Patrick Troughton (riffing wonderfully on his prior incarnation as Doctor Who) plays a time-hopping inventor who’s disturbed by a couple of curious kids. He decides to send them back through the ages for themselves, but when his machinery begins to malfunction his charges wonder if they’ll ever make it back.
During the English civil war, Lord Dawlish (George Baker), a spruce nobleman, leads a double life as the Moonraker, a royalist highwayman who causes nothing but trouble for the Roundheads. However, when Oliver Cromwell wins at the final battle of Worcester, the Moonraker must help Charles the Fir...