The Flipside of Dominick Hide

"The Flipside of Dominick Hide"
Play for Today episode
Opening title
Episode no.Series 11
Episode 8
Directed byAlan Gibson
Written byJeremy Paul,
Alan Gibson,
from an idea by Alan Gibson
Original air date9 December 1980 (1980-12-09)
Running time90 minutes

"The Flipside of Dominick Hide" is a British television play first transmitted on BBC1 on 9 December 1980 as part of the Play for Today series.

Peter Firth stars in the title role as a time traveller from Earth's future who illegally visits the London of 1980 to search for an 'ancestor' and finds a world very different from the one he left behind. The story concludes with a plot twist involving a causal loop, a popular concept in time-travel fiction.