THE SILVER CLOCK

The Edwardian home of the Margolds is thrown into chaos when a Silver Clock is brought in a series first shown in 1990. The three children of the family were the only ones that were aware of the supernatural nature of the Silver Clock.

Over the course of the series they learned that in some mystical way the clock had recorded everything that had occurred around it. On the strike of midnight the clock would allow the children to travel to any time period which the clock has passed through. Unfortunately the clock also allowed others to come to the present.

Commissioned as a children’s series it drew complaints as the creator of the show, John Hibbert, was clearly more interested in dark subjects. The clock led the children into plots involving murder, satanic cults and mutilation of animals.

Learning that the series was being cancelled after one series John Hibbert wrote a shock ending in which a hanging body suddenly drops down in front of the camera.

SELECTED EPISODES

RING OF ROSEY
Rats infest the house and the children soon learn that they are emerging from within the clock. Worse still they are carriers of the black plague. The gardener is the first to die and soon most of the household are sick.
The children must find a cure before time runs out.

TIME ENOUGH
The children use the clock to visit their grandmother when she was a young girl. While there they befriend a boy their own age named Peter. Back in the present they ask their grandmother what ever happened to Peter. To their horror they learn he was convicted of killing three children, matching their descriptions!

FUTURE SHOCK
The children are about to use the Silver Clock when a man from 1985 emerges. He claims that the children’s irresponsible use of time travel has endangered the universe. In order to prevent the destruction of eternity the clock must be destroyed.

TRIVIA:

John Hibbert owned a silver clock which provided the inspiration for the television series. The same clock was used on set. John Hibbt flew into a blind rage when the children accidentally knocked it over. Three camera men had to physically restrain him.

While filming a episode with a antique musket one of the children shot John Hibbert in the leg. To this day he still walks with a limp.

The memorable theme song, the ticking of the clock mixed with the sound of wailing was a

recording of when the youngest member of the cast, Melissa Aringer, became trapped inside the clock while filming the episode ‘SLIP THROUGH THE HOURS’.

In 2003 controversy marred the memory of the series when a book collector emerged claiming to have in his possession a book called the ‘The Adventures of the Silver Clock’. While it is true that the plot shares many similarities with the television series and experts verified that the book was over a hundred years old history showed the supposed author died at a young age, killed by a mysterious stranger with a limp.