Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.

Jeremy Rampling
as Tom Long

Simon Fenton
as Peter Long

Shaughan Seymour
as Uncle Alan

Isabelle Amyes
as Aunt Gwen

Caroline Waldron
as Hatty

Renée Asherson
as Mrs Bartholomew

Richard Garnett
as Abel

Sarah Jane McKechnie
as Mrs Long

Tessa Burbridge
as Susan

Katherine Schofield
as Aunt Grace