TightRope Episode 1 1972

Martin Clifford (Banks) lives in a quiet English village called Redlow and is busy studying for his A-levels at Redlow Comprehensive School when someone intercepts the ‘School for Television’ broadcast during lessons with a message called ‘ The voice of truth’ asking students to question the authority of the establishment.
Martin suddenly finds himself at the centre of a dangerous international espionage plot.
Beneath the outwardly calm surface of Redlow lies an intricate network of spies and counterspies, with their focus of attention being the American Air Force base nearby - soon to become the communications centre for top-secret NATO exercises.
Martin is commissioned by British Intelligence to help uncover enemy agents in the village and finds his life balanced precariously on a tightrope - one false move on either side, and he could fall to his death.

[@chrishilton1490]

Was as good as I remember it. Barry from Last of Summer Wine in his first role. I was 16 turning 17 and now a pensioner. Would love too see the full series again.🇬🇧👍✌🙂

[@arthurvasey]

I can remember seeing bits of this series when it was first on - with it having Simon from Timeslip in it, I originally thought it was that - never saw much of Timeslip, either - my only vague memories of Timeslip were: A girl disappearing under the time barrier (Episode 1); An older version of Liz along with the young version (The Time Of The Ice Box); Simon almost meeting a young version of himself (The Day Of The Clone); A room without windows that said ENTRY FORBIDDEN Something about a school, whose telly was interrupted by The Voice Of Truth (turned out to be Tightrope - this curiosity of a programme) I never got to see a series all the way through, as my parents saw telly as a reward for doing the work of a housewife - remained resolutely off until all the jobs were done (by then, so were the programmes) or the news came on!

[@user-ky2js6qt4x]

Glorious b&w. Love this. Corny background music and all.

[@ashdrive]

I brought this series on DVD....the writing and acting is just brilliant, very 70s, but thats refreshing. Spencer Banks was a truly an excellent actor, I saw his amazing talent in Timeslip....

[@Sol-Cutta]

This channel is a DREAM..simply SUPERB. thankyou so much. Beautiful.

[@MartynRavensdale]

Martin does a spot on Richard Ayoade impression!

[@allmac7504]

Relaunched full series this month

[@enriquesanchez2001]

OMG where can I see more of this series? Spencer Banks is one of my favorites!

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@DWPD1963 Bloody shame

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[@Koala1203]

More Episodes please

[@timeslipz]

loved timeslip when i was a kid, never heard of this though, is the rest of the series anywhere on line to be seen,Thanks

[@michaeldanello3966]

NOT the Mike Connors 1959-1960 show. This is from Britain

[@1968KWT]

10:57 Fred Elliott 🤓

[@Sol-Cutta]

Network dvd ??

[@gmlpc7132]

Yes - a Network release and still available.

[@gmlpc7132]

@Paul Davidson Thanks for flagging that up - that's good news for those who didn't get the original release. The new release has an attractive cover but seems to have the same contents. I wondered if they might therefore have put it in their Re-View section of re-releases but maybe they wanted it to have greater prominence..