Storyline

Each episode adapts — and sometimes quite radically alters — a short story written by Wells: The New Accelerator, The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, The Crystal Egg, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Truth About Pyecraft and The Stolen Bacillus. Each is presented as if it were a 'real' incident that Wells had investigated with his girlfriend, Jane Robbins, and as if it had served as an inspiration for a short story. The flashbacks are to 1893 within the 1946 frame story, near the end of Wells's life, when he is interviewed by a secret military research institute interested in his past exploits.

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Cast

Tom Ward

Herbert George 'H. G.' Wells

Eve Best

Ellen McGillvray

Nicholas Rowe

Professor Cedric Gibberne

Vincent Franklin

War Minister

John Bennett

Mr Jagger

Richard Clifford

Foreign Secretary

Mark Dexter

Atkins

Orlando Seale

Albert Einstein

Catherine Bailey

Violet

Neville Phillips

Praecentors

Donald Douglas

Chairman at Praecentors

Barry Stanton

Dean Frederick Masterman

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