History Series / TheTomorrowPeople1973

* BBCQuarry

* YearInsideHourOutside: in one episode they encounter a NegativeSpaceWedgie. A ship entering the wedgie immediately exits the way it came it, but with around 8 hours passing for the crew. Inexplicably, the crews' watches stop.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Glenn College becomes one of theser when The Doomsday Men take it over.

* YouCanSayThatAgain: Occurred on a few occasions in the show, each time with someone "saying that again!"

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: ''Homo Superior'' are biologically unable to kill people, so they arm themselves with StunGuns.
* FreeRangeChildren

* HealingHands: Homo Superiors have this power.

* HollywoodScience: In sufficient quantity that Dr Chris Evans should really have thought twice about having his name listed as "Scientific Advisor" in the credits.

* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Tomorrow People were presumably safe when jaunting through hyperspace. If they jaunted into hyperspace without protective gear, their bodies would be annihilated. Additionally, hyperspace was seen as a place where time had no meaning, but you'd return to your own time upon leaving. That is, unless some major temporal screw-up had occurred, which ran the possibility of freezing time temporarily. Note that hyperspace was not instantly lethal. When breaking out, Elizabeth accidentally became stranded in hyperspace. While she was in deadly danger, there was a reasonable amount of time to deduce what had happened to her and mount a rescue.

* MotiveDecay: Jedikiah. In "The Slaves of Jedikiah", the shapeshifting android was not really villainous, but was perpetrating his apparently-evil deeds because he was under orders from a kind alien who mistakenly believed humans to be dangerous and barbaric. In his various reappearances, Jedekiah is simply evil, and obsessed with revenge, conquest, and the eradication of homo superior — and the Tomorrow People already seem to know this to be his natural personality ahead of time.

* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The Galactic Federation, who will spend a lot of time talking about a problem but is reluctant to take action. Due to this one two occasions Timus had to secretly enlist the aid of the Tomorrow People to deal with two specific problems. However at the end of the final story the Federation decides to chance this.

* TimePolice: The Guardians of Time, presumably. The Guardians are a more advanced form of human than homo superior (called either homo novus or homo sapiens temporum), though it isn't exactly clear what their role is, as their appearances all involve them being lured into traps by villains seeking to exploit their ability to facilitate time travel.

* YearInsideHourOutside: in one episode they encounter a NegativeSpaceWedgie. A ship entering the wedgie immediately exits the way it came it, but with a around 8 hours passing for the crew. Inexplicably, the crews' watches stop.

1970s British SpeculativeFiction series created by Roger Damon Price, who also created ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. ''The Tomorrow People'' followed the adventures of a group of ''Homo superior'', [[EvolutionaryLevels the next stage]] [[HumanSubspecies in human evolution]]. The titular Tomorrow People were an {{ensemble|s}} of three to five children and young adults born with [[PsychicPowers special powers]], primarily telepathy and the ability to [[PsychicTeleportation teleport]] or "jaunt". Using these abilities, the Tomorrow People fought to protect earth from home-grown and extraterrestrial menaces, while keeping their own existence secret from world governments that would misuse their powers, awaiting the day when they could (very politely and bloodlessly) take control of the world away from the [[HumansByAnyOtherName "saps"]] (short for ''homo sapiens'').

1970s British SpeculativeFiction series created by Roger Damon Price, who also created ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. ''The Tomorrow People'' followed the adventures of a group of ''Homo Superior'', [[EvolutionaryLevels the next stage]] [[HumanSubspecies in human evolution]]. The titular Tomorrow People were an {{ensemble|s}} of three to five children and young adults born with [[PsychicPowers special powers]], primarily telepathy and the ability to [[PsychicTeleportation teleport]] or "jaunt". Using these abilities, the Tomorrow People fought to protect earth from home-grown and extraterrestrial menaces, while keeping their own existence secret from world governments that would misuse their powers, awaiting the day when they could (very politely and bloodlessly) take control of the world away from the [[HumansByAnyOtherName "saps"]] (short for ''homo sapiens'').

* NotSoDifferent: The SIS and KGB agents in "The Dirtiest Business" don't seem to have that many differences in terms of methods and motives, and the Tomorrow People don't want anything to do with either of them.

''The Tomorrow People'' was {{reviv|al}}ed in the mid 90's with the help of {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} for three seasons. During the TurnOfTheMillennium, Creator/BigFinish produced a series of ''The Tomorrow People'' audio dramas, [[WeMeetAgain reuniting many of the original cast members]]. The audio series has now concluded, although yet ''another'' revival (which is HotterAndSexier than its past incarnations) came about on the CW, but lasted just a season. [[Series/TheTomorrowPeople2013 It has its own page now.]]

1970s British SpeculativeFiction series created by Roger Damon Price, who also created ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. ''The Tomorrow People'' followed the adventures of a group of ''Homo Superior'', [[EvolutionaryLevels the next stage]] [[HumanSubspecies in human evolution]]. The titular Tomorrow People were an {{ensemble|s}} of three to five children and young adults born with [[PsychicPowers special powers]], primarily telepathy and the ability to [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleport]] or "jaunt". Using these abilities, the Tomorrow People fought to protect earth from home-grown and extraterrestrial menaces, while keeping their own existence secret from world governments that would misuse their powers, awaiting the day when they could (very politely and bloodlessly) take control of the world away from the [[HumansByAnyOtherName "saps"]] (short for ''homo sapiens'').

* PsychicPowers: All Tomorrow People are capable of communicating via telepathy and of teleporting, as well as other powers.

* WidgetSeries: Oh ''yes''. A fun thing to do is show an episode or two to someone who can't speak English and gauge their reaction. Odds are it will be confusion or absolute horror.

--> '''Dr. Culix'''': The boy on the bike? He's seen too much. Get him!

* NeverSayDie: Averted, at least in the 70s series.

1970s British SpeculativeFiction series created by Roger Damon Price, who also created ''YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. ''The Tomorrow People'' followed the adventures of a group of ''Homo Superior'', [[EvolutionaryLevels the next stage]] [[HumanSubspecies in human evolution]]. The titular Tomorrow People were an {{ensemble|s}} of three to five children and young adults born with [[PsychicPowers special powers]], primarily telepathy and the ability to [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleport]] or "jaunt". Using these abilities, the Tomorrow People fought to protect earth from home-grown and extraterrestrial menaces, while keeping their own existence secret from world governments that would misuse their powers, awaiting the day when they could (very politely and bloodlessly) take control of the world away from the [[HumansByAnyOtherName "saps"]] (short for ''homo sapiens'').

* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: Years before the Series/DoctorWho revival did it, the 90s remake had an immortal Egyptian villain hide his power-nexus pyramid in the middle of London... as the top of the Canary Wharf Tower.

* PyramidPower: Done in the Nineties revival. The plot is that an immortal Egyptian pharoah is trying to recreate the circumstances required when the stars align to give him great power, which requires him to move a bunch of obelisks all over Europe (supposedly explaining why they were brought to London, Rome etc in the nineteenth century). The protagonists point out that this would mean he would have to have built a central focusing pyramid in the middle of them, in central London...they then look behind them and see the pyramidal top of the Canary Wharf Tower. Note this was years before it was used as the Torchwood Tower in Doctor Who.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping / FakeNationality: Nigel Rhodes, who was English and playing the evidently [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] Andrew Forbes, often experienced this. There was one episode where Andrew [[{{Fauxreigner}} faked an American accent]]. That often slipped too.

* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Tyso Boswell, along with his sister Evergreen, his unseen brother Sam and his parents. Though this is open to interpretation due to the Boswells' blond hair and thick [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents West Country]] accents, which ''could'' make them representative of UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers.

* VideoInsideFilmOutside: 1970s version only.The 1990s version was shot entirely on film.

It is almost impossible to discuss ''The Tomorrow People'' without comparing it to Classic ''Series/DoctorWho'', to which it was, essentially, {{ITV}}'s answer.[[note]]''Series/{{Primeval}}'' being their weapon against the new ''Doctor Who'' series.[[/note]]

''The Tomorrow People'' was {{reviv|al}}ed in the mid 90's with the help of {{Nickelodeon}} for three seasons. During the TurnOfTheMillennium, Creator/BigFinish produced a series of ''The Tomorrow People'' audio dramas, [[WeMeetAgain reuniting many of the original cast members]]. The audio series has now concluded, although yet ''another'' revival (which is HotterAndSexier than its past incarnations) came about on the CW, but lasted just a season. [[Series/TheTomorrowPeople2013 It has its own page now.]]

* CaliforniaDoubling: "Worlds Away", on arriving for the first time on an alien planet, one character warns the others, "This isn't just some wood in Surrey," which is LampshadeHanging by the writers — the scene was indeed filmed in a wood in the British county of Surrey.
* {{Cancellation}} / CutShort: The original [[TheSeventies 70s]] series ended with the four-part ''War of the Empires'' when a proper SeriesFinale was still in the writing stages. This was the result of the [[TVStrikes 1979 ITV Strike]] - the very same strike which caused Series/DoctorWho's ratings to go through the roof - with many electrical personnel walking out. The 90s revival and the audio dramas were also cancelled while more material was being planned.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The group's 'sap' friends Ginge and Chris, from Seasons 1 and 2 respectively, are not heard from or seen again after their respective appearances.
** The Tomorrow People [[PutOnABus also go through this themselves]]. Kenny and Carol simply vanish from Season 2 and Season 3 respectively ([[AllThereInTheManual apparently they were sent away to the Galactic Trig]]) to be replaced by Elizabeth, and Tyso and Stephen disappear between seasons 4 and 5 (which was apparently due to ExecutiveMeddling since the powers wanted Mike to be the 'star' of ''The Tomorrow People'').

* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The Tomorrow People were presumably safe when jaunting through hyperspace. If they jaunted into hyperspace without protective gear, their bodies would be annihilated. Additionally, hyperspace was seen as a place where time had no meaning, but you'd return to your own time upon leaving. That is, unless some major temporal screw-up had occurred, which ran the possibility of freezing time temporarily.
** Note that hyperspace was not instantly lethal. When breaking out, Elizabeth accidentally became stranded in hyperspace. While she was in deadly danger, there was a reasonable amount of time to deduce what had happened to her and mount a rescue.

* KarmaHoudini: None of the villains in the first 90s story (Colonel Masters, Professor Galt, Lady Mulvaney) seem to receive any sort of punishment for kidnapping and unethical experiments.
** The 70s series has Spidron from "The Vanishing Earth" and the KGB agents from "The Dirtiest Business". Also, the US President from "War of the Empires" receives no punishment for attacking the Tomorrow People and opening fire on the Thargon fleet, an act which almost gets Earth destroyed.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In the 70s series, Timus from the Galactic Federation and ''the Prime Minister'' on Earth. In the 90s series, General Damon.

* ShoutOut: In the pilot for the '90s remake, the cartoon show that Lisa is watching is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.
** And in "The Culex Experiment", Kevin is playing ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''.

* SpaceClothes: Very tacky belts worn to enhance jaunting abilities, as well as a low-budget, not-at-all-bulky space suit. If they jaunted directly into hyperspace, the suit would keep them in one piece.

* BizarroEpisode: "A Man For Emily", ''without a doubt''. While the theme of [[LadyLand female dominance]] had potential to produce an interesting and richly-textured episode, the episode was filled with {{camp}} Western movie [[SatireParodyPastiche pastiches]], [[RecycledInSpace inexplicable settings]], [[LargeHam overexaggerated performances]] and a [[{{Squick}} strange plot]] where John is recruited [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar to become Emily's 'manboy']]. These factors make "A Man For Emily" the most infamous serial in the series' output, especially comparing it to more serious fare such as "The Blue and the Green".
** The primary reason that this episode attracts so much attention is the fact that it guest stars a young PeterDavison in his first television role.

* ActorAllusion: The first 90s story features two police officers named Young and Holloway, named after Nicholas Young and Michael Holloway from the 70s show.

* HideYourPregnancy / AbsenteeActor: Elizabeth Adare was [[CommutingOnABus absent for most of the 1978 season]] due to her pregnancy, making her only appearances through the Lab's monitor.