The Tomorrow People (90s revival)

The Tomorrow People began as a British cult classic: Thames Television's original ran on ITV from April 30, 1973 to February 19, 1979 — 68 episodes about ordinary kids who "break out," spontaneously developing paranormal powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. One rule defined them: a psychological barrier means a Tomorrow Person cannot intentionally kill.

The 1992 revival brought the idea to a new generation with a new home base — in place of the original's secret Lab, the young cast was drawn to a sentient psychic spaceship on an island in the South Pacific. Produced by Tetra Films and Reeves Entertainment for Thames and later Central, with Nickelodeon as the US partner, it premiered November 18, 1992 and ran through March 8, 1995 — 25 episodes across three seasons. The American commitment was real: the pilot was filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Florida in April 1992, and the show aired on Nickelodeon in the US. Kristian Schmid led the cast as Adam Newman, alongside Christian Tessier, Adam Pearce, and Kristen Ariza — plus a young Naomie Harris, later Moneypenny in the James Bond films, as Ami Jackson in seasons two and three.

For American kids who caught it on Nickelodeon, the show lingers as a half-remembered fever dream: British accents, teleporting teens, an alien ship on a tropical island. Plenty grew up doubting they hadn't invented it. A separate American remake aired one season on The CW in 2013, but the 90s revival — genuinely strange, genuinely real — is the version that haunts the memory of everyone who found it as a kid.