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    Traveller In Time, A

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    1 9 7 8 (UK)
    5 x 30 minute episodes

    Teenager Penelope (Sophie Thompson, the younger sister of Emma and future star of the hits BBC TV show The Detectorists) lives in the twentieth century, but when she goes to live with her Aunt Tissie (Elizabeth Bradley) and Uncle Barnabas (Gerald James) at Thackers, a remote ancient Derbyshire farmhouse, she finds herself travelling back in time to the Elizabethan era.

    There she joins the lives of the notorious Babington family and finds herself caught up in treason against Queen Elizabeth I by a Catholic faction supportive of Mary Queen of Scots (Heather Chasen), and plotting her rescue to restore her to the throne.

    Most location shooting took place at the Groom family farm in Dethick, Derbyshire. This led to the farmer’s son Simon Groom becoming a long-running Blue Peter presenter when he chanced a radio interview with producer Dorothea Brooking, leading him to audition for Biddy Baxter at the BBC.

    Penelope Taberner Cameron
    Sophie Thompson
    Uncle Barnabas
    Gerald James
    Aunt Tissie/Dame Cicely Taberner
    Elizabeth Bradley
    Tabitha
    Sarah Benfield
    Francis Babington
    Simon Gipps-Kent
    Mistress Babington
    Mary Maude
    Jude
    Louis Hammond
    Anthony Babington
    Charles Rogers
    Mary Queen of Scots
    Heather Chasen
    Arabella 
    Michele Copsey
    Tom Snowball
    Michael Greatorex
    Seton 
    Gillian Maude
    Adam Deedick
    Graham Rigby
    Dick Woodiwiss
    Derrick Gilbert
    Chideock Tichbourne
    Paul Geoffrey
    Father Ballard
    Seymour Green
    Will Jessup
    Anthony Lindford
    Monsieur Oudry
    Gabor Vernon

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