The WORST episodes of The Tomorrow People
Every episode of The Tomorrow People ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#3 - A Man for Emily, Part 3: Shotgun Wedding
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/30/1975
John contacts the Prime Minister, who authorises Elmer�s release. John takes Elmer to the doozlum pin, but Elmer refuses to go back to the ship, instead sending John. The Momma and Emily celebrate John's arrival, fitting him with Tickling Boots. Meanwhile, Elmer is re-arrested, and Elizabeth asks for his custody. The Ship tells John that he is to be the pair-mate for Emily, and that his telepathic powers have been blocked. Elmer arrives at the Lab, and tells Elizabeth that his people live on the Ship for many generations, and that when the next generation is been born, the Momma eats the father. On the Ship John is forced to wait on Emily, but when she leaves the room, he jams the waste disposal hatch open, allowing the air to escape; he then tells the ship to remove his tickling boots. The ship informs him that their original home planet was destroyed by nuclear weapons; the ship was made to allow some to escape and search for a new planet. It has decided that no planet is suitable, and the search must continue. John persuades the ship to switch-off as the search has been completed, and then he pilots it to Earth. The Momma becomes a fish shopkeeper, Emily a landlady in a pub, and Elmer a traffic warden.
#4 - A Man for Emily, Part 2: Here We Go Round the Doozlum
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/23/1975
John and Stephen jaunt back to the Lab as the police arrive. Elizabeth tells the Momma that Elmer has been put in jail, and she talks to the Ship; it tells her that if Elmer is not returned within one day the Earth will be destroyed. Elizabeth returns to the Lab, where John formulates a plan to break Elmer out of the police station. Tyso takes some bees into the police station, and everyone flees, enabling them to release Elmer. Elizabeth and Stephen take him to where they think the doozlum pin might be, but Stephen accidentally steps on it, and is transported back to the ship. He jaunts back to Earth with the doozlum pin, which Elmer uses, and then he and Elizabeth return to the Lab. John jaunts to the Ship to check that Elmer has got back safely, but Emily takes a liking to him, and he only just escapes. The Momma sends Elmer back to Earth, he instead goes to the pub and is arrested. The Momma contacts the Tomorrow People, demanding that they return Elmer, or the Earth would be destroyed.
#5 - The Doomsday Men, Part 2: The Burning Sword
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/22/1974
Stephen, who was a schoolboy fencing champion, is able to disarm the boys. He is told that Operation Silver Thread is to happen the next day, and is to involve the Damocles space-station. One of the crew of the Damocles, Lee Wan, has an accident whilst working outside the space-station, and is blasted into space. John, Stephen and Elizabeth use a matter transporter to take Chris's transit van into space. They rescue Lee Wan, and take him back to the Lab. Stephen returns to the school, and that night is initiated into the Doomsday Men. Operation Silver Thread begins: General McLelland and his troops arrive at the Damocles in a space ship. Pretending to be the relief crew, they seize control of the station.
#6 - A Rift in Time, Part 3: From Little Acorns...
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1974
Gaius spares Stephen's life. Stephen meets Cotus, another trainee who is due to be killed in horse trials. That night John, Elizabeth and Chris break into the gladiator school, where they hear a steam engine, sixteen-hundred years before it should have been invented. Peter suspects that Gaius is responsible for the time warp. Chris manages to free Stephen, Peter and Cotus, and Peter attempts to arrest Gaius, but he escapes in a Time Pump. The trainee gladiators are released just before the Time Pump explodes, and the Tomorrow People return to the Twentieth Century. But the Lab is not there, instead, they are in a futuristic base populated by ape-like creatures. Cotus returns to the gladiator school and begins to repair the steam engine.
#7 - Secret Weapon, Part 2: Not Quite a Sleeping Beauty
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/5/1975
Prof. Cawston arranges for Stephen to demonstrate his abilities to Col. Masters and Tricia, but the latter is aware that Stephen is deliberately making mistakes. Stephen goes undercover at a hostel planning to allow Col. Masters to kidnap him. Despite knowing that it is a set-up, Tricia and Masters take the Stephen, injecting him with a drug to render him unconscious, and the professor. Back at the research centre, Prof. Cawston is shown Tyso and Stephen connected to life support machines and drugged by Synaptol. The professor is tasked with reviving them, while preventing them from jaunting. Tricia takes an unconscious Prof. Cawston back to his office, planting bugs and a video camera on him before he awakes. The professor comes to and calls John and Elizabeth, telling them that he has found Stephen and Tyso.
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#8 - A Rift in Time, Part 4: Rise of the Roman Empire
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/1974
John, Stephen, Elizabeth and Chris discover that the Roman Empire never ended. The Romans developed advanced technology, which enabled them to rule the world, aided by their ape-servants from the planet Trista. John, Stephen, Elizabeth and Chris return to ancient Britain, but their conversation has been overheard by Gaius, who follows them to the gladiator school. They destroy the remains of the steam engine, but they and Cotus are all captured by Gaius. Cotus tries to stop them from being killed, and is knocked-out by one of Gaius' guards. Cotus loses his memory, and Gaius and his guards all disappear. Time has been restored to its correct path.
#9 - A Man for Emily, Part 1: The Fastest Gun
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/16/1975
A spaceship arrives in orbit around the Earth, containing the Momma, Emily and Elmer, members of a matriarchal society. Based on television signals, they believe that Earth is like a wild west film. Tim tracks the ship into orbit, and John and Elizabeth jaunt near to it to investigate. The Momma tells Elmer to go to Earth to get fresh food supplies. When the Ship stuns and captures Elizabeth, John jaunts back to the Lab. Elizabeth awakens, and is accepted as an equal by the Momma and Emily. On Earth, shoots a shopkeeper when he is collecting food. Tim intercepts police reports, and Stephen jaunts to the shop, using his telekinesis to heal the proprietor. Elmer finds a pub, treating it like a western saloon. Elizabeth discovers that Elmer must return to his place of arrival, where the doozlum pin is located; she also finds out that the Ship controls the people on board. John and Stephen jaunt to the pub, but are unable to transport Elmer away, and the police arrive.
#10 - The Doomsday Men, Part 3: Run Rabbit Run
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/29/1974
John, Stephen and Elizabeth decide to try to re-capture the Damocles. Lee Wan tells them of a dead man's switch that can launch nuclear missiles held aboard the station. John takes Lee Wan's space suit, and floats past the Damocles, pretending to be the dead astronaut. Looking through an observation port, he sees that the dead man�s switch is in use. The Doomsday Men transmit their demands to the United Nations, who postpone the signing of the peace treaty. Meanwhile, Stephen and the boys at the school go on a cross-country run. While Tim matches the voice from the Damocles with that of General McLelland, Stephen sees Douglas being kidnapped. He tries to help, but is knocked unconscious.
#11 - A Rift in Time, Part 2: Turn of the Thumb
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/1974
Stephen is caught in a time trap. While John attempts to make another Time Disc, Stephen meets a Guardian of Time called Zenon, Peter's grandfather. He frees Stephen and warns him not to build another Time Disc, as its user could be lost in eternity; Peter is trapped in Roman times, and Zenon gives Stephen five Time Discs so that the Tomorrow People can try to rescue him. Stephen arrives in the Lab just in time to stop John using his new Time Disc. Later, Professor Garner tells them that the vase came from a gladiator school in Silchester, run by a ruthless man named Gaius. John, Stephen, Elizabeth and Chris use the Discs return to ancient Roman Britain. They �sell� Stephen to the gladiator school, but then discover that their telepathic abilities have disappeared. Stephen is locked in a dungeon with Peter, who thinks that someone is transmitting a telepathy-inhibiting radiation. After Gaius selects Stephen to be tested by fighting, John, Elizabeth and Chris try to buy him back, but Gaius refuses; Elizabeth thinks Gaius knows they are telepaths. Stephen is defeated in combat.
#12 - Secret Weapon, Part 1: Found and Lost
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/26/1975
Prof. Cawston discovers that a gypsy boy named Tyso is about to break-out, and arranges to show him to the military. While attempting to contact Tyso, Stephen sees through his eyes, and recognises Cawston. He jaunts to the professor's office, but he refuses to help. Later, at the demonstration, Tyso�s powers are watched by Col. Masters and Tricia Conway. Prof. Cawston subsequently contacts the Tomorrow People, telling them that Tyso had disappeared. John, Stephen and Elizabeth jaunt to Tyso's caravan, where they are told by Tyso�s mother that his father had sold him to Col. Masters. The trio then arrive at Cawston's office, where the professor tells them that the colonel wanted him to join his research group. However, Trish, a telepath, has read the professor's mind and warned Masters about Stephen and Elizabeth. John realises that they must find Tyso within two to three days, otherwise the strain of breaking-out will kill him.
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#13 - The Doomsday Men, Part 1: Dressed to Kill
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/1974
Stephen goes under-cover to investigate a military organisation called the "Doomsday Men". The leader�s grandson attends Glen College, which Stephen discovers is a training ground for Doomsday Men, and that its head, General McLelland, is planning a suicide mission. After Stephen is asked to join the organisation by Douglas, he discovers that the mission, "Operation Silver Thread", is to prevent the signing of a peace treaty. Stephen is summoned to the gym, where he has to fight several boys with a sabre.
#14 - War of the Empires, Part 2: Contact!
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/1979
Elizabeth returns to the Lab, just as General Vishishnu and his Sorson fleet enter Earth�s atmosphere; one ship lands near the White House and the Sorson representative promises to help the President defend the planet, and gives him a Barluminite raygun to stop the Tomorrow People interfering without harming them. John and Elizabeth jaunt to the Galactic Trig to discuss the Sorson landing on Earth, but the committee�s lack of interest angers John, and he is charged with contempt by the chairman, arrested, and sent to the Proctor Detention Centre with his telepathic powers removed. Mike and Hsui Tai jaunt to the White House, but the President accuses them working for an alien power and withholding advanced technology, and shoots Mike.
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#15 - One Law, Part 3: Which Prohibits Them Equally from Stealing Bread
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/1976
Mike hears the commotion, and tricks his guard into firing his gun, alerting the inspector, who releases them. John tells Mike and Burke that they cannot prosecute Dunning as it would draw attention to Mike's ability. Stephen teaches Mike how to jaunt, but Mike is still upset about Dunning, and goes to see him, offering to go into partnership with him. Stephen sees Mike getting out of Dunning's Rolls Royce, and brings him to the Lab, but he refuses to talk to the Tomorrow People, and jaunts away. However, John has planted a bugging device on the Rolls Royce. Mike arrives at the American Union bank, and opens the door, allowing Lord Dunning and Thwaites to enter. On a tip-off, Inspector Burke follows them in, and tries to arrest them, but Thwaites threatens to shoot Mike. But Mike jaunts, and the Inspector faints. Following the tracking signal, John, Stephen and Elizabeth jaunt to the vault and capture Lord Dunning and Thwaites. Mike joins the Tomorrow People.
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#16 - Secret Weapon, Part 3: Whose Side Are You On, Professor?
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1975
Elizabeth jaunts to Prof. Cawston's office, watched by Col. Masters and Tricia. She gives the professor a ring with a homing device in it, but he is kidnapped by Masters before he can use it. When John and Elizabeth investigate, they narrowly escape an explosion, as the colonel has set the ring to self-destruct. Cawston is hypnotised and interrogated by the colonel, and reveals information about the Tomorrow People. Col. Masters wakes Tyso and tells him to contact the Tomorrow People telepathically. John and Elizabeth arrive at Col. Master's office in the Experimental Weapons Establishment, and stun him and Tricia. Cawston shows them where the antidote for the Synaptrol is, but Tricia comes round and hits them all with the drug. John manages to jaunt to the Lab, but then collapses. Col. Masters revives Elizabeth, and tells her to help them or Stephen and Tyso will die.
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#17 - Achilles Heel, Part 1: A Room at the Inn
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1978
A pair of odd aliens arrive on Earth with the purpose of mining a rare mineral, which can suppress telepathic powers.
#18 - The Blue and the Green, Part 5: The Swarming Season
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/4/1974
But Chris escapes, locking the policemen and Robert's grandfather in the cellar. Robert reveals to John that he is an alien Denagelee, but was born on Earth from an egg. When hatching, his species require aggressive energy to complete the transformation; the destruction of the Roman Empire was caused when his mother hatched - this time there will be many thousand of his race hatching. John persuades Robert to release him, so that the Tomorrow People can try to find a safe way for the aliens to hatch. As the hatching begins, Stephen suggests that if they could use a giant stun gun in space to put everyone to sleep - their REM state could provide the energy needed by the Denagelee, without hurting anyone. John, Stephen and Elizabeth collect the parts needed for the gun, and take them to the Watchdog satellite to assemble. Once activated, the stun gun sends everyone to sleep, allowing them to dream the violence the Denagelee require. The aliens leave Earth, agreeing never to return. John, Stephen and Elizabeth return home, and Stephen erases the memories of the policemen, who set Chris free.
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#19 - A Rift in Time, Part 1: Vase of Mystery
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/1974
John and Stephen both share strange dreams of Peter, the Time Guardian, running through a forest, and showing them a vase. The two of them look through thousands of pictures of vases, eventually finding Peter�s, which is owned by Professor Cawston, and looked after by Professor Garner. Stephen tricks Professor Gamer into bringing the vase to him. He grabs its lid, and jaunts back to the Lab with it. The lid has strange markings which are designs for a Neutron Interton. The Tomorrow People build the device: a small disc. Nothing happens when Chris and Elizabeth pick it up, but when Stephen picks it up he disappears.
#20 - The Doomsday Men, Part 4: The Shuttlecock
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/6/1974
Stephen is found by his classmates, and taken back to the school. Douglas has willingly gone with the kidnappers to an old deserted windmill, and when one of the teachers, Dr. Laird takes some spare clothes to him, Stephen and Paul, one of the schoolboys, hide in the back of his car. But Dr. Laird captures them, and is about to shoot them when Stephen activates his jaunting belt, taking Paul and Douglas back to the Lab with him. Tim re-educates the two boys, showing them how terrible war actually is, and they decide to help. Dressed in Lee Wan's space suit, John drifts up to the space-station, and sees General McLelland at the dead man's switch. Douglas, Stephen and Lee Wan jaunt into the space-station, but in the confrontation, the General lets go of the handle. They are unable to stop the commencement of the launch countdown, but Douglas throws his bagpipes into the artificial gravity machinery that makes the living quarters rotate, causing the whole station to spin. The missiles fire harmlessly into the sun.
#21 - 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.
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#23 - The Thargon Menace, Part 2: Playing with Fire
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/26/1978
Flyn and Sula offer to build a Ripper Ray to defend the Earth, but the Tomorrow People decline. John and Hsui Tai return to the Lab while Mike stays with Flyn and Sula. But Major Marcos arrives and knocks Mike unconscious. Meanwhile, the Galactic Federation have found the two thick ships. Flyn and Sula accompany the Major to see General Papa Minn. John jaunts to the Thargon thick ship to confront the Captain, who tells him that there are no slaves and no Overlords on their planet, and that Flyn and Sula are criminals. Flyn and Sula offer to show General Papa Minn how to build a Ripper Ray and use it to rule the Earth. After Mike regains consciousness he is told by Thing that the Thargon Overlords have re-captured Flyn and Sula, and so he returns to the Lab. Flyn, Sula and the General return to the slim ship, and the two aliens begin building the Ripper Ray. The Tomorrow People return to the slim ship but are seen by soldiers. John and Mike jaunt back to the Lab, but Hsui Tai is shot. Flyn, Sula and the General prepare to launch the slim ship so that the General can deliver his ultimatum, but John and Mike rescue Hsui Tai just before the slim ship lifts off, its blast destroying the island. The General forces Flyn and Sula to allow him to broadcast his demands, and to fire the Ripper Ray. The blast is detected by the Thargon thick ship, which heads for Earth.
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#24 - 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.
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#25 - 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.