The Tomorrow People

Membership: John, Carol, Kenny, Stephen Jameson, Elizabeth, Tyso Boswell, Tricia Conway, Mike Bell, Hsui Tai, Andrew Forbes, Elena, Paul, Alison, Robert Mitchell, Lilith, James;
(1990s group) Adam Newman, Lisa Davies, Kevin Wilson, Megabyte, Amy Jackson, Jade Weston

Purpose: To protect humanity

Affiliations: Galactic Trig

Enemies: Jedikiah, Thargons

Base of Operations: The Lab, hidden inside a disused Tube station, London

First Appearance: The Tomorrow People "The Slaves of Jedikiah", 1973

History: In the 1970's British television suggested that humanity was about to experience the next step in it's evolution. Around the world, young people were "breaking out" and becoming Homo Superior, or, as they called themselves, The Tomorrow People. Through the run of the original series and the revised version in the 1990's (and now some audio plays in the last year) The Tomorrow People followed the adventures of a constantly changing cast as an increasing number of individuals developed the telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation (jaunting) abilities that marked one of the Tomorrow Person. They were more moral than "Saps" (their name for normal people), being physically unable to kill. At the start of the series they had already made contact with the friendly aliens of the Federation, who had charged them with the protection of mankind and the Earth in general. They were based out of the Lab, hidden in a disused London Underground tunnel, where they make use of Tim, a biotronic computer which their alien friends had helped them build. The later (1990's) group had a similar mission, although without the alien help. When the audio plays were launched, it was established that this group had broken out while all of their predecessors were off-planet; John has now returned to lead a new group of Tomorrow People.

The Tomorrow People could teleport (the group in the seventies called it jaunting, and needed belts to focus their powers if they wanted to travel more than a mile or so; the nineties group could easily transport themselves all over the world without apparent effort); they were telepathic; and they were telekinetic (although the later group didn't demonstrate this ability, presumably they could have developed it given time). By the time of the audio plays, the older TP's could use their telekinesis to deflect bullets fired at them.

Comments: Many thanks to Jackie Clark, whose site provided most of the images for this page.

The Tomorrow People has effectively had three series - the first series ran on television in the seventies, the second ran on television in the nineties, with no reference made to its predecessor, and the third series came out on audio from Big Finish Productions, starring some of the original cast - this third run made some passing comments tying together the other two versions, establishing that all the original TP were off Earth during the period of the second series.

The Tomorrow People of the seventies had made contact with the peaceful Galactic Federation, and after a while many of them left to become Ambassadors for Earth out in space (e.g. that's why they departed the show).

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John (Nicholas Young)

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History: The oldest Tomorrow Person, and the first one of the modern era to break out and survive. The leader of the group, he sought out the others, made contact with the Federation, and built Tim. It is his genius and the patents for the devices he has invented that funds their activities. He still lives with his parents (his father a policeman, his mother unspecified) when we first meet him, in spite of being extremely rich (he doesn't work, but instead lives the life of a playboy, with trips to the Caribbean and his own personal glider plane).

Comments: John stayed in the programme for the entire run of the original show, and is the star of the audio plays too. His surname was revealed in the audio play Trigonometry.

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History: Carol broke-out before the series started. She has all the normal telepathic abilities, but also knows when they are about to be in danger. She helped Stephen break-out. She leaves Earth to become an ambassador to the Galactic Federation after the first season.

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Kenny (Stephen Salmon)

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History: The youngest of the original Tomorrow People, like Carol and John he broke-out before the first episode. He has better developed telekinetic abilities abilities than the others. He leaves Earth to become an ambassador to the Galactic Federation, but is reported to have been killed during the second audio play, off stage.

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Stephen Jameson (Peter Vaughan-Clarke)

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History: Stephen's breaking out formed a major part of the first Tomorrow People story, being used as it was to introduce the audience to the concepts of the show. At the beginning he is still at school, and is taught by Elizabeth. Fifteen years old during the second season, he would have been about a year younger when he broke out.

He eventually departed off to the Galactic Federation, but returned to Earth for the second of Big Finish's audio plays.

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Elizabeth (Elizabeth Adare)

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History: A newly qualified teacher at Stephen's secondary school, the first signs of her breaking out came when she started to 'eavesdrop' on Stephen's telepathic conversations with John and Tim.

She joined the show at the start of the second season, and stayed with it until the end.

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Tyso Boswell (Dean Lawrence)

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History: A Gypsy, Tyso's telepathy was discovered by Professor Cawston after carrying out some tests, but he was kidnapped before the Tomorrow People could help him break-out. Rescued by the group, he naturally joins them.

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Tricia Conway (Ann Curthoys)

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History: A telepath working for the British military, she developed advanced mind reading abilities, able to read the minds of Saps, but did not break-out because her work for the military suppressed it.

When Jedikiah had captured the Lab she worked at, she broke-out and jaunted to the Lab. She managed to turn Tim's power-on long enough for him to contact Ambassador Timus. She went with the Tomorrow People to the Galactic Federation when they were evacuated from Earth.

When the other Tomorrow People returned to Earth she remained with the Federation, and joined the training programme for the Galactic Police.

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Mike Bell (Michael Holoway)

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History: An Eastender, Mike lived in a block of flats with his mother and sister. He developed telekinesis before any of his other telepathic abilities, a skill he used for petty thievery to start with. The Tomorrow People knew he was breaking-out, but did not try to contact him telepathically to try to reduce the pain of breaking-out.

Mike remained a rebel after he joined the Tomorrow People. He didn't like taking orders from John, and often disobeyed him.

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Hsui Tai (Misako Koba)

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History: Hsui Tai was worshipped as a Child God in the Temple of Shansu. As she was breaking-out she managed to contact Mike. The Tomorrow People rescued her just before she was put to death so that she could be re-born into another child.

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Andrew Forbes (Nigel Rhodes)

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History: Andrew lives in his father's hotel near Loch Ness. When Andrew started to break-out he developed an ability to create illusions. He created illusions of ghosts and of the Loch Ness Monster. After his father accepted his powers Andrew regularly created illusions of ghosts in the hotel to entertain the guests.

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Adam Newman (Kristin Schmidt)

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History: Adam was the leader of the nineties Tomorrow People, a charismatic 19 year old Australian. He broke-out at the beginning of the show, without an explanation as to what had happened, and we never learn anything about his background.

Adam has the ability to teleport and speak telepathically. In two instances, he moved while he was teleporting, once while doing a backward flip, and another while he was running. He also demonstrated the ability to heal wounds (although this power disappeared after the first season).

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Lisa Davies (Kristen Ariza)

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History: Lisa Davies was a 16 year old American who broke out early in the first story, very publicly while at a talent show her mother had forced her to enter. When she went up on the stage, part of the microphone she held fell off. The entire audience burst into laughter, and Lisa was so embarrassed that she teleported.

Lisa exhibited the power to speak telepathically, and to teleport. She was a little sarcastic, and very frank. She only appeared in the first story.

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Kevin Wilson (Adam Pearce)

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History: Kevin was 10 years old at the beginning of the show. He liked to play video games, and couldn't swim. He was also good friends with Megabyte. He lived in London with his mother and father.

Kevin exhibited the ability to read minds, teleport, and speak telepathically. He had been exhibiting his mind reading abilities long before he broke out, which was unique from the rest of the Tomorrow People. He broke out when he had a dream of Lisa's encounter at the Talent Show, and was so upset that he teleported right out of his bed.

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Megabyte (Marmaduke) Damon (Christian Tessier)

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History: Megabyte was about 15 at the beginning of the show. His real name was Marmaduke, but he considered his parents traitors for naming him that. Instead he went by his nickname, Megabyte.

Megabyte lives with his father (General Damon), his mother, and his sister (Millicent). He used to live in Vermont, but later moved to London.

Megabyte exhibited telekinetics with computers. He could also teleport and speak to other Tomorrow People telepathically. He broke out when Gloria and Professor Galt had been trying to take him back to the DSI (Department of Scientific Intelligence) laboratory, but General Damon had pulled a gun on them. Gloria slung Megabyte over the banister and threatened to drop him, so a terrified Megabyte teleported. It was Prof. Galt, ironically enough, who caused his "break-out." Megabyte was still normal at the time he was forced to wear Galt's helmet-shaped psychic power-jammer. Therefore, it had the opposite effect: it stimulated his latent powers.

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Ami Jackson (Naomi Harris)

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History: Ami was about 16 years old when she appeared on the show. She could act very serious and steadfast. Ami liked computers, and disliked dresses and cornflakes. Megabyte would get on her nerves a bit.

Ami exhibited the power to teleport and speak telepathically.

She never officially broke out. Ami had been picking up visions from Kevin after he'd been hurt, and then found him in the hospital. She explained to the doctor what had happened to Kevin, and Adam and Megabyte took her aside and explained that she was a Tomorrow Person. She teleported on her own in the 4th episode of the Culex Experiment.

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Jade Weston (Alexandre Millman)

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History: Jade was about 14 years old in her first appearance on the show. She was very outgoing and independent. Jade liked dogs and Byron Lucifer. She lived with her mother, Mrs. Weston, in a small village in England.

She exhibited the power to teleport, and to speak telepathically. Jade had been sending messages to Adam and Megabyte unconsciously . Adam and Megabyte were very puzzled by this, and finally did a mind probe to find out what message she had sent them. By then Jade and the doctor were tied to poles in an exploding boiler room. Adam and Megabyte reached the scene and teleported into the locked room. Adam teleported the doctor out of the room, but a part of the ceiling fell on Megabyte and he passed out, unable to teleport Jade. Jade, in terror, teleported herself and Megabyte out of the room.

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Paul and Elena

The newest Tomorrow People, they were located by John when he returned from the Galactic Trig at the start of the 21st century.

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