manages to make telepathic contact with Liz. They rescue Sarah and discover information Traynor needs that is of national security importance. During the adventure, Liz is shot and there is blood but no wound, supporting Traynor’s theory that they can’t be hurt in the past. The episode ends with Liz and Simon going back through the barrier but finding themselves not in the present but in a frozen landscape.

The Time of the Ice Box

Liz and Simon are in the future – 1990 – at the South Pole. Their ability not to be harmed holds as they surprise researchers at a biological laboratory by surviving after being out on the ice in ordinary clothes. Liz meets the grown up version of herself, now called Beth (played by Mary Preston), and her mother who has hardly aged at all.

The whole base is controlled by a supercomputer serviced by Larry (played by Robert Oates). The computer was designed by the base’s director, Morgan Devereaux (played by John Barron). One of the experiments is the development of a longevity drug.

Glitches in the computer are becoming more frequent but Devereaux insists they must be human error as the computer never makes mistakes.

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