THE TOMORROW PEOPLE SET 1 DVD REVIEW

A short blurb from A & E Home Video about Tomorrow People Set 1:” Welcome to the next stage of human evolution. Not your everyday Homo sapiens, the Tomorrow People are Homo superiors, children with amazing powers-here in our world TODAY. Thought provoking, action packed, and creatively produced, this first set of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE contains all twenty-six episodes from the series’ first two seasons on DVD for the first time.

I can remember watching this show in the early 1980’s on Nickelodeon and thought that it was a very well done series considering the budget. A very good children’s Sci-Fi Fantasy series premiered in 1973 for Thames Television to compete with Doctor Who on the BBC. It is about children and young adults who have powers of moving solid objects with their minds, reading minds and teleportation. Sort of an early version of X-Men. They battle people from outer space and crazed leaders from other countries and times in history. This from the brain of Roger Price, later to create the very popular-You Can’t Do That On Television. The show lasted for eight seasons with a total of 68 half hour episodes. A new series of The Tomorrow People were produced in the early 1990’s with a different cast. The cast of the original series have come back to do a few of the Big Finish audio series of The Tomorrow People. This set has the first 26 half-hour episodes over four discs. The show has not been shown here in the states since the 1980’s so this is a real treat. There is also an audio commentary on the first story “The Slaves Of Jedikiah" done with three of the original cast members.

VIDEO

The video quality is quite crisp and clear! The episodes were shot on videotape and the outside footage was done on film. No word that they are remastered in anyway but the video is in very good shape. All discs have a Play All feature.

Audio

Was originally recorded in Mono. Also here in mono but very clear!

Disc 1- 1. “The Slaves Of Jedikiah” (5 Episodes)

Disc 2- 1. “The Medusa Strain” (4 Episodes) with David Prowse (Darth Vader)
2. “The Vanishing Earth” (4 Episodes) with Kevin Stoney and John Woodnutt

Disc 3- 1. “The Blue And The Green” (5 Episodes)

Disc 4-1. “A Rift In Time” (4 Episodes)
2. “The Doomsday Men” (4 Episodes)




Extras

Disc 1: Audio Commentary for “The Slaves Of Jedikiah” with Nicolas Young, Peter Vaughn-Clarke and Phillip Gilbert
The Origins Of The Tomorrow People- (Text Only)
Cast Biographies- (Text Only)

Verdict

This is really great that The Tomorrow People is finally on DVD here in the states! Very well done series and defiantly worth to be part of your collection!


Rating; ****!