Time Riders

Time Riders

Release Date:  10/16/1991
Country of Release:  UK
Length:  24 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV FAM SF
Release Message:  BB Miller (Haydn Gwynne), accidental time-traveler and Ben Hardy, a street urchin from Victorian England, arrive back in the middle of the English Civil War on BB's motorbike time machine. Before their hectic and hilarious adventures are over, they are practically blown up, nearly dissected by mad scientists, almost axed to death and then meet their worst nightmare in the evil Witchfinder General.
Description:  BB Miller, accidental time-traveler and Ben Hardy, a street urchin from Victorian England, arrive back in the middle of the English Civil War on BB's motorbike time machine. Before their hectic and hilarious adventures are over, they are practically blown up, nearly dissected by mad scientists, almost axed to death and then meet their worst nightmare in the evil Witchfinder General. 4-part 1991 CITV show directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Haydn Gwynne as Dr. B. B. Miller, a motorbike riding time traveler.[1] Location filming was carried out at the Polytechnic of Wales for scenes set in the modern day (Part One and the end of Part Four), whilst those set in the past (Parts Two, Three and the bulk of Part Four) occurred at Caerphilly Castle. A novelisation of the series, written by Eldridge (ISBN 0-09-993940-1 ) was published in 1991. It was illustrated by Mark Robertson.