“Timeslip” was a 1970 ITC series created to be that network’s answer to the BBC&rs

“Timeslip” was a 1970 ITC series created to be that network’s answer to the BBC’s Doctor Who. In it, two teenagers from modern England discover a portal where they can slip back to the year 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain. They go through the timeslip again, only to end up in different eras, including two different possible futures of either an Ice Age or a boiling planet, encountering future men who use cloning to be immortal. It only lasted one season, perhaps because it was too similar to Doctor Who, which by that point was getting creatively exhausted in its sixth season, and ended up changing up the entire series’ premise in the seventh season (little did they know how long it would end up lasting). ITC was far more successful a few years later with the Tomorrow People, which had a much stronger and distinct sense of identity from Doctor Who, which cast a very big shadow. Now, I’m not one of these people who believe everything has to be connected together, and who come up with really crackpot ways this or that series intersect, but Timeslip is different, it absolutely begs to be retroactively identified as a Doctor Who spinoff. It almost doesn’t make sense as a standalone, too many similarities. Combining it with the world of Doctor Who would make more sense, not less. Interestingly, Timeslip was revived in the 2010s as a radio drama, and the original cast recreated their famous photo shoot with the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs:  -- source link

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