The BEST episodes of The Tomorrow People
Every episode of The Tomorrow People ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Tomorrow People!
The show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution known colloquially as Tomorrow People. Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called "breaking out", when they develop their special abilities. These abilities include psychic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, they are physically unable to deliberately kill others.
#1 - Hitler's Last Secret, Part 1: Men Like Rats
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/5/1978
The driver of an army Major knocks down and kills a young boy who looks fourteen years old and wears a Nazi uniform. In the Lab, John shows Hsui Tai a baby rat that is over seven years old - they normally only live to three or four - and explains that he is repeating an experiment the Americans tried, which stopped the aging process before maturity, causing the normal repair processes to work more efficiently, and giving the subject longer life. Tim shows them film of Adolf Hitler inspecting the laboratory of Professor Friedl, who was carrying out the same experiments in the 1940's. Mike arrives wearing parts of an SS uniform, which John tells him in disgust to take off before going out. Meanwhile, in an SS bunker, leader Karl Brandt gives a speech to his cadets in order boost their morale following the escape of one of their number; the cadets have been in the bunker for thirty-three years, since the defeat of Germany at the end of the Second World War. The cadets look after the sleepers, people held in suspended animation. Mike goes to a cafe without his uniform, but three youths wearing SS uniforms and calling themselves �Storm Troopers� attack him for being in their meeting place. Mike returns with a black eye to the Lab, where John tells him that there were gangs of young people all over the world who have developed a fascination for Nazi uniforms. One of the SS cadets finds some fluid leaking from the suspended animation equipment, and the inside person is dead. Tim receives a call on the special telephone line from Major Hughes of the SIS Special Squad, and John sends him a matter transporter to bring him to the Lab. The Major tells them about the boy being killed: German records show that he was born in 1930, and should have been forty-seven, and he also appeared in the film of Hitler Tim showed earlier. In the bunker, Karl decides to wake up Professor Friedl to ask his advice. Mike returns in uniform to the caf�, where the �Storm Troopers� are bet
#2 - The Blue and the Green, Part 1: An Apple for the Teacher
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/4/1974
Stephen�s classmate, Robert, paints an accurate picture of Rexal 4, an alien world. Recognising it from his travels, Stephen tells John and Tim, and mentions that he thinks his teacher, Elizabeth, is breaking-out. The following day, Elizabeth witnesses Stephen in the act of jaunting home and hears him telepathically talking to John and Tim, but is convinced that it is a trick. The next day Robert's picture 4 has changed from a bright, sunny landscape to a dark and stormy picture. Investigating back at the Lab, John and Tim find similar instances of pictures that change, causing serious disturbances amongst schoolchildren. Stephen witnesses aggressive behaviour amongst his schoolmates. He takes John to meet Elizabeth, but she refuses to believe him and tries to leave, but as John jaunts in front of her to stop her, it triggers her breaking-out. She tries to run away again, but Stephen jaunts right in front of her. She panics and jaunts away, out of control.
#3 - Hitler's Last Secret, Part 2: Seeds of Destruction
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/1978
John believes that the Nazis used genetic engineering at the end of the war. Major Hughes and some British soldiers from a local military base search for the place that the SS cadet came from. When they find the hidden entrance, Professor Friedl suggests using a weapon called the �Sleeping Giant�. Tim tries an experiment on Mike: he shows him a picture of Hitler, which causes Mike to salute; then he shows Mike a picture of Neebor in his natural, disgusting state, which breaks the control. When Major Hughes finds the secret door, �Hitler� takes control of the British soldiers via a broadcast, and orders them to kill Major Hughes, but he escapes and goes to the Lab. The SS cadets plan to broadcast a television message to the youth of the world to make them follow Hitler's orders. John, Hsui Tai and Major Hughes jaunt to the bunker, while Mike stays behind. John uses a stun gun to incapacitate the British soldiers, but �Hitler�, Karl and Professor Friedl go to the television studio, but they can only broadcast to a few European countries. John, Hsui Tai and Major Hughes jaunt into the television studio and stun the Professor and �Hitler�, but Karl arrives and forces John and Hsui Tai to drop their stun guns. When �Hitler� was stunned he lost control of his shape-changing, and he reverts to his natural state. Mike jaunts into the room and stuns everyone, including his friends, and tells �Hitler� to continue with the broadcast. As �Hitler� begins, he is stunned by Mike, causing him to revert once more, and this breaks the control of everyone watching.
#4 - The Slaves of Jedikiah, Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/30/1973
The Tomorrow People - John, Carol and Kenny - have discovered that a teenager called Stephen is about to manifest his powers. They trace him to hospital, where he was taken after collapsing from the shock of his new abilities. Carol teleports into his room to make contact, and begins to teach Stephen how to control his telepathy. They are attacked by Ginge and Lefty, two bikers acting under instruction from the mysterious Jedikiah.
#5 - The Slaves of Jedikiah, Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/7/1973
John, Carol and Kenny mount an operation to rescue the kidnapped Stephen. They take him to their Lab, based in a disused part of the London Underground train system, and introduce him to TIM, their biotropic sentient computer. Stephen is still under Jedikiah�s control, and, left alone in the Lab, he deactivates TIM's external connections and opens the door to allow Jedikiah, Ginge and Lefty to enter.
#6 - The Medusa Strain, Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/11/1973
Five hundred years in the future, a spaceship comes across the shape-changing robot Jedikiah, floating in space. The captain, Rabowski, repairs it. In the present day, Stephen is trying unsuccessfully to develop a photograph of something he saw in hyperspace. Carol and Stephen jaunt into hyperspace to see if they can locate anything unusual. Back on the spaceship, Robowski shows Jedikiah his captive, Peter, whose telepathic abilities are being negated by an alien creature known as a Medusa. Jedikiah tricks Peter into operating Rabowski's Time Key, and they travel back to the Tower of London in the present day, and steal the Crown Jewels. When Carol and Stephen jaunt back to the Lab, they find that everyone is frozen.
#7 - Worlds Away, Part 1: Secret of the Pyramid
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1975
Ambassador Timus Irnok Mosta visits the Tomorrow People in their Lab, and asks for their help. He takes John and Elizabeth to the Great Pyramid of Chaeops in Egypt, and tells them that the pyramids were built by the alien Kulthan. Hidden behind a secret panel is a Psi-Damping transmitter, used to prevent telepathic abilities operating on Earth. Timus asks the Tomorrow People to travel the planet Peeri, to deactivate the Psi Damping Transmitter there, and to persuade the Kulthan to leave. Unlike standard Galactic Agents, the Tomorrow People are not reliant on their telepathic powers, and are perfect for the mission. Arriving on Peerri, John, Stephen, Elizabeth and Tyso set up base in a cave used by Tikno, one of Mosta�s clone brothers. They rescue a girl, Lenda, from a hunt, but Tyso gets his foot stuck in a man-trap, and some hunters approach.
#8 - The Vanishing Earth, Part 4
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/30/1973
Ginge breaks free and closes the lava ducts, while Steen, Carol, John and Stephen find the Spidron's control room, just as he and Joy teleport away. Later, Joy goes to Spidron's hideout near his spaceship, and they prepare to leave Earth with the magnamite. Steen, Carol, John and Stephen track Spidron's spaceship to London, where they find a sewer entrance. Spidron uses mind control on Ginge and Lefty, and escapes alone in his spaceship. Steen arrests Joy, who reveals that she double-crossed Spidron by keeping the magnamite on Earth in the mining areas. When the lava reached the storage areas, the magnamite flowed back into the Earth's crust, stabilising it and averting the destruction of the planet.
#9 - The Vanishing Earth, Part 3
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/23/1973
Carol and John go back to the Lab and find Stephen, unharmed. The mysterious man reveals himself to be Steen, a galactic policeman, who is chasing the criminal Spidron, who has been raiding planets for magnamite, a rare substance that holds planets together. Steen, Carol, John and Stephen use the matter transporter in the Haunted House to travel to Spidron's base. Spidron releases all his captives from mind control and opens the lava ducts to flood the base.
#10 - The Vanishing Earth, Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/16/1973
Lefty is worried about Ginge, and contacts the Tomorrow People. Stephen goes with him to the amusement arcade, where they discover the matter transporter in the Haunted House. They are seen by Smithers and Joy. Lefty escapes, but Stephen is captured by Joy and thrown into the sea. John and Carol arrive, but the mysterious man has already rescued Stephen, and teleports Stephen away.
#11 - The Vanishing Earth, Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/9/1973
The Tomorrow People are worried by the dramatic increase in natural disasters on Earth. Ginge and Lefty are in Clacton-on-Sea. Ginge meets a girl named Joy, who runs a Haunted House with a man called Smithers. Ginge is kidnapped by Joy, who is working for a strange hooded figure known as the Spidron. Using a matter transporter, Ginge is transported to Spidron�s lair, where he is brainwashed and put to work mining for valuable minerals.
#12 - The Medusa Strain, Part 4
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/2/1973
TIM brings John and Stephen back to the Lab and, with Kenny, is able to bring them back to life. Jedikiah turns against Rabowski and, in the struggle, the Time Key is damaged. Rabowski makes his way to where Carol, Peter and Ginge are imprisoned, and Jedikiah turns the air and heat off. John and Stephen wake up, have to sleep to regain their strength. Jedikiah restores life support, locks up Rabowski and takes Peter to repair the Time Key. But Peter booby-traps the Time Key, and releases Carol and Rabowski from their cages. Attempting to escape, Jedikiah and Rabowski fight, but are transported by the Time Key to the surface of Mercury. Peter then uses the Time Key to return everyone to their own time zones.
#13 - The Medusa Strain, Part 3
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/25/1973
Peter agrees to use the Time Key to save Carol, but insists that he be able to use his telepathy to help in the task. Jedikiah lets him, and Peter manages to contact John, Kenny and Stephen, telling them where he and Carol being held. John and Stephen jaunt into hyperspace to look for the spaceship, while Rabowski, Jedikiah and the Medusa use the Time Key to go to the underground tunnels near the Lab. Rabowski captures Ginge, but the biker manages to push the Medusa onto the electrified rail lines, killing it. Ginge is then taken back to the spaceship. John and Stephen find the spaceship in hyperspace, but are shot by the ship�s laser.
#14 - The Medusa Strain, Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/18/1973
Carol and Stephen find Jedikiah, Rabowski and Peter at the Tower of London, but Carol is kidnapped and taken back to Rabowski�s spaceship in the future. Jedikiah and Rabowski put Carol into the airlock and start pumping the air out, to force Peter to operate the Time Key again.
#15 - The Slaves of Jedikiah, Part 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/4/1973
John and Stephen jaunt to the ship but are caught in a trap. Carol jaunts to a different part of the ship, and manages to damage Jedikiah with a stun gun. The ship is damaged, releasing John and Stephen. They then find Kenny, and a reformed Ginge and Lefty and release them. The Cyclops explains that his crew has been killed and he needs telepaths to pilot the ship home. As the vessel breaks up, the Cyclops is killed, and the Tomorrow People jaunt back to Earth just before the ship explodes. Jedikiah is left floating in space.
#16 - The Slaves of Jedikiah, Part 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/21/1973
Jedikiah takes Kenny back to his base, and imprisons him, Ginge and Lefty in a room containing a matter transmitter, which transports them all to a spaceship. Carol, John and Stephen locate Jedikiah's base but only just escape before it explodes. Jedikiah reveals that he is a shape-changing android, working for an alien creature known as the Cyclops. The Cyclops contacts Carol, John and Stephen, telling them to come to his spaceship if they want Kenny back.
#17 - War of the Empires, Part 1: Close Encounter
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/1979
Elizabeth and Timus are negotiating with a representative of the Sorsons - a race of advanced non-humanoid aliens - to try to end the war between them and the Thargons, but their attempts are unsuccessful. Elizabeth contacts the Lab and tells her fellow Tomorrow People that the Galactic Federation is powerless to prevent the Sorsons and Thargons entering Earth's area of closed space. After the Sorsons land on the moon and begin construction of a base, the President of the United States of America sends a space-shuttle to investigate. Tim detects the arrival of the Sorson and Thargon spaceships, and John and Mike decide to jaunt up to try to stop any fighting; but the battle begins before they can act, and the American space-shuttle is caught in the middle. John and Mike save the crewmen, Evans and Ricardo, by using matter transporters to send them back to their base; however, despite contacting both fleets, they are unable to prevent the battle from ending.
#18 - The Dirtiest Business Part 2: A Spy Dies...
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/1977
John, Liz and Mike try to save the Russian girl from both the British SIS and the Russian KGB, with mixed success.
#19 - The Dirtiest Business Part 1: A Spy is Born
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/1977
After an attack on the lab by the SIS, Mike tries to help a girl who may become a Tomorrow Person escape from the KGB.
#20 - The Blue and the Green, Part 3: The Trojan Horse
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/1974
John and Stephen hear Elizabeth's cries and jaunt to help, scaring the boys away. Stephen returns to the school and finds the video camera smashed, while John buys the painting from the junk shop, and discovers that Robert lives above the shop. Stephen is invited home by Robert, who shows him a cellar full of strange pictures, and boxes of blue and green badges; he tells Stephen that he did not know his parents, and that his grandfather is not really his grandfather. He also gives Stephen another picture. Meanwhile, John and Tim attempt a Neutron examination on their painting, but it destroys itself. Tim discovers that Robert does not appear in official records. Robert has been using the picture he gave to Stephen to spy on the Tomorrow People in the Lab, and when John returns to the shop, he is captured by Robert�s grandfather. Under Robert�s control, John telekinetically damages the Lab, then disappears.
#21 - The Blue and the Green, Part 2: The Changing Picture
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/1974
John and Stephen jaunt into hyperspace to look for Elizabeth. When they find her she jaunts back to the classroom. Stephen and John manage to calm her down, and take her to the Lab. The next day sees Robert hand out blue and green badges; Elizabeth takes a blue one, while Stephen takes green. Chris arrives at the Lab after a fight with his brother Ginge; he tells John that the fight was due to Chris being is a Green and Ginge a Blue. John removes Chris's badge, returning him to normal. Back at school a fight breaks out in the school classroom, with even Stephen and Elizabeth taking part. That night John and Stephen return to the classroom and set up a video camera to try to record the picture changing. Meanwhile, Elizabeth passes a junk shop and sees another of the strange pictures in the window. As the picture changes, she is threatened by a group of boys.
#22 - The Slaves of Jedikiah, Part 3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/14/1973
Carol realises that TIM has stopped working and contacts John. They both go to the Lab, but are caught in a trap set by Jedikiah and are stranded in hyperspace. Kenny jaunts to the Lab and manages to reactivate TIM, but Jedikiah burns through the lock of the door, and Kenny is captured. TIM locates Carol and John in hyperspace and jaunts them back to the Lab, but Jedikiah uses a device to paralyse them all.
#23 - Worlds Away, Part 3: More for the Burning
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/9/1975
John, Stephen and Tikno regain consciousness as the Vesh Warriors return, and Tikno convinces Vanyon that they are friendly and want to defeat the Kulthan. They decide to join forces and attack the Kulthan pyramid. Stephen and Arkron return to the hideout to tell Elizabeth what is happening, but find that everyone has been captured by the Veshtaker. As John, Tikno and the Vesh Warriors approach the pyramid they feel the effect of the Psi-Damping Transmitter, and hear a humming sound. The Veshtaker take Elizabeth, Tyso and Lenda to the top of the tallest tower, so that they can be scarificed. Stephen and Arkron journey to the Veshtaker's castle, but are captured before they can mount a rescue. John, Tikno and the Vesh Warriors attack the pyramid, while Stephen and Arkron are thrown into the dungeon. John and Tikno enter the secret passage in the pyramid, and John manages to destroy the Psi-Damping Transmitter, enabling Elizabeth, Tyso and Lenda to escape from the burning, and Stephen and Arkron to escape from the dungeon.
#24 - Worlds Away, Part 2: Hound of the Night
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1975
Tyso is about to be caught by the hunters, when a Kulthan appears and frightens them away, enabling Tyso to escape. Stephen finds Tyso and carries him back to the hideout, but the Kulthan reappears. Stephen stuns the creatures with his stun-gun, but they discover that the Kulthan is Tikno in disguise. Tikno explains that the hunt is to capture Vesh, and is organised by the Veshtaker. When captured, the Vesh are burned on top of high towers, and the Kulthan then use a matter transporter to take the Vesh to their space-station. John, Stephen and Tikno set off for the pyramid where the Psi-Damping Transmitter is located, but are followed by Arkron, a Vesh Warrior. Arkron returns with Vanyon, his leader, and other warriors, and they shoot John, Stephen and Tikno with crossbows.
#25 - Into the Unknown, Part 2: The Father-Ship
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/1976
Elizabeth jaunts to the spaceship with a small box which acts as a connection to Tim, which they connect to the power system on the ship. Tim tells them that they cannot jaunt back to Earth until they find a solution to the force field, which may be on the father-ship. Arriving at the father-ship, they meet Tirayaan, who informs them that the ship will be dragged into the hole in two days, and that it has been seized by the rebellious Vektaan as part of a plot to take control of the homeworld. Vektaan captures the Tomorrow People, Kwaan and Tirayaan, but John and Stephen offer to help him save the father-ship, and, together with Tim, they work on the bridge controls. Tirayaan admits that he set the ship on its course, and John tells Vektaan that he will save the father-ship if all the prisoners are put onto the shuttlecraft, with enough power to get them back to Earth. Vektaan aggress and allows them to leave in the shuttlecraft. John returns control of the father-ship and jaunts to the shuttlecraft, but Tim's box is destroyed, and they realise that Vektaan has programmed the small ship to fly into the hole.