'The Slaves of Jedikiah' (4 Parts) by Brian Finch and Roger Price

The Tomorrow People - John, Carol and Kenny - have discovered that a new Tomorrow Person is about to manifest their powers. This new member of homo-superior is Stephen, who collapses from the shock of ‘breaking-out’, and is taken to a nearby hospital. The Tomorrow People use triangulation to trace Stephen to the hospital, and Carol ‘jaunts’ - teleports - into his room to make contact. She begins to teach Stephen how to control his telepathy, but before she can finish, both of them are attacked by Ginge and Lefty, two bikers obeying the orders of a mysterious figure known as Jedikiah. Stephen is kidnapped, but John, Carol and Kenny mount a rescue operation and save him. They take Stephen to their Lab, which is based in a disused part of the London Underground train system, and introduce him to Tim, their biotropic sentient computer. But Stephen is still under Jedikiah’s control, and, left alone in the Lab, he deactivates Tim's external connections and opens the door to allow Jedikiah, Ginge and Lefty to enter. At home, Carol realises that Tim has stopped working and contacts John; they both go to the Lab, but are caught in a trap set by Jedikiah and are stranded in Hyperspace, where they will be torn apart by the dimensional forces. Kenny jaunts to the Lab while Jedikiah and Ginge are outside, and manages to shut the door and re-activate Tim. But Jedikiah burns through the lock of the door, and Kenny is captured. Tim locates Carol and John in Hyperspace and jaunts them back to the Lab, but Jedikiah uses a device to paralyse all the Tomorrow People. Leaving the others behind, Jedikiah takes Kenny back to his base, and imprisons him, Ginge and Lefty in a room containing a matter transmitter, which transports them all to a spaceship. Meanwhile, Carol, John and Stephen attempt to search for Jedikiah's base, but on locating it they find nothing that will lead them to him, and they only just escape before it explodes. Jedikiah reveals that he is a shape-changing android, working for an alien creature known as The Cyclops. This alien contacts the Tomorrow People, telling them to go to his spaceship if they want Kenny back. When John and Stephen jaunt to the ship they are caught in a trap. Carol jaunts to a different part of the ship, and manages to damage Jedikiah with a stun gun. In the scuffle, the ship is also damaged, which releases John and Stephen. They then find Kenny, and a reformed Ginge and Lefty and release them. They then find the Cyclops, who explains that he is only trying to go home - his crew was been killed and he needs telepaths to pilot the ship. As the vessel breaks up, the Cyclops is killed, and the Tomorrow People jaunt back to Earth just before the ship explodes. But Jedikiah is left floating in space...



Sammie Winmill (Carol), Nicholas Young (John), Stephen Salmon (Kenny), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen), Philip Gilbert (TIM), Michael Standing (Ginge Harding), Derek Crewe (Lefty), Francis de Wolff (Jedikiah), Patricia Denys (Cyclops), Robert Bridges (Policeman), Peter Weston (Mrs. Jameson), Neville Barber (Dr. Stewart), Christine Shaw (Staff Nurse)

Directed by Paul Bernard

TX:
Part One - 30th April 1973
Part Two - 7th May 1973
Part Three - 14th May 1973
Part Four - 21st May 1973
Part Five - 28th May 1973

Notes:
*Featuring John, Carol, Kenny, Stephen, Tim, Ginge and Lefty

*This story features the first appearance of Jedikiah