The Changes.

[derek1969able]

they couldnt show it again, it looks too much like the recent riots..how sad.

[bournemouth1964]

I like the classic 1970s railway scenes at the beginning. We have a Class 52 'Western' running non-stop out of the tunnel, yet the Class 47 stopped dead.

[SuperBagshot]

why are the BBC so fxxkin slow

[allanscot1]

I used to love this show, I was always wary of electricity pylons after this programme! They don't make them like this anymore.

[cuntylishus]

The beginning is ridiculous. Absolutely no attempt to put what's happening in any kind of context. Just people smashing their crappy socialist-built 70s 'technology'. The factories probably weren't making any noise that day anyway thanks to the shiftless, striking commie loons who had taken over the aslyum by that point! ;) I'm just trolling, but it's kinda true!

[themeekwanderer]

@cuntylishus This IS just an edit, (it was 10 parts long) from what I remember the point was to make you think what on earth is going on at the start. In those days TV wasn't spoon fed fast edited drivel you get now. It was thoght provoking, to show kids what would happon if technology was taken away from them. As for the other points you speak of. Times where hard then as they are today. We still work hard for very little. The new world order is still there, I hope CHANGES will happon soon.

[ursamyn0r]

Thanks so much for putting this up. I watched this on BBC children's programmes when I was about 9 and I loved it. Then for years I couldn't remember the name of it and whenever I tried to describe it to people they invariably looked at me as if I'd gone mad. I think this was an incredibly influential series (for those of us who actually saw it)... but the name worked against it as it was not very memorable.

[PublicEnquiry]

Afraid just like the old style pre mid '80s adult documentaries the BBC would never make a programme like this any more - too liberating - nowadays the corporation really is Orwell's Ministry Of Truth. I pity any MP who listens to the Today programme or watches Newsnight hoping for some useful insight into the way the world really works.

Watched this as a child & ended up working for the BBC so HAD to track it down in about 1997 & now selling it online here bilderberg dot oh ar gee slash videos

[microcephalec]

I hope I don't hear the frightening noise!!!!

[IndigoDavei]

Ah, Changes was an excellent kid' sf serial ... far better than Man Dog! (Thought I'd just throw that in for its comparative obscurity!)

[loftyeric]

Oh wow! Waited years to see some of this again. Thanks so much.

[shaftsbury94]

great old type synth effects made it spooky, great mems of the 70s.

[K1w1scot]

Wow! I'd totally forgotten about this classic. There really were some apsolute gems coming out of the UK in the 70s and 80s. Rudimentary by today's standards, maybe...but I would say a lot better thought out.

That noise used to scare the crap out of me as a kid! Brilliant stuff.

[flicker66]

I remember watching it on the telly as a kid in the mid-seventies and being really scared.  I also watched Survivors in the seventies and that was really scary too. Great stuff.

[swedeseed]

interesting post..i vividly remember watching this as a child in 1975 and a couple of years ago i fortunately managed to get hold of a VHS tape recording of the whole 10 episode series from the 1994 ukgold repeat,picture quality is average but at least its watchable,ive since transferred it to DVD and the series hasnt disappointed me..its still a fascinating and enthralling classic show

[spyvsargent]

gee,i remember this tv show ,it was play on tv, in australia around 79,80,81,scared the crap out of me for it time.

[courtney359]

Great show,but i remember the ending was a major anti-climax.

[BraeBoy]

Sorry! Posted Murun Buchatansangur on wrong clip! Oops.

[BraeBoy]

Murun buchstansangur

[arcofneptune3000]

who is that at 06:14? I recognise the voice - didn't he appear in some kind of medical drama years and years later?

[Professor6871]

Scarest thing is when those people accuse that poor girl of being a witch a reminder of when innocent young and old women were accused of witch craft 300 years ago, and were burned at the stake.

[purplehelen03]

This was Brilliant. I never forgot this show. It featured in my childhood, I was forever suspicious of Pylons and the witchfinder man was terrifying

[porridgeeveryday]

that day the bill grundy interview with the sex pistols was shown on the box and everyone felt the need to smash up their tv sets.

[neemz2000]

Davy Gordon (bearded guy) scared me to death as a kid.

[terry4144]

does anybody remember the program where a girl would look out of her window and these creepy stones would appear to be getting closer and every week they would be closer

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144

I remember that too man.

Scared the crap outta me...Don't remember the name of it though.

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144,

Just had a google around.....AND.....

The show was called 'Children of the Stones'

Probably won't sleep tonight now........

[terry4144]

@jmjmartin I thought it was that one myself but later found it it was about a girl that drew pictures of things and the stones were one of the things she drew and it would make things happen I cant find it now but when I do i'll let you know

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144 Damn....

Now I definately won't sleep with wondering what it was now..

Thanks though.

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144 Don't know if this will help or hinder....

But at about the same time, The Adventures of Lizzie Dripping was on too.

[terry4144]

@jmjmartin its called escape into night

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144 Hi Terry,

Thanks man!

just wikkiied' it and it mentions Paperhouse 1988 too.

Man this has bugged me for years, and at one point I thought I might have actually dreamed the story (Hahaha, no pun intended).

Creepy as hell though.

Do you remember the 'original' intro from 'Appointment with Fear'? Mid 70's Friday night 10.30 for us in Yorkshire. I used to get shXt scared before the film even came on....Great growing up in early 70's eh?

[terry4144]

@jmjmartin glad to help it had bugged me for years not knowing what it was called it is a bit different to how I remembered it though and im not sure I have heard of the other programs you mention

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144 Hi Terry, Where in UK are you? Sunny Doncaster for me.

The 'Appointment with Fear' was an animated intro of about 30 seconds, that introduced the movie of the night. Usually a Hammer Horror Movie, but we occasionally got other studios too. It used to be the high point for me when I was 9 or 10, getting to stay up late was great.

Other stuff I watched early - mid 70's were, Catweazle, Timeslip, Tomorrow People, & Dr Who. I loved sci-fi & horror stuff...Still do.

[terry4144]

@jmjmartin hi, im in sunny Herne Bay yeah I used to love all those especially tomorrow people got a copy on dvd for a trip down memory lane I could not get over how badly acted it was what a disappointment

[terry4144]

@jmjmartin do you remember a program called orlando? he used to wear a woolly hat I think he was a trouble shooter on oil rigs or something, same sort of time as danger man etc he had one of those faces like sid james no one else seems to remember also the flaxton boys

[jmjmartin]

@terry4144

I remember the Flaxton Boys & Danger man alright, but Orlando? Ya got me there...

I also collect old tv themes, I have about 300 from waaay back. Including Flaxton Boys.

If you have any fave's you would like to hear again, let me know your email, I may have your fave'.

[djbethell]

Bloody Hell, if this was episode one, I can't wait for episode two. And people say TV was really slow back in the old days. Bring it on...

[djbethell]

Hey, she went on to work with The Riddlers years later.

[djbethell]

If it's anything like the shit they sell at Argos who can blame them.

[gregvideo07]

Fantastic, scared me to death at the time too. A classic

[taariqtaariq]

I loved this and thought about it every time I saw a huge electrcity pylon,decades later . Nobody here in Oz knows about it. I moved here at age 7 from the Uk and never saw this show ever again. I have ordered a pirate dvd of the whole series via chap on the web in England. The BBC have most likely lost the master tapes/films.

[weldon0m]

SMASH THOSE VIDEO RECORDERS!!!LOL

[djbethell]

DVD Recorders. Get with it, maaaan!

[FelicityCatflap]

I remember watching this as a seven year old and being terrified of pylons for years afterwards too... well, even now if I'm honest (I'll let you do the maths!) I wondered if someone had put it on here, and was so pleased to find it... except I've just watched it, and at 2.40am, I'm now cacking myself and too scared to go to sleep cos I'll have nightmares again! :oS

[stingmen]

I used to watch this when i was a kid. I have been trying to find it for years and years. Now I have here! Cool!!

[stingmen]

I used to watch this when i was a kid. I have been trying to find it for years and years. Now I have here! Cool!!

[gyruss2008]

This was an absolute classic program for kids to follow back in its day. loved it :)

[FeedbackPete]

I always remembered vaguely something about seeing a programme where something was happening in the world and that people where throwing tv sets out of the window. Thats what always stuck in my mind. Couldnt remember anything else but somehow always associated it with Quatermass it was weird. Children today dont get anything as creepy as this. The opening credits of Children Of The Stones used to creep me out It was so dark. I would have came in from School be in the house alone and it was on.

[Concreteowl]

It is a shame this hasn't got an official DVD release. I think this was from the only UK Gold repeat.

It terrified the wits out of me.

[ColloquialMurphy]

The Changes...70's paranoia revisited..brilliant and yet slightly prophetic. You should also search for 70's kids public information films...farms, railways, lakes, beaches, power stations...all no go areas. It's a wonder anyone under the age of 12 went outside at all!

[Bilbone]

I'm downloading it at the moment, because I remember it with great fondness. I bet I'll be disappointed though - probably one of those things that you could only appreciate as a child in the seventies, like Catweasle or the Double Deckers.

[robert61611]

I thought I was the only person who remembered this too. I have tried for years to get hold of a copy - so great to see these highlights. It stood out for me as a really good science fiction TV serial.

[MrNorvegicus]

Hey i'm exactly the same custardaghost, how did we manage to survive the bloody shit scary 70's

[custardaghost]

I still find pylons frightening, entirely because of watching this.

[MrNorvegicus]

@custardaghost

[Pfth]

@custardaghost I still find pylons frightening too - for exactly the same reason. I'm not kidding, this programme used to give me nightmares of the most harrowing kind - I was five years old and I couldn't tell if it was a documentary about what was happening in the outside world or what... all the things that were familiar and reassuring to me were being trashed and bent and twisted... it scared the living cr@p out of me!

[taariqtaariq]

Yes me too!!!!. I am 40  and watched it in the UK when it first came on TV.

[radiopartizan]

@Pfth

Same here - the bit with the tomb at the end gave me recurring nightmares for years afterwards.

[kerkevik]

I found a website with DVD's, but it was gone by the time I had the money to buy them (I wabted copies for presents as well). I loved this show, and believed until recently I was the only person who remembered it. Ray.

[nikvanlanduyt]

Choice class47 with headcode box and western coming out of the Severn tunnel!

[d3rr3nbr0wn]

Aren't we all suffering the same silent torment today from Wi-fi masts, cell phone towers and electricity pylons?

[CHESEABUN]

Wow! I remember seeing this when i was about 9 or 10. No one else seems to remember this. Not as scary as children of the stones though...

[norwind]

this should be featured on BBC 4 electric dreams season

[Czechmate1967]

They'd never let kids watch this these days.

[ogwen040]

This was shown for the first time in February 1975. We emigrated to New Zealand in the first week of March and I missed the last episode.

[Liz66bee]

I think this series haunted a generation! I must have been about nine when it first aired and I've wanted to see it again ever since - any chance someone could post some full episodes?

[SurrealAspie]

It was only ever repeated once on BBC 1 in 1976. It was shown on UK Gold in 1994.

[cghaworth]

You may be right there; I have an idea that when it was aired, like many children's dramas, each episode was shown twice in a week. Is that correct? Either way, it stuck with me for a long time

[shaftsbury94]

@SurrealAspie when it was first on, i didnt have a video, next time my cable was cut off for a late bill, and its never been shown since.

[cghaworth]

I remember this very well, mainly because they kept repeating it so often. Would love to see the whole

[ladbrokesmafia]

available online I believe

[Wolverhampton1]

Compare this qwith the drivel that kids get now.

1970s didn't patronise children!

[HotSummerof1976]

I recall watching this as a kid,thought it was excellent.thanks for the upload.

[tackertone]

A real trip down memory lane, thanks Phil for the share & thanks SurrealAspie for posting.

[angieaye]

so happy to see this i was starting to think i had imagined the series had ever existed,,, i remember seeing this as a kid... thank you

[Pulsar205]

This was the reverse of The Quatermass series with John Mills, where the only the young were affected by alien signals.

This stuff is real, only it's demonic forces telling us to hate each other and live for our own egos regardless. Even so, to return to a time where you have religious nutters everywhere burning witches, is just as insane.

[NotJustAlan]

Wow! I watched this when I was just five and it's lurking in my head ever since. I had this morbid fascination with overhead power cables and pylons for many years after and always tried to pass under then as quickly as possible - while listening to them hum. This needs to be released on DVD.

[Pulsar205]

I used to find them fascinating too, sort of mysterious and magical because they gave us power. And the hum! We had some kind of transformer down the end of our garden. I loved that hum. But they say some who live near them are prone to depression.

I was the same age as you when I saw this too. Always remember it as a poison in the pavements, with everyone emigrating to France to get away from it Funny how your mind plays tricks.

[Malcos68]

As I think has been well documented already - this series survives on it's scarcity. Trouble is, like a lot of things, have I remembered it right as so long since I saw this. I was sure before Nicky says "what's wrong with the telly" there was a reference to "just not able to concentrate" [on homework for a test the next day in school]

[SurrealAspie]

You are right about the line. "I know but I can't concentrate, my brain feels all clogged up." as she trys to revise for a test.

[Malcos68]

That first episode I'm sure has been "edited", I saw this when new and repeated and I THINK definitely edited - there was a bit more before the father struck the telly

[SurrealAspie]

Malcos68. I have edited things about for this montage but the father beating the telly is as it was. (you see him later out of breath lighting a pipe) The 9-6-1976 transmission of part one had two cuts, the smashing of machines in the kitchen (only the light flashing was kept in) and when the mother feels labour pains when attempting to bord the boat to France. I know this as I recorded the 1976 showing in audio, hence the BBC1 continuity at the start of this montage.

[SurrealAspie]

PS. There was conversation about the weather before the TV plays up. This I cut for youtube.

[arcofneptune3000]

I saw this when I was about 8 yrs old. I think in the last episode there's a scene where th girl is leading the children down a road, and some grown-up thug jumps out at them. The children then raise their bricks and sticks at him and he runs off!! I thought even at my young age that that was kinda improbable , and he would have given those kids a hiding!  like i got every day,,, :-(

[ian4kylieandlego]

hi, i liked the beginning all the fast motion and the music also the old bbc logo quite bold!!! i liked the explosion too

keep it up with the good videos my friend!!

[jonnovids]

Thanks for posting this clip.

This programme is etched in my memory and really spooked me as a kid. The pylons, that noise and the stone.. classic stuff !

[kevtherev]

I am looking for the names of some of the programmes that would be on TV from the eastern bloc in the 70's and 80's in the UK. They always seemed to revolve around the young pioneers and were mainly in black and white.....am I making this up??

[waazman]

I remember "White horses", & "Belle & sebastian", think they were hungarian, all dubbed.

[brunster64]

I remember white Horses which was hungarian I think the rest were mainly American like Casey Jones and the Whirlybirds.

The Changes was very creepy - gave me nightmares for years.

[ThePeoplesPalace]

This harrowed me when I was very young, I was born in 1971 and if this was shown in 1975 then I was only four! Nightmares for weeks!

[sillytinx]

Does anyone remember these programmes? 'Shadows' - which opened with an 'empty' rocking chair and 'Nobody' (I think it was called) which was about a boy from the past that only a few children could see??

[arcofneptune3000]

Sillytinx - I remember that! the empty rocking chair was creepy! wasn't there also the sound of disembodied children's voices? Very trippy and disturbing fare we grew up on!

[sillytinx]

I could only remember the Sky vs Earth (or so I thought) issue and the pylons! I'm so glad I've seen this - I thought I was the only one who remembered this or had made it up!!

[GasheadAli]

I thought I was the only person who remembered this series. Thank you for posting this.

[antichicmusic]

Help!!! I am looking for a 1977 series called "out of bounds",it had a kraftwerk style theme,which similar to "The Changes" had me having nightmares as a kid...I have been looking for years and I sometimes think the series never existed...If this was a kids series,I think it had quite an impact on my already disturbed magic roundabout brain at the age of 7. AJ,germany

[GasheadAli]

I think 'Out of Bounds' was about a gymnast whose brother was supposed to be a criminal. Can't remember the theme tune but I remember this to be a great series.

[borgduck]

This thing about kids shows being too creepy in the 70's is true. That was bloody scary I've got to see this!

[Balthesia]

Thanks so much for posting this. I was 8 when I first saw it and I spent years afterwards trying to remember what it was called. The plylons terrified me.

[aarthoor]

Classic stuff, all I remember about it was the noise. Scared the life out of me when I was 7!

[yz25098uk]

the bbc are crap at releasing stuff.

i remember seeing this first time round when i was 8 years old.

the stone changing the weather was excellent, and the whole programme was proper scary at the time.

this needs to be released totally in its original form on a dvd.

10 episodes would be no probs.

aahhh, the memories.

thanks for putting this up.

[madamez01]

Oh WOW I am so happy to have seen this again and *finally* after 30 years to have seen bits of the first episode, because I missed it, and only started watching the programme at the second episode having had all my schoolfriends going mad about it.

[mcan4287]

My god, what a waster! Not the Soda Stream!

[romarfleet]

For years I've been going on about this programme about a rock in a cave and it controling people but no one had ever heard of it. Least I can show them this to prove I'm not going mad!! Thanks so much for posting it.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Remember Davy Gordon, a very alarming weirdo.

[DFORCE1969]

I remember this as a 6 yr old;very disturbing!

[sfocata]

Aah... brings back (very distant) memories. No need for a remake, though... just petition the BBC to show the original again!

[mruresm8]

OMG thankyou so much for posting this, pure nostalgia, and in some ways similar to that FANTASTIC BBC tv series ''Survivors''!!!!!!!! 5 Stars

[ianmax69]

I remember "Out of Bounds" too and "Break in the Sun" Even as a six year old this had me gripped I watched it at my Aunties every week!

I would love the BBC to Re run some old Childrens dramas of the seventies.. my personal favourite was "King Cinder"with Peter Duncan..

[avidviewer67]

I agree with you there, ianmax69. Failing that, BBC Worldwide should bring them out on DVD!

These excellent children's drama serials richly deserve to be seen again, instead of languishing in the BBC vaults without an audience forever... :-(

[metalbearuk]

To the people who want this to be remade-NO!!

Not only would it be ruined, but the kids of today are mostly too thick to settle down and watch a drama of this calibre!

[BaddaBigBoom]

If it got re-made we'd have to smash it up and run off with the Sikhs! Seriously tho -what ever happened to older kids' programmes like this? I wanna see 'Out Of Bounds' now! (Bet u don't remember that one) Ah the memories :-)

[HMSHECLA]

One of my earliest TV memorys. A release on DVD is long over due as this is a highley original and well made 70s series.

[FrankSidebottom]

This wasn't kids telle, this used to put the ----- up me.

quality TV........A classic

[sightvisit]

The 'frightening noise' brings it back.... Not seen this in 32 years, but remember a lot of it vividly.

[Dinglescum]

fantastic! I've been looking for this for thirty years. Why is this not rated as the classic that it deserves to be?

[lemonpot]

my god! that mumbling stone... i forgot about that freak!!!!!!!!!! fantastic. no onder i have turned out the way i have with oll those weird 70's programmes. thank god too-kids today miss out...

[zaraigor]

Scenes from this have always stayed with me too, no wonder I turned out like I did...

[lemonpot]

ha ha! i had not read your post... snap!!!!

[lemonpot]

my post "ha ha" was in reply to you my friend.

[flicker66]

I was poop-scared by this as a kid! It was top stuff. They could air this now on Beeb 1 and frighten a new generation but they might just laugh at the hairstyles and fashions!

[TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Always remembered the last scenes with the underground rock and Merlin references, but never knew the name of the series. Sod a remake, they should re-release the original on DVD.

[Dildano]

This must have clashed with something - I only remember the last episode!

[rongorongo]

"For the older viewer". I wasn't and this scared the crap out of me. I see why now. Great series!

[mrtsw]

Fantastic series i remenber it so well, wish it was on DVD! did not know uk gold had shown it

[bluenile35]

I remember this very well. I've also read the book.

Very unsettling but great drama. No one at the BBC now would have the guts to do anything like that.

[Gayunderweather]

Creepy stuff. Amazingly it was made for kids this series. A kind of Survivors for children. I wish the BBC still made decent kids drama just like this one, today.

[muddyflucker]

I have strong memories of this as a child.. It really scared me.