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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Revenge of Jedikiah, Part 1: Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/1975
Jedikiah, a shape-changing android believed to have been destroyed, was rescued and sent to ancient Egypt by an alien race. He was placed in a tomb and remained there for 500 years until it was reopened by Professor Cawston and Professor Johnston. Freed Jedikiah has one thing on his mind: revenge on the Tomorrow People.
#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 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - The Blue and the Green, Part 4: Cuckoo in the Nest
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/1974
John returns to the cellar, where his powers are negated. Stephen attempts to rescue John, but his stun gun has no effect on Robert, and he is forced to flee. Chris and two friends also mount an unsuccessful attempt. Chris later follows the mysterious boy, but is warned off by a policeman. However he manages to retrieve some books, including volume four of �The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire�, which Robert has dropped. Taking them to the Lab, Chris shows Tim, who realises that the Roman Empire also broke into two factions: blue and green. Robert instructs his grandfather to tell the police that he has gone missing, then leaves with John. Attempting to help Elizabeth at the school, Chris is instead caught by the police, who charge him with Robert's disappearance, and take him to the shop to look for the boy. When they get to the cellar, all of the pictures have gone, as has John.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Castle of Fear, Part 2: Fighting Spirit
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1978
The Tomorrow People talk to Doctor Mayer about the monster, but she denies that anyone has seen a ghost; but when Angus tells them about seeing his ghost, Doctor Mayer notes that Andrew was with them when they saw the monster. After Gail tries unsuccessfully to find Andrew, Angus goes to the cellar and finds the boy locked up. Andrew creates an illusion that frightens Angus into unlocking the door, but Bruce tries to stop Angus and they are both injured in the confusion. They are found by John and Elizabeth, who take them back to the Lab, leaving Hsui Tai and Mike to check the rest of the hotel. Andrew creates more illusions to escape from Mike, who is knocked unconscious. Andrew leaves the hotel on a bicycle. Angus thinks that his son may hide in a tower near the hotel, and as the Tomorrow People and Bruce arrive there, Andrew creates an illusion of a band of Scots warriors. The Tomorrow People create a group of Redcoats to counter the attack. After the battle Mike jaunts to the top of the tower and persuades Andrew to join them, and Bruce allows Andrew to create ghosts at the hotel to attract visitors.
#17 - Castle of Fear, Part 1: Ghosts and Monsters
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1978
At a hotel near Loch Ness, the barman, Angus MacDuff sees a ghost. At the same time, the Tomorrow People see the ghost in their dreams, and think it may be another Homo Superior attempting to communicate. At the Forbes hotel, the proprietor�s son Andrew suggests to his father, Bruce that they advertise the place as haunted, and he shows him that he can create a ghost. But Bruce thinks that the ghosts are the Devil�s work, and warns Andrew not to make them again. Andrew talks to some American researchers, lead by Dr. Gail Mayer, who are staying at the hotel while they look for the Loch Ness Monster. Andrew creates an illusion of the Monster in the Loch in front of the researchers; the image is also seen by John, Elizabeth, Mike and Hsui Tai. The researchers are very excited and contact the media. The Tomorrow People see the reports, and theorise that a member of the Loch Ness research team may be breaking out and telepathically transmitting images. John, Elizabeth, Mike and Hsui Tai jaunt to the hotel. Bruce is furious when he finds out about his son�s creation of the monster, and locks the boy in the cellar.
#18 - The Heart of Sogguth, Part 2: Devil in Disguise
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/1977
Jake tells John to stop Elizabeth telling anyone what happened, and gives him a knife. John jaunts back to the Lab and tries to kill Elizabeth, but his instinct not to kill breaks Jake's control. Mike and Jake go to the Hearts of Sogguth headquarters, but during a strange ceremony a voice warns Jake that Mike is different. Elizabeth finds an old book that predicts that Lord Sogguth will return when a million people hear the beat of his heart, and that he would destroy the Lords of the Heavens. Elizabeth thinks that the television broadcast will reach more than a million and the Lords of Heaven could be the Galactic Trig. The Hearts of Sogguth capture Mike, and something comes out of the sacred drum and takes control of him. When contacted telepathically by John and Elizabeth, Mike lies, saying that he is at home, and that the television programmed is the next day. John and Elizabeth jaunt to the Hearts of Sogguth headquarters to try to destroy the drum, but are discovered by Jake, who makes John attack Elizabeth. Jake tries to stab Elizabeth, but she jaunts back to the Lab. The next day Elizabeth jaunts to the television studio just before the broadcast; John tells Jake of her arrival, and persuaded Jake to let him stop her with a stun gun. Elizabeth is up on the gantry with a laser blaster, ready to destroy the drum, but is stopped by John before she can fire. Mike plays the drum in order to release Lord Sogguth, but Elizabeth manages to destroy the instrument. Sogguth is defeated, and, as he retreats back to the centre of the Earth, he takes Jake's soul with him, leaving behind just his skeleton.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Thargon Menace, Part 1: Unexpected Guests
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/1978
When a small spaceship crashes into the Pacific Ocean region on Earth it causes an Earthquake, which is felt in the Tomorrow People�s Lab. The spaceship is piloted by two Thargons, Flyn and Sula, who have escaped from the fleet�s main �Thick Ship� in a short-range �Slim Ship�, which they have deliberately crashed into the Earth in order to bury it, and so escape detection from space. Believing the crash to have been caused by a meteorite, Tim traces the impact point to the island of Tarpin, part of the Melosean chain of islands. Mike and Hsui Tai jaunt to the island, but when Flyn and Sula decide to raise the ship to the surface, Hsui Tai is blinded by the engines. Back at the Lab, John repairs Hsui Tai�s eyes. A military airplane spots the �Slim Ship�, and its pilot reports back to the dictator General Papa Minn, who orders Major Marcos to investigate with troops. John, Mike and Hsui Tai return to the island and meet Flyn, Sula and Thing, the ship�s computer, and are told by the aliens that they are on the run from the ruthless Thargon Overlords for opposing the massacre of their slaves. Flyn warns the Tomorrow People that the Thargon Overlords will destroy the Earth when they find Flyn and Sula there.
#21 - War of the Empires, Part 4: All in the Mind
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/1979
Earth faces danger from two directions: the Thargons and the Sorsons. The Tomorrow People must somehow defeat them both to save the planet.
#22 - War of the Empires, Part 3: Standing Alone
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/1979
The President imprisons Mike and Hsui Tai. The Sorson General, Vishishnu, begins training American pilots, including Evans, so that they can defend the solar system. Andrew jaunts to the Oval Office to rescue his friends, but is captured after the President uses the Barluminite raygun on him. But Andrew is only pretending: he ducked when the gun was fired, and he uses matter transporting bands to return to the Lab with Mike and Hsui Tai. Andrew suggests threatening the Trig with a Sorson spaceship in order to rescue John, and they jaunt onto one of the spaceships. Eliciting the aid of Evans, they travel to the Trig, where an artificial intelligence refuses to release John until his case has been heard. Evans opens fire, and the Chaircreature releases him. The Tomorrow People return to the Lab, where Tim, defying instructions from the Federation, informs them that their membership has been suspended. Meanwhile, the Sorson General is furious that Evans has taken a ship and destroyed other Sorson ships, and tells the President that his fleet will depart, leaving the planet at the mercy of a Thargon fleet heading for Earth.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Living Skins, Part 2: Cold War
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1978
The Tomorrow People use a cold virus to battle the parasitic Ballboids.
#25 - The Living Skins, Part 1: A Harmless Fashion
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1978
The Ballboids have come to Earth, and are disguising themselves as trendy jumpsuits. The harmless fashion is really their way of easily taking over the minds and bodies of the Earth's population.