Nick, his sister Lauren, and their friends Horace and Jason are Afro-British, a Jazz quartet, and accidental time travellers after a local tramp takes them back in time.
Series 1 takes them to 1926, where they befriend young socialite Victoria. Series 2 finds them in 1958, where they catch up with Victoria, now older, poorer, and has a 32 year old son from her dalliance with Jason.
This series provides examples of:
- Anachronistic Soundtrack: The band plays "trad jazz" versions of modern songs. They call themselves The Wu-Tang Clan, a name that is meaningless in the past, and at one gig they arrive to see a blackboard with the words "One Ton Clam" on it.
- Cliffhanger Copout: Season 1 ends with the band in a pre-historic jungle where a load roar is heard and they are covered by the shadow of a dinosaur. Season 2 starts with them back in the present day, with the dialogue "Do you want to go time travelling again?" "Not sure. Last time we nearly got eaten by dinosaurs".
- Jazz: The reason that the band is able to survive comfortably is that they are a relatively good jazz band.
- No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel: Somewhat averted. The band isn't accepted as well as they might be, and still encounter racism in various forms, but London is sufficiently cosmopolitan in both time periods that being there isn't risky.
- Newspaper Dating: In the first episode of season 2, the band arrives in the 1950s and Lauren identifies the year as 1958 from a discarded newspaper on the street: the lead story being about Russian spies.
- The Roaring '20s: The first series is set in London in 1926.
