Editing Timeslip (section)

==Critical reception==
Reviewing the first episode in ''[[The Stage]]'', John Lawrence said, "I always feel wary of programmes that are announced as "science fiction" since too often the description is applied to something that uses wild and improbable events to jump gaps in otherwise badly conceived stories... Judging by the first episode of ATV's new series, ''Timeslip'', by Bruce Stewart, however, this programme looks like it might prove to be a welcome exception. [...] Its strength lies in the fact that it is imaginatively conceived in terms of the detailed development of the plot, and well written. ...if the standard is maintained, it will be a series well worth watching, and not just by the children, either".<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Lawrence |title=Well Worth Watching |url=http://www.timeslip.org.uk/whatsnew/index.php |format=GIF |newspaper=[[The Stage]] |date=2 October 1970 |access-date=7 September 2007 }}</ref> Later, during the broadcast of "The Time of the Ice Box", many of the children watching were frightened by the scene where Edith Joynton ([[Peggy Thorpe-Bates]]) ages to death thanks to an incorrect dosage of HA57; this scene was edited slightly when the series was repeated in 1973.<ref name="Houldsworth_54"/>

''Timeslip'' has generally remained well-regarded in the years since first broadcast. A retrospective of the series in ''[[Dreamwatch]]'' magazine in 1996 concluded that ''Timeslip'' was "a series that demanded much of the viewer over 26 weeks and rewarded those who persevered".<ref>McGown, ''Timeslip'', p. 51.</ref> In 1999, when science fiction magazine ''[[SFX magazine|SFX]]'' asked an expert panel from the SF field, including [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]], to compile a list of the top 50 SF shows of all time, ''Timeslip'' came thirtieth on the list.<ref>{{cite journal |editor-last=Golder |editor-first=Dave |date=April 1999 |title=The Top 50 SF TV Shows of All Time |journal=[[SFX Magazine|SFX]] |issue=supplement to issue 50 |pages=10}}</ref> Later, in 2005, ''SFX'' went on to poll its readers for their list of the top 50 British telefantasy shows and ''Timeslip'' was voted into twenty-eighth position on the list, the magazine describing it as "surprisingly intelligent and thoughtful SF with some ambitious ideas" and a series that "dared to be more adventurous with its science fiction than most so-called grown-up SF shows".<ref>{{cite journal |editor-last=Bradley |editor-first=Dave |year=2005 |title=The Top 50 Greatest UK Telefantasy Shows Ever |journal=SFX Collection |issue=22 |pages=20}}</ref>