Premise - 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 into her fashion and appearance.
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.
Bond finds Solita in an old transistor radio and must reach the stone circle before the Wirdegens catch them. They slip through time, and it's implied that Dora and Bond are related as they both posses the same family heirloom stone. What is fantastic is that the series is now on You Tube!
Bond finds Solita in an old transistor radio and must reach the stone circle before the Wirdegens catch them. They slip through time, and it's implied that Dora and Bond are related as they both posses the same family heirloom stone. What is fantastic is that the series is now on You Tube!
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. (He was also a Deatheater in Harry Potter films!
And it turned out the Wirdegen's were just Galgonquan in disguise, testing Bond. The filming location was generally in Devon, spotting the Exeter bus station, stone circles on Dartmoor and the time slip scenes at Becky Falls.
Another Alien Series - that I absolutely loved was the sci-fi drama series of the 80's I remember watching was the 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. I have watched the 3 series on YouTube (Chocky's Children and Chocky's Challenge.
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 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. Although as a child watching this I just thought it was great to have a secret friend who made you super clever! We all used to talk about it at school the next day.
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, or only watched part of it as it wasn't that memorable... 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 and create cosmic energy, 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. The acting was really wooden too. Big thumbs down.
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