Review
If like me you were in your early teens when this first aired you were probably a fan too of this lowtech but engaging children's scifi series. Replacing another favourite in the ITV schedules of the time 𢫎 Of Wands" "The Tomorrow People" aimed even more at its target schoolage audience by employing child actors in the lead roles of teenage "homo superiors" with the ability to telepath and "jaunt" through time and space.
Unfortunately this was its biggest weakness as the young actors in the starring parts are almost universally wooden every take looking like they're repeating a line learned a minute before. The sets and special effects are similarly dodgy all cardboard and flashing lights yet watching the episodes today some forty years on with its excellent theme tune and arresting title sequence it still takes me back to my childhood when I would settle in after school and watch it faithfully.
That nostalgic glow makes it easy to forgive its rather obvious shortcomings and to be fair the stories I've rewatched are okay too sort of junior Dr Who. The good news is that all the original episodes are currently available to watch somewhere in hyperspace unlike the late lamented 𢫎 Of Wands" so enjoy them while you can.