Production
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Memorabilia 2003
Cheryl and Spencer’s visit
to the NEC in November.
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Tightrope Micro Site
Dedicated to the 1972 series which starred Spencer and was included
many members of the same production team as Timeslip, including
Ruth Boswell, John Cooper, Ron Francis, Dave Foster and Victor
Pemberton.
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2003 - The Year of the Wake Up
Well, it’s been quite a year of the Official Timeslip
Website… and it was only our FIRST year – imagine
what’s yet to come!
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Return to the Barrier
A write up of the trip back to Goff's Oak back in September.
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Timeslip -The Title Sequences
Timeslip's title sequence is one of those simple yet iconic visuals
that sixties and seventies television is still famous for.
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Timeslip Memories Part One: by Spencer Banks
The serial will always remain something very special
to me. It was my first major role, having only one previous credit
prior to Timeslip -'Germinal' a BBC 2 Classic serial made in 1969...
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Timeslip Memories Part Two: by Bruce Stewart
I was approached in the late 60s by Renee Godard, at that time
Children's producer at ATV, and asked to think about something
that could challenge DOCTOR WHO over on the BBC...
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Location, Location, Location!
Although there was only a modest amount of location work in Timeslip,
what was used, was used to good effect. In fact, in the entire
twenty-six episodes, only three locations were used with only
two of them strictly qualifying as 'locations' in their own right.
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Forward to the Past: Looking for the Timebarrier
by Steve Hardy
Asking people who remember the series what comes immediately to
mind when they think of Timeslip, they usually reply; 'That's
the one where the kids go through the hole in the fence, isn't
it?' So where was St. Oswalds in real life..?
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The Music of Timeslip
There's several things that people always recall of Timeslip but
none evoke the memories of scary cliffhangers and dramatic revelations
more than the series' distinctive theme music. And it often comes
as a surpise when they realise that it is little more than a piece
of record library music and wasn't composed especially for the
series.
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