Roger Price (b.1941)

Roger Price influenced me through his invention and writing of the British science fiction television series The Tomorrow People (1973-9), about sometimes victimised psychokinetic teleporting 'homo superiors' 'breaking out' in adolescence.

I identified with the characters Steven (played by Peter Vaughan-Clarke) and Mike (Michael Holoway). John (Nicholas Young)'s character was serious and fatherly. The way 'the lab' existed as a base to offer a home from home to other Tomorrow People was touching.

Despite the low budget, the series was imaginative.

Combined with the programmes' black and white, stop-motion title sequence, the theme music by Dudley Simpson resonated with me.