The silly-season for news is here, and things are getting a bit slack while scholars are at the beach. So here’s an off-topic post that may still interest some Tentaclii readers, though I recognise that 1970s British TV sci-fi is an acquired taste. My mega-re-watch of the best of Doctor Who is ongoing, and as such I was interested to learn of a book-length guide to one of its competitor TV series called The Tomorrow People. I fondly but rather vaguely recall this from my youth, though haven’t seen it in many decades.

The book guide for the series is titled Jaunt: A Viewer’s Guide to The Tomorrow People. First issued in 2013, and now in July 2022 just re-issued in a new “revised and expanded edition” including detailed coverage of the original comic-strip adventures that were run in Look-In.

The cover is a faux emulation of a 1970s second-hand Penguin paperback.

I was also interested to hear of… “the return of the Tomorrow People in a lavish 1990s international co-production”, a TV reboot news of which had completely passed me by. There’s also said to be a modern third series, but it sounds both politically correct and radically changed, being set in a dystopian… “world far removed” from “the original series’ vision”.