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whitehound
Since: Jan, 2016
21st Aug, 2017 08:19:22 PM
Found it. Time Masters, 1982
This is immensely annoying, because I managed to track down this and the other piece I'm asking about three or four years ago, but I've lost the file in which I wrote down their details, so I need to find them again.
The first one is an animated film shown on British TV several times during the 1980s. The film looks rather like a Japanese animé but I believe it is British. A young boy aged about eight is stranded on his onw on a planet where there are mobile plants, one of which I think acts as a boat for him. A party of people on a spaceship are coming to rescue him but there is a lot of political infighting amongst them. Eventually we learn that there is a time loop involved, and that one of the people coming to save the little boy is himself as an adult.