The show aired on ABC TV and covered the book in two seasons, each consisting of five episodes.
He is almost foiled but eventually he crosses the time barrier via a TV set and begins the Finders Keepers game.
Episode 1.2 Patrick is given the task of finding a missing object that has been lost on his side of the barrier.
Episode 1.4 Patrick is finally sent back home only to find that Eleanor Doon's clue leads him to Estelle's ring.
Patrick is torn by the dilemma of either taking Estelle's ring or missing out on winning a computer.
Episode 1.5 Estelle is reunited with Boopie and Patrick returns the find to Eleanor Doon, thus winning his computer.
Patrick makes his way to the TV shop to be transported across the time barrier, leaving his cousin Carol at the clock.
Episode 2.2 Patrick makes it through to the shopping centre only to find that time has passed and the clock has been taken away.
Patrick realises that Carol must have followed him to the other side and they rush home to contact Max, who is being interrogated by the agents.
Patrick and Claire find a poem on the clock that helps them locate the clockmaker, Anna Varga.
Max is thrown into isolation but not before he tells McCready all about the time keeper clock and the missing regulator.
Claire helps Anna Varga move the clock back to the shopping centre.
Max arrives and he, with the help of Anna Varga, moves Patrick and Carol to the shopping centre.
Some scenes were filmed at Sefton Plaza directly across the road which remains largely unchanged.