Each episode adapts — and sometimes quite radically alters — a short story written by Wells: The New Accelerator, The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, The Crystal Egg, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Truth About Pyecraft and The Stolen Bacillus. Each is presented as if it were a 'real' incident that Wells had investigated with his girlfriend, Jane Robbins, and as if it had served as an inspiration for a short story. The flashbacks are to 1893 within the 1946 frame story, near the end of Wells's life, when he is interviewed by a secret military research institute interested in his past exploits.
Herbert George 'H. G.' Wells
Jane Robbins
Ellen McGillvray
Professor Cedric Gibberne
War Minister
Mr Jagger
Foreign Secretary
Atkins
Albert Einstein
Violet
Praecentors
Chairman at Praecentors
Dean Frederick Masterman
Mark Radcliffe
Arthur Brownlow
Whittaker
William Cave
Rosa Cave
Mark Pattison
Sidney Davidson
Dr Symonds
Keating
Albert Pyecraft
Harold
Sam