Návštěvníci (TV series)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Návštevníci / The Visitors
Format	sci-fi/comedy/miniseries
Created by	Ota Hofman Jindřich Polák
Starring	Josef Bláha Josef Dvořák Jiří Novotný Dagmar Patrasová Viktor Král Dagmar Veškrnová Eugen Jegorov Klára Pollertová Vlastimil Brodský
Country of origin	Czechoslovakia
Language(s)	Czech
No. of episodes	15 (List of Návštěvníci episodes)
Production
Running time	30 min
Broadcast
Original channel	Czechoslovak Television
Original run	1983 – 2005
External links
IMDb profile

Návštěvníci (The Visitors) is a Czechoslovak sci-fi TV series filmed between 1981 and 1983 by Jindřich Polák.

[edit] Plot

In the 25th century—more precisely, in the year 2484—people live in a world of peace and love. Thus, mankind is horrified when CML (Central Brain of Mankind), the main supercomputer supervising the whole Earth, announces an upcoming disaster. It has spotted a huge space object on a collision course with Earth. The impact is unavoidable, and the prediction is that a significant part of the Earth will be destroyed.

But there is hope. Professor Filip, biographer of the greatest physicist ever, Adam Bernau, offers a plan to save mankind—time travel to the past. Adam Bernau was a genius mathematician and physicist of the 20th and 21th centuries, winner of the Nobel prize. In his memoirs, Bernau stated that in his childhood he wrote down in his notebook a short formula that would allow the moving of whole continents, worlds and planets. This can save the Earth.

Professor Filip selects a four-member team for the trip, and their expedition begins. The expedition plans to spend just a couple of minutes in the past, but something goes wrong, and they are forced to spend several weeks.

[edit] Reception

The series has been released in several other European countries, including Germany, Poland, Romania and Spain.

The widow of the real professor Filip sued the creators of the series for profanation of her husband's name. She won, and the main character had to be renamed Professor Richard. This hurt the quality of the sound in the whole series.