The Wrong End of Time – Episode 1

Production Notes

• The episode is introduced by the then ITN science correspondent Peter Fairley. His introduction is spoken directly to camera before the opening credits.
• The music on the opening title sequence is taken from an earlier part of the stock track Rite de la Tere by Edouard Michael than later episodes use.
• Location recording for the ministry field took place at Burnt Farm near Goff’s Oak in Hertfordshire.
• Denis Quilley wore a greying wig for his role as the present-day Commander Traynor. His ‘normal’ can be seen when he portrays the younger 1940 Traynor.
• The book Simon is seen reading and later loses when he and Liz enter the time barrier is Lavengro by George Borrow.
• The episode contains no less than three references to ‘a tramp over the hill’.
• Traynor quotes Sydney Carlton from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
• The end credits role over a shot of the radar screen.