Regular Cast

Regulars credited on the opening titles
Michael French Jeff Slade
Chloe Annett Holly Turner
Sue Johnston Grisham
Regulars NOT credited on the opening titles
Paul Trussell Morris
Richard Dempsey Nicky
Bob Goody Danny (eps 1, 2, 4-8)
Jack Chissick Frank (eps 2, 4-6, 8)

Production Credits

Created and Written by Anthony Horowitz
Producer Brian Eastman
Executive producer Caroline Oulton
Co-Producer Stuart Doughty
Production Supervisor Ted Morley
Director Of Photography Colin Munn (eps 1, 3, 6, 7), Nic Knowland (eps 2, 4, 5, 8)
Production Designer Gary Williamson
Music Anne Dudley
Editor Chris Wimble (eps 1, 3, 6, 7), Liz Webber (eps 2, 4, 5, 8)
Post Production Bruce Everett
Costume Designer Christine Rawlins
Make-up Suzan Broad
Sound Recordist Peter Sutton (eps 1, 2, 3, 4, 6), Simon Bishop (eps 5, 7, 8)
Casting John Hubbard, Lisa Anne Porter
1st Assistant Bert Batt (eps 1, 3, 6, 7), Roger Simons (eps 2, 4, 5, 8)
2nd Assistant Sarah Dibsdall (eps 1, 3, 6, 7), Matt Baker (eps 2, 4, 5, 8)
Stunts Colin Skeaping
Script Supervisor Janice Brackenridge (eps 1-4), Janet Mullins (eps 5-8)
Locations Nigel Gostelow (eps 1-5, 7, 8), Michael Harvey (eps 6)
Co-ordinator Marilyn Clarke
Camera Opperator Nigel Kirton (eps 1, 6, 7) David Budd (eps 3) [1]
Focus Puller Keith Broome
Grip Ian Buckley
Boom Opperator Ken Nightinghall (eps 1, 2, 4, 6) Keith Pamplin (eps 3), Ben Brookes (eps 5, 7, 8)
Gaffer Andy Curling (eps 1-3, 6, 7) Steve Philps (eps 4, 5, 8)
Art Director Nic Pallace (eps 1-3) Henry Harris (eps 4-8)
Buyer Cathy Cosgrove [2]
Construction Steve Bohan [3]
Property Master Micky Lennon
Wardrobe Daryl Bristow
Accounts Craig Barwick
Titles Red Pepper
Sound Editing Steve Schwalbe
Dubbing Mixer David Old
Carnival Films for BBC
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Notes
[1] Role not credited on eps 2, 5, 8
[2] Role not credited on eps 7
[3] Role not credited on eps 1

1:  Jeff Slade And The Loop Of Infinity
Transmitted:  1 March 1997

Directed by Brian Farnham

Cast:  Guy Lombard (Terrance Hardiman), Mark Redding (Leonard Preston), Barbra Lombard (Fiona Curzon), Michael Lombard (Gresby Nash), Silberman (Trevor Steedman), Mr Wilson (Sion Tuder Owen), Mrs Wilson (Rebecca Deren) Policeman (Phil Atkinson), Betting Man (Ronald Nunnery)

Story:  Jeff Slade is kicked off the police force by his boss, Grisham after causing the collapse of a case by disobeying orders.  However, the departments foresic expert Holly Turner comes up with the evidence needed to get Slade of the hook.  Grisham gives Slade his job back but Slade's celebrations are muted.  For Holly to have got the evidence she would literally have had to have been in two places at the same time.  Slade gets the answers to his conundrum when a businessman apparently commits suicide as he is about to close a deal that will save his company...

2:  A Death In The Family
Transmitted:  1 March 1997

Directed by Rick Stroud

Cast:  Aunt Mary (Mary Tamm), Alex (Paul Barrow), Wilkes (Vernon Nurse), Linda (Kay Adshead), Blake (John Forbes-Robertson), Carter (Pip Torrens), Herrmann (Ian Sharrock), Beverly (Paula Stockbridge), Aramis Manager (Peter Harding), Fat Man (Chris Sander), Wine Waiter (Andy J. Smart), Receptionist (Hannah Cresswell)

Story:  Holly is shocked to discover that her Aunt Mary has died after being poisoned.  She is even more shocked to discover that she has been named in the will and could be due up to £2 million.  Slade persuades Holy to take him back in to time to find out who killed her Aunt. Things go wrong when they go to the restaurant where Mary was murdered.  Hollyhandles the glass the poision was in, accidentally leaves her fingerprints behind.  With this kind of evidence Holly is prime suspect and is soon arrested by Grisham.  Can Slade clear Holly's name before they run out of time to get back to the time machine and avoid getting trapped in the loop of infinity?

3:  Fashion Shoot
Transmitted:  1 March 1997

Directed by Brian Farnham

Cast:  Sonja Duvall (Carol Royle), Linda Duvall (Amanda Royle), Clifford (Frank Lazarus), Hopkins (Christopher Hunter), Letts (Colin Edwynn), Carl (Francis Maguire), Journalist (Anna Brecon)

Story:  Holly and Slade are assigned to protect fashion designer Sonja Duvall after she receives a number of death threats.  Sonja is about to show her latest collection.  When the designer goes on stage at the end of the show she is shot dead.  The killer is seen running away but manages to escape.  All the evidence seems to point towards Sonja's sister Linda who had a blazing row with Sonja just hours before the shooting.  However, Slade and Holly are not convinced that Linda did it.  It seems that the only way to catch the real killer is to return to the scene of the crime and watch the murder happen all over again...

4:  The Revenge Of The Chronology Protection Hypothesis
Transmitted:  15 March 1997

Directed by Rick Stroud

Cast:  Levenson (Sam Cox), Crowley (Christopher Adamson), Louise Jbara (Paddy Navin), Bernstein (Geoffrey Rose), Kelly (Brian Rawlinson), Auctioneer (Victoria Plum), Sutherland (John Gill), Receptionists (Joanne Asker, Valerie Clover), Hostage Family (Paul Doust, Nicholas Horowitz, Cassian Horowitz, Marie Aherne)

Story:  Holly is at a conference giving a lecture about time travel when she sees a news report.  During a hostage situation Slade has been shot and is now in a critical condition in hospital.  In desperation Holly realises that the only thing she can do to help is to go back in time...

5:  Sins Of The Father
Transmitted:  22 March 1997

Directed by Rick Stroud

Cast:  Jack Slade (Christopher Ellison), Oldroyd (Ray Lonnen), Gabler (Stephen Grief), Warden (Michael Browning), Henry (Phil Smeeton), Max (Rupert Farley), Melvyn (Simon Melia), Receptionist (Alina Proctor)

Story:  Slade is shocked when an officer who has come to the division turns out to be Oldroyd, the man responsible for putting Slade's father in jail.  Oldroyd is there to stop the sale of stolen diamonds.  The raid is successful.  Holly authenticates the diamonds and all seems well.  When Slade gets home that night he is attacked and drugged.  When he comes round the next morning on a park bench he makes his way into work.  He arrives to discover that the diamonds have vanished.  A search of his flat uncovers some of the diamonds and a look in his bank account shows a deposit of £25,000...

6:  Death Minister
Transmitted:  5 April 1997

Directed by Brian Farnham

Cast:  Sir Iain (David Neal), Lady Hawkins (Antonia Pemberton), Kirby (Ken Bones), Robert Mather (Roger Evans), Monica (Susan Curnow), Matthew (Barry Birch), Mark (Brett Forrest), Luke (Kevin Squelch), John (Zacharee Lee), Journalists (Sallyann Barber, Stephen Ullathorne)

Story:  Slade and Holly use the time machine to catch a gang of bank robbers.  On return Holly surveys the damage to the machine and decides that they have been using it too often.  She gets Slade to agree to solve the next case by more conventional means.  However, when ex-government minister Sir Iain Hawkins is killed Slade decides the only way to solve the crime is to time travel.  Slade breaks into Holly's flat and uses the machine.  Meanwhile, Grisham becomes suspicious of how Slade is solving many more cases than anyone else.  She decides to have Morris follow Slade to find out exactly how he's doing it...

7:  The Lottery Experiment
Transmitted:  12 April 1997

Directed by Brian Farnham

Cast:  Ducann (Gawn Grainger), Sissions (Gavin Watson), Bayly (Anthony Hannan), Green (Andrew Baker), James (Phil McKee), Janine (Ruth Platt), Commissioner (Antony Carrick), Charlie (Jame Ryland), Engineer (Gary Kielty), Woman In Phone (Shelia Gill), Receptionist (Zienia Merton)

Story:  After watching the lottery draw Slade persuades Holly to let him use the time machine so that he can go back and put a bet on the lottery.  After using the machine he goes into work to tell Holly the numbers so that she can put the bet on (he can't as he wasn't there so he couldn't have put the bet on) Grisham puts him on a very important case.  A big shipment of gold is about to take place.  Sissions, a big time crook Grisham has been after for a long time, won't be able to resist that kind of bait.  All they have to do is wait outside the bank until Sissions turns up.  However, Sissions stays at home while the bank is being robbed.  The robbers tunnel in under the bank and manage to get away with the gold.  It looks as if Grisham is about to lose her job unless Slade can find the gold and the robbers.  However, Slade's mind is more on finding Holly to put on the bet that will make them both millionaires...

The following credits appeared on this eps only:

Set Dresser Tina Jones
Special Effects Derek Hendon
8:  The Broken Crystal
Transmitted:  19 April 1997

Directed by Rick Stroud

Cast:  Marlowe (Christopher Villiers), Mrs Beavis (Angela Pleasance), Webb (Godfrey James), Chapman (Mark Penfold), Accountant (Jeffrey Perry), Guard (Paul Bentley), Secretary (Jenifer Gibson)

Story:  Slade and Holly are stopped outside Holly's flat by a man.  Before the man can say anything a car runs him over.  As he lays dying on the ground the man points to Holly's wrist as if trying to tell her something.  Holly and Slade attempt to go back in time to find out what is going on but the machine only takes them back a couple of minutes.  On their return to the present the single most costly part of the machine, the Electro-magnetic crystal, breaks.  Holly can't afford to replace it.  Next day at work, the identity of the man is revealed to be a Doctor Chapman who worked for research company Webb Biotech.  He had been working on a major project with Dr Haywood who had died in suspicious circumstances just weeks before.  Holly and Slade go to Webb and find that one of the people running the place, Marlowe, is an old flame of Holly's.  When Slade receives a mysterious message to meet someone in the middle of the night he is instantly suspicious.  He goes to the meeting place only to be shot at.  Slade manages to shoot the assailant in the shoulder before he escapes.  Slade is convinced that Marlowe was the culprit.  However, Marlowe has no wound to the shoulder and has a water-tight alibis for the shooting...


Crime TravellerEpisode Guide compiled by
Richard Spurr

Posted:  1 June 1998
Last Updated:  8 June 2003

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