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This Play For Today achieved almost cult status with its tale of a friendly but naive lad from 150 years in the future who visited Britain in the 1980s.
By sending his flying saucer through a time warp, Dominick Hide (Peter Firth) left the year 2130 and returned to London in 1980 to do some research in order to replace the historical records destroyed in the never explained holocaust of 1999.
He discovered a city far removed from the one he had just left. In his time, the world was a hygienic place of order and calm, and Hide was bemused and confused by the hustle and bustle he now encountered.
Happily – having taken on the name ‘Gilbey’ – influenced by a quick glance at a bottle of gin – he was befriended by bohemian clothes shop owner Jane (Caroline Langrishe) who became his lover.
With a wife, Ava (Pippa Guard), patiently awaiting him in the future, Dominick shuttled back and forth between the two time zones unaware that his vaguely sinister boss Caleb Line (Patrick Magee) had set him up to sire his own great-great-grandfather.
Hide resurfaced in a second Play For Today two years later, entitled Another Flip For Dominick, in which Caleb sent him back to 1982 to find missing researcher Pyrus Bonnington (Ron Berglas) – one of Dominick’s former pupils.
Once again, Dominick met up with Jane (and his two-year-old son/great-great-grandfather) before returning to his wife, Ava, in his own time.
Another Flip For Dominick was Patrick Magee’s final acting role before his death on 14 August 1982 at the age of 60.
He died four months before Another Flip was broadcast.
Dominick Hide
Peter Firth Jane
Caroline Langrishe Ava
Pippa Guard Caleb Line
Patrick Magee Alaric
Trevor Ray Great Aunt Mavis
Sylvia Coleridge Pyrus Bonnington
Ron Berglas
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This Play For Today achieved almost cult status with its tale of a friendly but naive lad from 150 years in the future who visited Britain in the 1980s.
Happily – having taken on the name ‘Gilbey’ – influenced by a quick glance at a bottle of gin – he was befriended by bohemian clothes shop owner Jane (Caroline Langrishe) who became his lover.
Once again, Dominick met up with Jane (and his two-year-old son/great-great-grandfather) before returning to his wife, Ava, in his own time.
Dominick Hide
