1963: MOCKUMENTARY PREDICTS the FUTURE of 1988 | Time On Our Hands | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!

These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth's 1963 BBC 'mockumentary' Time On Our Hands - a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of a century into the future.

Imagine how the futuristic inhabitants of 1988 - a society freed from the shackles of endless hard work - might reflect on the way people live and work in 1963. Its aim is to look back at the extraordinary, almost unbelievable, events of the intervening 25 years - referred to as 'the years of the transformation'.

The opening title music, Time On Our Hands, was written and performed by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

"This Buoyant programme could be repeated a dozen times and still intrigue, delight and disturb me" - Dennis Potter, Daily Herald TV critic, 1963.



This footage is compiled of excerpts from Time On Our Hands, a faux-documentary film by Don Haworth.

Originally broadcast 19 March, 1963.




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