pub: DVD: Fremantle/Revelation PAR 61167. 345 minutes. Price: £34.99 (UK). stars: Elizabeth Adare, Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughn-Clarke and Philip Gilbert with Chris Chittel, Richard Speight, Brian Stanion, Stanley Lebor, William Relton and Lee Wan.

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As I commented a couple months back, as with Series 1, on these stories when they were first released on video and now the nice people at Revelation have given me an opportunity to look at the DVD version.

You should be able to link into the story reviews elsewhere on the website, which will allow me to spend time here on the extras, the most important being that of the audio commentaries given by Nick Young, Peter Vaughn-Clark and for one episode, Philip Gilbert and the rest with Elizabeth Adare (a surname I've now learnt to pronounce as 'A-Dairy' rather than the phonetic 'A-Dare') even if the box credits say otherwise.



Again, it would have been nice to have had a few photographs of them together as they are today taken at these sessions for posterity but that's something we'll have to live without. Liz Adare's voice is still as lilting as it was nearly 30 years ago and added to the boys, she has been insightful as them as to what it was like to have been filmed and has an equally wicked sense of humour.

Nick Young shows some insight into the technical aspects of the show even if he can't tell Skylab from Mir when it comes to space stations. Peter Vaughn-Clarke is still very much the clown although Young has the drier wit.

Saying that, Liz Adare's quips shows she can be as bad them on occasion. Having heard the commentaries of the later seasons, I did wonder if she might take offence at some of the innuendo but based on this, it's pretty obvious that they treat each other as very much old friends even if they haven't seen each other in years.

Other extras are the usual biographies and photo-files. With the transition from video to DVD likely to really stick in the next couple years, you're more likely to pick up this set rather than the video version. If you're a fan of 'The Tomorrow People' and want to re-live your youth or show your children what you used to enjoy, then you should be picking this up and adding it to your collection.

GF Willmetts