'Lazlo' by Bob Baker

When a mysterious call for help draws Phil to Glastonbury Tor, he enters the tower and immediately falls into a void. Landing inside a dark cave system, Phil expects to meet Rothgo, but instead finds the putrefied corpse of a man covered in green slime, and an overconfident, bumbling, magician named Lazlo. The wizard immediately grabs Phil and asks him to heal his slime-covered hand, but this act only succeeds in infecting Phil too. Lazlo explains that he and his kind are alien to the time track Phil has fallen into; prolonged exposure to this environment causes them to decay, and Lazlo’s only chance to escape to his proper time zone lies with his magical bracelet. When Lazlo reveals that a pirate named Long John Silver has stolen the bracelet’s power source, known as the Scarabeus, Phil is shocked to find that in this world, fictitious characters are real – and that he has become trapped in ‘Treasure Island’. After agreeing to help Lazlo search for the Scarabeus, Phil is captured by Silver and his men, while the cowardly Lazlo flees for his life. Phil is thrown into a cell, where he meets a young girl called Amy Foster, daughter of the captain of the sailing ship, ‘The Hispaniola’; it seems that Silver has taken the child hostage so that he can trade her for the treasure that her father currently holds, in a fort constructed on the island above them. Meanwhile, Lazlo is attacked by a strange old man, dressed in rags and carrying an old skull; when the magician uses his powers to defend himself, he inadvertently releases Belor from her imprisonment within the skull. Delighted to be free, the witch offers Lazlo the opportunity to serve her in a plan to take over all the time tracks in existence; when Lazlo refuses, the enraged witch swears to destroy him…

Chris Harris (Lazlo), Pamela Salem (Belor / Anne Barney), Simon Beal (Phil Church), Howard Gooney (Bram), Godfrey James (Long John Silver), Walter Sparrow (Israel Hands), Sara Markland (Amy Foster), Geoff Searle (Captain Foster), Hubert Tucker (Doctor Jarrett), Nick Chilvers (Sailor)

Directed by Peter Graham Scott
Produced by Peter Graham Scott
Executive Producer Patrick Dromgoole

TX (UK):
28th July 1982

Notes:
*Featuring Phil, and introducing Lazlo