3.2 A Hitch in Time (1978) ”Totally Claypoled”

Time Babble

This week we dive head first into the sparkling and inviting waters of the Children's Film Foundation.

The Children's Film Foundation was for decades a way for new and established directors and actors at the end of their career, to make films aimed at, and starring kids.

Our film stars Patrick Troughton as the mysterious time travelling inventor, Professor Wagstaff, currently hanging out in an abandoned castle in a public park. We’ve extensively researched and we’re pretty sure this was a unique role for Mr Troughton and sadly he never played a time traveller before or since.

Two school kids ignore the ‘Danger of Death’ sign outside, (and typically everything potentially dangerous about the 1970s) and wander in to see what’s going on. Like the kids, the film pretty much ignores facts, history and continuity, but the kids, Troughton, and the audience have a pretty fun time along the way. Just like Time Babble.

We follow the same characters and their ancestry all the way back to the Stone Age and a rather dodgy looking bear, via that pesky WW2, and all the way back to the now. Although their now is very much the then of 1978. Oh, and the film has an amazing soundtrack, a little bit like a jaunty version of Kraftwerk. But better.

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