The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980)

Directed by

Alan Gibson

Genre

science fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man from the future travels back to 1980 London to find an ancestor. He discovers the past is stranger than he expected. The story ends with a time loop twist.

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What happens

"The Flipside of Dominick Hide" is a British television play first transmitted on BBC1 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. The story concludes with a plot twist involving a causal loop, a popular concept in time-travel fiction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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