The last time we saw the Tomorrow People they were in a right old mess. Carol was being kept in a cage on board a space ship in hyperspace with a gadget on her head that stopped her being able to use her special powers. John and Stephen were being blasted to atoms by a ray gun while looking for Carol in hyperspace and Kenny was back in the lab, all on his own and too scared to masturbate because TIM has that off-putting omnipotent thing going on.

Hooray – Jedikiah missed and Stephen and John are still alive. Albeit spinning round in hyperspace. Those Kirby wires must be causing havoc with their gentleman’s bits and pieces. It’s bad enough when your stationary without spinning like tops. Pity the nads.

Jedikiah lines up for another shot but TIM is able to jaunt them back in the nick of time. Kenny examines them and – with all the emotion of a pebble telling the ocean that they should stop seeing each other – he declares "I fink they’re dead".

Back in the cages, Carol is hoping the ship wasn’t shooting at Stephen, Kenny or John while Peter says no one has tried to rescue him because no one knows he’s here.

Kenny carries the lifeless bodies of Stephen and John to the table so TIM can work some kind of science magic on them. Will it work? Or will Kenny have to save the day?

Another day, another bicker between Jedikiah and the rogue. Jedikiah is preparing to travel through time and he’s leaving the rogue behind. The rogue is appalled.

Jedikiah wants the rogue’s crown jewels (not a euphemism) and pulls out a gun.

There is a tussle and the gun goes off accidentally.

The time key is destroyed. Oh well, that’s the story over with I suppose. Bye.

No – wait – the rogue has seen the error of his ways after Jedikiah tried to shoot him. He wants the telepaths (and Ginge) to help him. We’re all friends now.

It won’t do them any good – Jedikiah is switching off the life support systems with immediate effect. Well, it was the 1970s – money was hard in those days. The three day week was what crippled the British space programme. Ted Heath decided that a British rocket couldn’t get to the moon if it was only allowed electricity for three days a week. That and the astronauts union demanding a 50% pay rise if any of its members actually went up into space.

The alliance between the rogue and the prisoners is short lived as they are breathing his air and he’s the one with the axe.

Rather worryingly, TIM’s attempt to revive Stephen and John has caused Kenny to collapse. That’s almost the opposite of what TIM was hoping to achieve.

Hooray – John and Stephen are ok. It looks as if TIM simply sacrificed Kenny so the others could live. A wise use of limited resources.

TIM tells Stephen that he died. Stephen is appalled. But now he’s alive again. Stephen is confused. And, thanks to his fashionable hair, almost blind.

Ah – my apologies – it seems Kenny actually did sacrifice almost all his life energy to bring the others back. My flippancy has done him a disservice. He did a great and noble thing. It won’t mean they keep him in the series but he’s been the tea bag in their cups of water and now they may all drink. Or something.

Having failed to break the bars of the cages (the rogue and the humans are friends again) the rogue calls for his android. The android ignores him. Jedikiah has promised him hot robot-on-robot man love (or something) and he’s swapped sides.

How utterly evil.

The robot goes down to the menagerie but rather than letting everyone go, he puts the rogue in the fourth and final cage. Oh the irony.

While everyone up there dies to death, the TPs in the lab are going to bed. Jimjams on, sleeping bags zipped, lights dimmed. Yawn, lie back, relax. Tomorrow they can jaunt up and fetch the corpses.

Its not looking good up there – Carol is lightly moaning (possibly singing, possibly not) and has realised she’s going to die with a silly yellow box on her head.

Stephen can’t sleep – he wants to go up into hyperspace and help NOW. John tells him to go back to bed – there’s plenty of time left to save everyone. There isn’t but John’s right. Even though he’s wrong.

The life support systems come back on – everyone is delighted until Jedikiah simply takes Peter and leaves again. The rogue still thinks Jedikiah will save him too. Ginge is more philosophical.

Jedikiah makes Peter an offer (again) – repair the time key that was so recently damaged and he (Jedikiah) will go back to his own time and place leaving Peter, Ginge and Carol to go back to theirs.

Peter isn’t sure he can trust Jedikiah (he can’t) but he agrees anyway. But not before giving the audience at home a little look that suggests there is more going on inside his little blond head than charming naivety.

We then immediately cut to a later scene where Jedikiah is throwing Peter back into his cage. So did he fix it or not? I’m confused.

But wait – while Peter was repairing the time key (minus his silencer hat) he got the magnetic key from Jedikiah and is able to unlock all the cages. That was lucky.

Carol, Peter and Ginge leave the rogue in his cage. Yeah. That’ll learn him.

In the exhibits room, Ginge takes a liking to a passing sword. He’s going to stick it right up Jedikiah’s data banks.

Though he may not get the chance – Peter diddled about with the time key so that the next person to use it will be transported to the surface of Mercury. Ouch. The best part about it is that robots aren’t alive which is a neat little exception in the can’t-kill-anything rule for telepaths.

The gang discover that to get anywhere on this ship they need the rogue’s palm print. Ginge reluctantly lets him out of his cage but reminds him that only one of them has got a sword and it isn’t the rogue.

Oh flip – Jedikiah heard the lift moving and switched off the power. They’ll be trapped in the lift for the rest of time.

Luckily, there is a Peter shaped hole which one of them – in this case Peter – can slip through and operate the lift controls.

These are no ordinary tunnels though – these are wacky tunnels.

John is still in bed, the others are still asleep and TIM is still not letting them get up. This is a very strange story. Ramping up the tension as we hit the last ten minutes with three quarters of the team napping.

Meanwhile, Peter is still crawling.

Hooray – he’s found the end of the tunnel. It’s blocked. Sucks to be Peter.

Three cheers for British engineering. It’s not blocked any more. A ten year old child pushed it and it fell off.

The android spots Peter and runs after him. Jedikiah tries to shoot Peter but only hits the android.

Peter is appalled.

Jedikiah grabs Peter by the flowing locks and activates the lift. So Peter did at least achieve his mission. Albeit in a slightly less than successful manner.

They try to rush Jedikiah but he’s got a gun and they haven’t. The rogue changes sides again and joins force with Jedikiah.

Peter is told to set the time key for 8^th century England. And where Jedikiah goes, the others go too. Peter is appalled again – he doesn’t fancy the surface of the planet Mercury. Not at this time of year.

But then Jedikiah and the rogue have another falling out. The rogue throws his sword and it goes right through Jedikiah. Improbable I know but it happened.

He’s malfunctioning in the time bridge. He tries to take the crown jewels with him but the rogue runs in to grab them. They both vanish. Evil has defeated itself – just as it always will.

The two blonds release each others silencers and almost immediately hear the welcoming voice of TIM.

That’s enough to get the boys out of bed. You’ll notice that apartheid has even stretched to pyjamas in Tomorrow People land.

This is Mercury – where Jedikiah and the rogue went. Sucks to be them. And the crown jewels – they’re toast. And indeed Peter who isn’t toast but who has killed a man which he’s really not supposed to do.

But he gets over that and sends Carol and Ginge home.

And for the hilarious climax, Ginge is cross because he was five hundred years in the future and (snigger) didn’t find out who won next year’s Derby. The TPs throw their shoes at him and shout "Oh Ginge!" What larks.