This episode was clever enough to trap me into laughing at its risible method of time travel before revealing that the time-travel element wasn't all that it seemed. Thyssen (Peter Bowles making his third appearance) is apparently using his one-armed time bandit to send fugitives from justice back into the past. The idea of having his ancestors from different eras as confederates is a good one, rather Scarlioni-esque.
I really don't like the twee street sets (a style which we'll see again) - it feels like they're pandering to lazy American ideas of what Britain is like.
Also seen: Clifford 'Major Branwell' Earl, Geoffrey 'Organon' Bayldon, Nicholas 'Mr Rumbold' Smith, Imogen 'not Valerie Leon' Hassall.
Previously seen: Roger Booth returning from The Hour That Never Was, Judy Parfitt making her third appearance.
