The Flipside of Dominick Hide
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Seasons | 1
Episodes | 2
avg.Runtime | 90 min
First EP | 1980-12-09
Last EP | 1982-12-14
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide is a British television play first transmitted by the BBC on 9 December 1980 as part of the Play for Today series. Peter Firth stars in the title role as a time traveller from Earth's future who illegally visits the London of 1980 to search for an 'ancestor' and finds a world very different from the one he left behind.
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season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 1980-12-09
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
1980-12-09
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his sterile home, 80s London is filthy and polluted... and yet... it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.
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Another Flip for Dominick
1982-12-14
Two years after his journey into the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor, and is no longer a time-traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?
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“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” – Walt Disney