"The Flipside of Dominick Hide" | |
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Play for Today episode | |
Episode no. | Series 11 Episode 8 |
Directed by | Alan Gibson |
Written by | Jeremy Paul, Alan Gibson, from an idea by Alan Gibson |
Original air date | 9 December 1980 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
"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.