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

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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