The Tomorrow People 4:1: One Law
01/07/2004 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: DVD: Fremantle/Revelation PAR 61145. 70 minutes. Price: £15.99 (UK)) stars: Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughn Clarke, Elizabeth Adare, Dean Lawrence, Michael Holloway and Philip Gilbert with Tim Barrett, Patrick McAlinney, Harold Kasket, John Hollis and Norman Mitchell. Buy The Tomorrow People in the USA - or Buy The Tomorrow People in the UK  check out website: www.revfilms.com
Another
season. Another Tomorrow Person. This is an establishment story
for the new character, Mike Bell (played by then highly promoted
drummer/pop star adolescent Michael Holloway) with a knack for opening
locks being drawn into the underworld when such a talent has its
uses for getting into banks. Bell also has the habit of leaving
his accomplices locked in safes as he knows they are the bad, albeit
stupid, guys.
Back at the lab, the Tomorrow People arrive back
on Earth, having been out at the Galactic Trig since the end of
Season 3. They in turn want to track down and recruit Bell and stop
his apparent larcenous ways. Matters aren’t helped that the lead
villain, Lord Dunning (you’re supposed to repeatedly say his name
in louder tones by the way) has to be released rather than compromise
the Tomorrow People’s existence to the world. One law for the rich
and one for poor...
As the voice-overs by actors Nick Young and Peter
Vaughn Clarke have indicated, ‘The Tomorrow People’ was a popular
show even if its creator/writer, Roger Price, was becoming tired
of it.
Price, also having a disrespect for authority figures,
invariably made fun of them like the police in his scripts and was
playing this up to camp elements even more so here. The unfortunate
consequence of this was to reduce this series down to somewhat less
than the standard of the earlier seasons.
From an adult POV, this does border a little on cringe-making
and as actor Holloway points out, the series was made on a tiny
budget for the effects they used.
Fans are going to love matching up continuity errors
caused by outside recording and interiors being filmed/videoed months
apart. From my perspective, it’s also interesting to see some of
our character actors from long ago working in this period, let alone
remembering their names.
GF Willmetts 
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