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The Dead Past

8.0 58 mins TV Movie   Science Fiction   1965
BBC TV  
Director(s): John Gorrie

Release Date: 25 Mon, Oct 1965

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.

Casts of The Dead Past

George Benson

as Arnold Potterley

James Maxwell

as Jonas Foster

David Langton

as Thaddeus Araman

Willoughby Goddard

as Ralph Nimmo

Sylvia Coleridge

as Caroline Potterley

Shirley Cain

as Miss Clements

Frances Alger

as Laurel

Pat Gorman

as Technician (uncredited)

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