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Seeing the 1970’s Sci-Fi TV show The Tomorrow People mentioned in another thread reminded me of a couple of other British shows from roughly the same period that I can only vaguely recall.
The first was broadcast in perhaps 1975 or ’76 and was the story of a young girl who upset the balance between mankind and electricity by smashing the screen of a television set. My recollection was that she then became a kind of fugitive, tying to escape from electrical appliances that were going haywire. As I was only 5 or 6 at the time, I may not have fully understood what was going on but I have a strong memory of one scene in particular which terrified me at the time. This involved the girl walking under some electricity pylons and experiencing painfully loud ‘electricity’ noises in her head.
The second programme was shown some years later around 1980 – 1982 and was about some scientific military outpost on a remote island in (I think) Scotland. Mutilated carcasses of dead sheep started to turn up around the base and it wasn’t long before some of the soldiers and scientists stationed there were being attacked by what eventually turned out to be a violent blood-sucking monster. Annoyingly, I can’t remember how the series ended but it did have a very dark edge to it and I found the whole thing very creepy.
Does anyone recall these two programmes? I am absolutely certain that they existed although the dates they were shown may be out by a few years.
The first was broadcast in perhaps 1975 or ’76 and was the story of a young girl who upset the balance between mankind and electricity by smashing the screen of a television set. My recollection was that she then became a kind of fugitive, tying to escape from electrical appliances that were going haywire. As I was only 5 or 6 at the time, I may not have fully understood what was going on but I have a strong memory of one scene in particular which terrified me at the time. This involved the girl walking under some electricity pylons and experiencing painfully loud ‘electricity’ noises in her head.
The second programme was shown some years later around 1980 – 1982 and was about some scientific military outpost on a remote island in (I think) Scotland. Mutilated carcasses of dead sheep started to turn up around the base and it wasn’t long before some of the soldiers and scientists stationed there were being attacked by what eventually turned out to be a violent blood-sucking monster. Annoyingly, I can’t remember how the series ended but it did have a very dark edge to it and I found the whole thing very creepy.
Does anyone recall these two programmes? I am absolutely certain that they existed although the dates they were shown may be out by a few years.
) who makes friends with a young boy and ends up sleeping in the family shed. And in the first series, the only way you could tell he was an alien was that his ears were back-to-front. But then... ahh... in the second series his ears were the right way round but were green! Weird programmes they used to make in those days! :?
