David (Rob Edwards) and Phillipa (Clare Clifford), are a newly married couple, both having children from previous relationships.
David is bringing Jacqueline aka Jake (Sophie Bold) to his new home to Phillipa and her daughter Dora (Claire Wilkie) and son Lewis (Sebastian Knapp) Jake, is very tomboy like in nature is the polar opposite of Dora who's all lipstick and hairspray.
Meanwhile, up in that there galactic galaxy, is a Galgonquan spaceship where - another set of siblings - Bond (Grant Thatcher) and Solita (Elizabeth Watkins) are getting all anxious about Bond's upcoming assessment. Solita needs to disguise herself on Earth as an everyday object and Bond is tasked with locating and retrieving this (all after disguising himself as a human being man).
Doesn't sound too testing, but there's also the threat of the sinister Wirdegen to contend with who want to do nasty things to Galgonquans.
Doesn't sound too testing, but there's also the threat of the sinister Wirdegen to contend with who want to do nasty things to Galgonquans.
Things go wrong for everyone. Jake can't stand life at David and Phillipa's house and Bond finds himself fleeing from the Wirdegen almost as soon as he's set foot on Earth. Bond ends up with the Earth kids on a desperate quest to find Solita and get home asap.
I remember something to do with magic stones at the end, but as this series has yet to grace YouTube, I can't watch it to say what the idea of the stone circle was.
I remember something to do with magic stones at the end, but as this series has yet to grace YouTube, I can't watch it to say what the idea of the stone circle was.
I loved this series because I fancied the pants of Grant Thatcher and I had this sneaky wish to be an Alien. Think it may have something to do with being all seeing and all knowing.
The Wirdegen were a great addition and the menace portrayed by the Wirdegen leader was simultaneously fantastic and nightmare inducing. There were a few dark and disturbing moments when the Wirdegen takeover the mind of Lewis.
And it turned out the Wirdegen's were just Galgonquan in disguise, testing Bond, so we didn't have to worry about being taken over by aliens.
The other inspiring favourite sci-fi drama series of the 80's I remember watching was 1984 adaptation of John Wyndham’s Chocky. This was Wyndham’s final science fiction novel published in 1968 and set slightly in the future, where as the Children's TV version was contemporary.
The premise of both the novel and the series is that Matthew, a 12-year-old boy, suddenly appears to have an imaginary friend named Chocky. His parents become worried about his behaviour and eventually Chocky reveals herself as this ball of glowing light. She's here on a mission to understand Earth and uses Matthew as a vessel to understand the world.
The TV adaptation was pitched as a children’s series but it’s one of those rare children’s series that is perfectly watchable by adults.
The interest of the story is that it’s a kind of science
fictional twist on the demonic possession idea, but the real twist is that
Chocky really appears to be rather benign. Perhaps even benevolent. Having your
son possessed by an alien entity, even an apparently benevolent one, is still rather disturbing. The series created two sequels Chocky's Children and Chocky's Challange.
In Chocky's Children Matthew goes on holiday and meets a mathematical prodigy Albertine (after Einstein of course) who is unaware of Chocky, but the alien tutors her and makes her uber clever. The precocious child hates Matthew's suggestion that she is clever through alien intervention until she is kidnapped by a group who want to find out Chocky's secrets. 
The third series, I don't think I watched... Chocky's Challenge, (I was probably too old to watch kids TV by then), but I have watched it since and think it was... not very good. Basically, they had to build something that would save the world, but if trapped inside would kill them!!! The series threw up more questions and most of it was spent with Chocky's Children silently talking to each other telepathically and smiling or giggling at one another because they'd figured something really intelligent out. Big thumbs down.Chocky Theme Tune and First Episode
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