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The Dead Past

The Dead Past

John Gorrie

1965

  • TV Movie
  • Science Fiction
7.5

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.

Cast & crew

  • John GorrieDirector
  • George BensonArnold Potterley
  • James MaxwellJonas Foster
  • David LangtonThaddeus Araman
  • Willoughby GoddardRalph Nimmo
  • Sylvia ColeridgeCaroline Potterley
  • Shirley CainMiss Clements
  • Frances AlgerLaurel
  • Pat GormanTechnician (uncredited)

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