Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:58:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: J
Subject: THE GAY GUIDE TO THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

A GAY GUIDE TO THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

This guide, meaning to be a catalog of all that could be conscrewed as gay
in the TOMORROW PEOPLE series, is not meant to be all inclusive. I am sure
I will probably miss about 100 references but if you spot any that I have
missed, let me know. It was sparked by an article in the fanzine paper zine
EVENT ONE: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE. The original article CARRY ON UP THE KILT
by Philip Packer (name made up I am sure) was not flattering to the
TOMORROW PEOPLE or Roger Price, the TP creator. While not being flattering
to Price doesn't bother me in the least (he was responsible for the show's
demise as well as the awful 1992 revival story one and then bowed out of
it), his article doesn't thrill me because it is quite mean to the TP show
overall, despite being written in tongue in cheek style and for fun. It
does seem the writer is a fan though. The most interesting thing about the
article is the mention "that Peter Vaughn Clarke had turned up to a
convention in Scotland and allegedly attempted to seduce anything in
trousers."  Well all I have to say is where are you and what is your
address, Peter, you hottie? Anyhow it does go on to say that the homo
sexual context was just a subtext, not the reason for the show and some of
it is highly dubious: was it meant to be that way or not. Price is
mentioned in the article as being somewhat in love with kilts, teen boys,
and slight s and m.

THE SLAVES OF JEDIKIAH

We have Stephen's breaking out (coming out?). Stephen looks rather fetching
throughout this story and in the first two episodes he is in his pajamas,
barefooted, and put on Jedikiah's brainwashing machine where we get to see
some of his tummy as his pj top parts a bit. Carol says when discussing
Stephen's possible betrayal of the TP and TIM, "You don't think he's one of
those, do you?"  John appears shirtless and looks quite good. We see his
bedroom, Kenny's bedroom, and Stephen gets to lounge in the Lab with nice
smiles all around to TIM. Stephen is happy that John will tell his mother
and worried about what he was going to tell his parents. He asks John if
John's parents know. John's parents do know (that's he a TP of
course). Ginge and Lefty are two of the motorcyle gang and they seem
awfully close and foppish. Ginge has too good a time hanging onto Stephen
and later, when switching to the side of the good guys, he also hangs onto
Kenny in a way that reminds me of how Dr. Smith held Will Robinson in front
of him whenever there was danger coming their way (and sometimes when there
wasn't). Ginge gets wet when he is dumped in a swamp, with Lefty I
believe. The TP touch hands on the table to link. Stephen is different, his
mom tells the doctor. Stephen kicks the gun from Ginge's hand. Stephen
says, "I'll never be able to do it like Kenny."  Of course, he's talking
about TK.

THE MEDUSA STRAIN



Peter the Time Guardian is just lovely. His shirt top is frilly and parts
all the time, it really connects only at his belly. He is tortured by
Rabowski, an old chubby guy living in hyper space on a spaceship with David
Prowse playing his very muscled, very naked (well except for some kind of
loin cloth) silvery android slave---and Prowse is at his most built here!
Rabowski also accepts the new Jedikiah, a much nicer looking appearance,
rather easily and lets him stay on the ship. Peter accepts Jedikiah as an
ally too easily and is tricked at least once. Peter's voice squeaks, he
hides the key to his cage someplace in his outfit! He also was tortured by
Rabowski on a turning wheel. He uses a rather queer hand motion to open the
time lock. He screams like a girl, he kicks and hits like a girl. The
medusa tentacles seem to be quite fond of Peter while trying to eat
him. Stephen's comforting of Carol is a bit too fem and his hand motions
are well also fem. John uses a movie of a bikini briefed diver diving off a
diving board to illustrate the time freeze to the others. Stephen's memory
is rather good now and he looks rather fem when describing what Jedikiah
said in SLAVES. Rabowski spears Jedikiah and accidentally shoots his
android Copin (yes that is David's name here Copin!). Rabowski talks about
a time when men were men, not flitting about the galaxy as in the future.
Stephen and Kenny are on 2 different soccer teams together and argue
playfully about it. They spend time in the dark room together.

THE VANISHING EARTH

Stephen is rather very nice in this episode (and all the others I might
add). Sandor aka Joy seems to have too much Joy when shooting Stephen and
having him flung into the ocean face down. The alien Harry (fake name)
Steen carries him out to save him. Spidron has a fem voice even though it
is deep. Joy's macho man gypsy guy who does her and Spidron's bidding is
just a sham: he's a coward and a bit fem too in reality. Lefty seems left
out when Ginge falls for Joy (then literally Ginge falls for her). Stephen
rides on the back of Lefty's motor bike. Not much else that I can see but I
guess there are some. The men in the mine that are being used, brainwashed,
by Spidron are muscled. Some are shirtless it would seem. Steen tells the
Tp there will be more of them coming...uh, breaking out. The Tp join an
organization.

THE BLUE AND THE GREEN



A number of cuties are in Stephen's art class or his class in general. We
see a lot of cuties in the hallways and the streets around the school but
the main guest star Jason Kemp, a blond babe, handsome and lean and tall is
the main cute one. He's somewhat macho and fey at the same time. Speaking
of that, don't miss Jason with Patrick Troughton starring in the three hour
parts of THE BOX OF DELIGHTS. Jason plays a water sprite wearing nothing
but a bunch of fig leaves, showing us his tight stomach and navel, tight
arms and legs, and well, almost everything else! Drenched in a
waterfall. Uhm, back to THE TOMORROW PEOPLE. Anyway, we get to see a number
of bad boys in Stephen's class, influenced by the aliens. The aliens are
the type that live in human bodies and need to hatch (come out). To do so
they need the type of violence that only can come from human committing
violence on each other. They make paintings that can influence humans to do
this type of violence. They also give badges of blue and green for the
humans to wear. At one point a gang of peaceful boys turn cruel and menace
new TP Elizabeth. They are all shall we say quite butch and cute. Art
teacher Liz and Stephen wrestle in the school hallway for a short time (no
floor rolling though) as all hell breaks loose in the classroom and one boy
is seriously hurt. We meet Chris, Ginge's brother. The actor who played
Ginge had his motorbike fall on his leg apparently and this was written
into the story and Ginge was written out. Chris tells John, "My own
brother! After all these years, he turns out to be lousy stinkin blue!"
John asks if that means Ginge has joined the conservative party.  We see
Stephen and John returning from one of their many swimming trists, this
time two trips are mentioned. They swim at Gallia Island in the Carribean
this time. John helps tear off Stephen's scuba outfit...and we see Stephen
in just his tight little bathing suit, blue I believe. His bare stomach is
quite nice and we see his chest and long hair. Uhm, uhm. Stephen, it must
be mentioned looks quite nice in his school uniform. John is locked up by
Robert after tossing Stephen under Robert's painting's influence. He also
wrecks parts of the lab. Chris, after Robert, is a little too eager to beat
him up. Two guys help Chris break into Robert's basement...but it seems
they are taken over too and start a fight with Chris. To stop the violence,
the TP have to put everyone to sleep with giant stun guns they make from
already existing satellites in space. The violence in humans' dreams give
the aliens what they need. Chris often dreams of violence and this time
dreamt of what he would do to that Robert kid if he got his hands on
him. Robert bonding with Stephen previously. Stephen felt bad about John
getting captured and was brave enough to try to do something about it
--without caring what Robert really was. Robert seems fond of both Stephen
and John. Chris, after the whole thing is over, is found laying in the arms
of a police captain whom he was fighting with when the whole world was put
to sleep. I am sure there is more but I may have missed them.

A RIFT IN TIME



Gladiators! Need I say more? Of course. Peter returns. Togas. Swords. A
villain named Gaius who when he examines a Stephen who is tied with his
hands behind his back to a pole on the stairs, says, "A lovely young thing,
like a wild animal. Does he have any spirit? He has, he has."  Stephen and
Peter have their hair very, very long. Peter, when the TP return to their
own time but find it all changed to a parallel Earth and universe totally
conquered by Rome, lays his head on Stephen's shoulder when they look for
who was arriving. Fey apes ala PLANET OF THE APES, one of many conquered
aliens are who arrives. Stephen and John share the same dream. John rushes
over to "hold Stephen's hand" as Stephen puts it and we get to see
Stephen's bedroom. They stay up all night together in the lab trying to
find the gladiator vase that appeared in their dreams so that they can
track Peter to the correct time. Chris is a bit too macho when he hears
talk about gladiators and gladiator training schools, repeating, "Those who
are about to die..."  To act the part, Liz and John have tied up Stephen
and Chris's hands and pull them along. Stephen tries to act as if he
doesn't like it but Chris accepts the situation and offers his hands
first. Stephen is good with swords and wounds one of Gaius's henchmen in
the arena--Guthrun. Guthrun gets Stephen down with a sword pointed at his
neck. Previously Peter was in the same situation when a blond boy, quite
macho and brawny, had him down. Lothar, the other henchman, is handsome and
built and we see his bare stomach and navel. He carries Stephen under one
arm. He and/or Guthrun also grabs Stephen when he first tries to run away
but carry him in both arms.  Peter has a cell mate named Coatus (coat
me!). This is played by the handsome blue eyed, brown haired slight but
muscled bare legged boy doll Peter Duncan. Duncan is...shall we say
gorgeous. He has been in THE SURVIVORS season two in a really bit part. But
DON'T miss his SPACE: 1999--THE EXILES from season two of that show. He
wears a skin tight outfit, is blond in it, and is a VERY bad boy. We get to
see him shirtless as he lies nearly dies. He is also shirtless in a BLUE
PETER episode, of which he was the host for a year or two. In a BLUE PETER
annual and in the episode, he was in a bikini brief swim suit doing diving
routines. Duncan also appeared in FLASH GORDON the movie from the 1980s as
the kid who gets bitten by the Test Monster in the plant and has to have
the Prince stab him in the stomach with his sword. He tries to hold in his
cry but a small "NNNFFF" escapes. Oh kay, back to the TP. As Coatus, he
tells Stephen if he got the thumbs down in the arena, he would not spare
him. Stephen is chained at the wrists. Coatus is chained standing up. Peter
feeds him and tells him to shut up about dying. Coatus was Gaius's favorite
before but now he lost in the training and is going to be sent to Rome to
die in the arena as sport for the gladiator horsemen who will stick him
with their spears.  Gaius is not from this Earth but from the parallel Rome
(he may even be totally alien and not from that planet --Earth was renamed
Rome in the time change---you see Rome was really not a parallel but a time
change---from Gaius, Coatus found out about and made the steam engine much
too early in history) either.  Gaius orders Guthrun to kill the
boys. Peter, a TP and a Time Guardian, cannot kill even though Coatus holds
Guthrun between his thighs. Peter gets the spear but cannot do it. Guthrun
gets free and is about to spear Peter when Chris breaks in and stun guns
him. Stephen tells him he could have waited a while longer--things were
just getting worked up in here or something like that. Maybe he was. Hey so
was I. Okayyy, now. The Tp get all the cute young things out when Gaius's
time transferer blow up the whole school (an implosion really thus the
walls still stand). After the blast and vacuum (?) from it, the blond who
previously almost killed Peter huff and huffs and huffs and relaxes on his
back. Go figure. Coatus tries to save the TP who go back to the school to
find the steam engine and Coatus after they realize about the time
change. They want to change it back. They sleep above the ground one inch
floating. Chris is on guard duty and is fooled by Coatus, who returned to
get his engine parts. He is locked in the cell but Stephen gets him
out. Coatus is knocked on the head by Gaius's men. Oh and previously, I
just love how both Peter and Stephen foppishly hold their swords and bend
their wrists. Making his first appearance is the distinguished looking
Cawston who is in search of telepaths and usually he finds none but when he
does it is a boy and Stephen. Later he finds Tyso in another story. He also
is a medical doctor. His old lady colleague archeologist is the same lady
who played in DOCTOR WHO-THE SEEDS OF DOOM. Did I miss anything?  Probably.
Peter's grandfather has scenes with Stephen in a time lock. Great story.
And I mean that.

THE DOOMSDAY MEN

My first story. The first one I saw I mean. Also great. Stephen has to wear
a kilt and doesn't want Chris to see. John and the UN spaceman they save,
Lee Wan get way too close after so short a time. Stephen has to infiltrate
a boy's school in Scotland. Lots of kilts and sword fighting. The "little
saber rattler" as John calls him is Stephen, who was a master fencer in his
school. In the school, sadist Douglas (the delightfully camp William
Relton) delights in his power as headmaster's grandson (and secretly his
grandfather is a killer Doomsday Man as is he). He sticks his stick into
the chests of boys and stomachs, he orders them to put new boy Stephen on
the trellace outside their high up dorm, and generally just makes life
tough for the boys while not for himself. He is shirtless in one scene as
is Stephen and the very very cute Paul (played by Simon Gipps Kent who was
small here but by DOCTOR WHO-HORNS OF NIMON had filled out into a slight
muscleboy). Paul is the masochist to Doug's sadist, although Paul does warn
Stephen. To de macho Paul and Douglas later on, the TP show them a
psi-movie in their minds about how REAL violence is, to rid them of the
nonsense of glory and war that was ingrained in them. Stephen is outrun by
Douglas. He is beaten by two DDMen easily. John tells Stephen he can't go
into Space dressed like that (in a kilt). When first getting to the school
Stephen is asked by Paul if he is wearing anything underneath his kilt.
Paul has to take a look. Later, Stephen starts to remove his underwear
while mind talking to Liz and John. "They don't! They just don't!"  Liz
laughs, mentioning it must be very drafty. Angry, Stephen throws his
underwear into a drawer but then mentions he will play along and be the
"proverbial grass monkey". The training scenes as the boys go through an
obstacle course are long and cool. Stephen gets to show his belly while
swinging on a rope. When trussed up and left outside on the window ledge,
Stephen jaunts to the Lab to be chastised by John, who relates a poem to
TIM about old men sending young boys off to die in war while the old men
die in their sleep in bed. This is a real poem by the way. John feels bad
but the next morning, Stephen tells him it was good he did even though John
was being cruel and mean: he overheard the headmaster and the general Ddmen
talking. The ritual to initiate new Ddboys is quite gross: they have to
drink blood from the same gobulet. Stephen has to press both Doug's and
Paul's matter transfer belts--he actually has to wrap Doug in one first and
then press it about the belly button spot. Paul's is also pressed near his
navel. John has to hold onto Paul from behind when Paul was confused and
disorientated in the Lab after his matter transfer. Paul bites, John tells
Stephen and fights like a wild cat. Earlier, Doug set Stephen up to fight
with rapiers--that could kill---to fight him and three other boys. Stephen
wins. Doug bends his wrist when hurt by the move that knocked his sword
away. Stephen recovers in bed after the Ddmen that "kidnaped" Douglas hit
him. It was a fake kidnaping. Stephen stun guns one of the DDMen heads and
pushes him over so that the man falls back down onto the bed in the
dorm. Doug plays the bagpipes. I must have missed about 100 more.