The Flipside of Dominick Hide

1980 - 1982

9th December 1980

Episode 1

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from London in the year 2130, is studying the city's transport system of 1980. Breaking the rules, he lands his craft to seek out his great-grandfather. Compared to his sterile home, 80s London is filthy and polluted... and yet... it exudes an excitement that soon draws him in.

Another Flip for Dominick

14th December 1982

Episode 2

Two years after his journey into the past, Dominick Hide has been promoted to instructor, and is no longer a time-traveller. Then one of his pupils, Pyrus Bonnington, goes missing during a visit to 1982 London. Hide must track him down and prevent Pyrus damaging the past, but will the temptation to re-visit his own history be too strong to resist?

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Peter Firth•Caroline Langrishe

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The Flipside of Dominick Hide is a British television play first transmitted by the BBC 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.

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Peter Firth

Dominick Hide

Caroline Langrishe

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