Life Force (TV series)
Life Force is a British science fiction television series first broadcast in 2000 on CITV. The series was directed by Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory and Peter Tabern.[1] In the year 2025, global warming has resulted in the melting of the ice caps and consequent flooding of the planet. Greg, Karen, Ashok and Mai-Li are four children who possess telepathic abilities who are pursued by another telepath, Kurt Glemser.
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| Music by | Ian Hughes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Cinematography | Nick Dance |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Distributor | ITV |
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| Original network | CITV |
| Original release | January 10, 2000 |
Cast and characters
- Damian Lewis as Kurt Glemsner - a malevolent telepath working for the Commission who hunts the telepathic 'sender' children.
- Pablo Duarte as Ash Karnak - a 'Sender' who possesses telepathic power.
- Sarah Hollis as Mai-Li - a 'Sender' who possesses telepathic power.
- Paul Fox as Greg Webber
- Julia Hayworth as Karen Webber
- Kelly Hunter as Amy Webber
- Valentine Pelka as Richard Webber
- David Mallinson as Goodman
Episodes
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| 1 | "The Girl Who Flipped" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | January 10, 2000 | |
| In the year 2025, global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt and the sea to flood large swathes of land on Earth. Richard and Amy Webber, who are members of environmental pressure group Greenwatch, teach children in skills they hope will enable them to repair the damage to the planet. | |||||
| 2 | "Greenwatch" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | January 17, 2000 | |
| Richard and Amy are arrested, leaving Paul and Karen, and Ash and Mai-Li - both possessing telepathic powers - to fend for themselves. They seek out Goodman, an old friend of the Webbers, who is operating from a laboratory within a derelict mill. When Goodman becomes ill, the children return to the school to find medicine. | |||||
| 3 | "On The Run" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | January 24, 2000 | |
| At the Commission Headquarters, Kurt Glemser interrogates Amy Webber in an attempt to locate the missing telepathic children, who Gelmser refers to as 'senders'. Amy tries to send a warning message to Mai-Li through telekinesis. | |||||
| 4 | "Greenhouse Effect" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | January 31, 2000 | |
| A cruel farmer is found using refugees as slave labour, and a disease breaks out on his farm. | |||||
| 5 | "The Village That Dreamed Itself to Death" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | February 13, 2000 | |
| The children respond to a distress call from Loppergarth Island. When they arrive, they find that Loppergarth Island is deserted, save for Gemma, a ten-year-old girl who they find in shock and afraid to go to sleep. | |||||
| 6 | "Yesterday Island" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | February 20, 2000 | |
| Having run out of fuel, the children are forced to moor on a nearby island. They discover a museum dedicated to the time before the floods, run by a strange old woman called Polly Phemus. | |||||
| 7 | "Beware of the Dog" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | February 27, 2000 | |
| In need of a fuel pump, Ash and Greg travel to the Cartmel scrap market. The price for the pump is too high, so the boys decide to try at a haunted scrapyard on Devil's Island. | |||||
| 8 | "Return to Sender" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | March 5, 2000 | |
| Joshua, a young 'sender', goes missing while under Commission escort, and it is revealed that Joshua has been programmed with a virus by Dr. Galina Renkova, that is engineered to make the telepaths destroy one another. | |||||
| 9 | "Siren Song" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | March 12, 2000 | |
| Greg sets off to replenish the group's supplies of sunblock. During his trip, he meets a mysterious brunette, Siren. Greg finds himself caught up in the activities of a sinister cult determined to stop people from 'interfering' with nature. | |||||
| 10 | "Paradise Island" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | March 19, 2000 | |
| The children receive a morse code message and head to Paradise Island, where they discover Hepzibah McKinley, a scientist who claims to have discovered the secret of cold fusion. | |||||
| 11 | "Age Before Beauty" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | March 26, 2000 | |
| Greg and Mai-Li investigate an empty dinghy drifting in the sea. Greg wakes up in a house, and a girl called Marianne tells him that he was found floating alone in the sea. Marianne's father, Professor Petersen, plots to sacrifice Mai-Li in an attempt to cure his daughter of the rapid-ageing disease she is suffering from. | |||||
| 12 | "No Quick Fix" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | April 2, 2000 | |
| Goodman takes Ash to the Cartmel scrap market for video spares. Ash meets Luke, another 'sender', and falls in with Skylar, a criminal who convinces young telepaths to steal for him. Skylar provides them with Tags, chemical strips that enhance their telepathic abilities. | |||||
| 13 | "The Thought Fish" | Justin Chadwick, Lorne Magory & Peter Tabern | TBA | April 9, 2000 | |
| Amy escapes from the Commission's headquarters and makes her way to the Greenwatch base, showing more concern for the two 'Senders' than for her own children. | |||||
References
- TV.com. "Life Force". TV.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
External links
- Life Force at IMDb
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