Oct 25, 1965
58 min
Full-HD

The Dead Past (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.

Category

TV Movie Science Fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

BBC TV

George Benson

Arnold Potterley

James Maxwell

Jonas Foster

David Langton

Thaddeus Araman

Willoughby Goddard

Ralph Nimmo

Sylvia Coleridge

Caroline Potterley

Shirley Cain

Miss Clements

Frances Alger

Laurel

Pat Gorman

Technician (uncredited)

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