A mixture of Doctor Who and Catweazle in this Children's Film Foundation production.
It was written by the legendary TEB Clarke who wrote some of the Ealing classic comedies including an Oscar for The Lavender Hill Mob.
The centrepiece is former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. He plays eccentric Professor Adam Wagstaff (Patrick Troughton) who has created a haphazard time machine that he operates from an ancient castle.
Just in time to help him out are two local schoolkids Paul (Michael McVey) and Fiona (Pheona McLellan) who respond to his cries for help when the professor finds himself trapped.
As the kids weigh less they are ideal for his time travel experiments. Paul ends up back to his class earlier in the morning when he was late for his history lesson. He is chastised for his tardiness by history teacher Sniffy Kemp (Jeff Rawle.)
They later bounce around in time, and each occasion their nemesis is some ancestor of Sniffy Kemp.
Fun and amusing, it is a light knockabout squarely aimed at kids. It might have helped if the story had a bit more depth but it gave me more of a Catweazle vibe.
It was written by the legendary TEB Clarke who wrote some of the Ealing classic comedies including an Oscar for The Lavender Hill Mob.
The centrepiece is former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton. He plays eccentric Professor Adam Wagstaff (Patrick Troughton) who has created a haphazard time machine that he operates from an ancient castle.
Just in time to help him out are two local schoolkids Paul (Michael McVey) and Fiona (Pheona McLellan) who respond to his cries for help when the professor finds himself trapped.
As the kids weigh less they are ideal for his time travel experiments. Paul ends up back to his class earlier in the morning when he was late for his history lesson. He is chastised for his tardiness by history teacher Sniffy Kemp (Jeff Rawle.)
They later bounce around in time, and each occasion their nemesis is some ancestor of Sniffy Kemp.
Fun and amusing, it is a light knockabout squarely aimed at kids. It might have helped if the story had a bit more depth but it gave me more of a Catweazle vibe.