There was an unsubstantuated theory that last years riots where in part caused by massive solar flares,effecting behaviour watching this, I began to wonder! Ahh, Bob Baker and Dave Martin, excellent writers, They wrote for DR Who in the 1970's, and created the character of K9, and this was also one of those TV programes that has stayed with me over the years.
I saw this in 1975 when I was eleven. I've been wanting to see it again ever since. thank you.It still looks good aged 47 . I hope one day the powers that be will do a digitally cleaned up dvd. Did you get your user name from Sparky comic; it had great characters like Hungry Horace, Keyhole Kate, Pansy Potter. Childhood in the seventies was pretty exciting, then the internet came along and it could all be retrieved.
sassy68 thank you so much, for years i have asked everyone "do you remember the pylons?" no one did! I didnt remember much except those terifying pylons. watching it this time i remember more and now i know why my memories were so scary.
i loved this. got the VHS. i just watched 'Sky' from 1976 on youtube, which i never saw back then. i love the Quote about Davey Gordon, some way in to the adventure .. he can smell evil ' even when there isn't any ' classic. the haunting pylon noise stays with me still to thisday, even tho in real they mainly hum and crackle. which is as scary. nasty. if you like this you must surely watch Terry Nations 'Survivors' from 1975/1976 - is the beautifully bleak 'grown up' 'Changes' great TV.
I've been searching for this.. got scared silly by it as a child and never forgot it, but just couldn't recall the title. I'm 43 now and though I am no longer scared by it, it is still a very powerful series.
Interesting that at about 3:50, they use footage from the movie version of 'Quatermass And The Pit', which also features a catastrophic breakdown of society due to a long-buried evil. Us kids were harder in those days. However, I was 12, and there are still aspects of it that make me think: 'Brrr!' Weird as you like.
Brilliant! I was about 7 when this was on and loved it! I remember having to close my eyes and cover my ears whenever we went past electricity pylons though!!
Looking at it now, how wierd that it was a kids programme, on about the same time as Blue Peter and Jackanory on a Monday!!
Thanks - I was 7 when this was shown and (what I dared watch of it) really scared the sh*t out of me. And I was already hooked on Dr Who by this time. This was way scarier than Dr Who!
I don't know what it was about it that made it so frightening - probably the fact that it wasn't immediately clear to me as a 7 year old that it wasn't real - it certainly looked real enough. The noise and the sudden violence were especially scary. Now watching it all the way through for the 1st time - age 43!
Saw this 35 years ago in black and white, still scared the living daylights out of me then, bet a remake would scare many more now, but very thought provoking, even more relevant today in even more ways than they could have dreamed of in 1975.
So thanks for posting this series, Survivors, The day of the Triffids had made a come back on the BBC, this I feel would top them in so many more ways, you have my eternal gratitude.
@lostbhoy3 Agreed. The childrens progs then were much more interesting and thought provoking. I loved this serial, and I read the book as well. Memories.....Another favourite was Children of the stones...that really did scare me!
The BBC would make their money back if all the children who watched it then who are now in their 40s and still are apprehensive about power pylons bought the remastered series on DVD. This show is still dead good and a bit creepy after all these years.I never thought I would ever see it again & began to imagine I had seen it as a child.Nobody here in Ozstriya has grown up with it like I did in the UK.
Thanks Willie for posting this excellent series for us. I was five when it was first shown, and one of my earliest memories is Dad smashing the TV set! I still say "the bad wires" when we pass under pylons to this day. I missed the repeat on UK Gold, so you have provided me with a brilliant way of re-viewing it. A great series, great story, and even cool theme tune by Paddy Kingsland (did the music for Hitch Hikers Guide too). Thanks again Willie - you're a star!
Thanks Willie! I was 5 when this was first broadcast, and missed the damned thing when it was repeated on UK Gold. One of my earliest memories is Dad smashing the TV set - it proper scared me! An excellent series and superb book(s). Peter Dickinson certainly knew his onions as regards a corkingly fine tale. Thanks again - you're a star!
I'll tell u wot any of our kids who say that we watched tv progs as scary as "Thomas the tank engine" when we were there age get them to watch 10 mins. of this they won't take the piss anymore, i still feel really wary of bloody pylons now! and i have my head screwed on and i'm in my 40's lol
There was- 'Children of the stones' and 'The Changes'. These both scared the heck out of me as a kid in the mid 70's. So strange seeing this again. Would love to get it on DVD. But it seems that it has not been released yet.
Children of the Stones is available on DVD. I have it. It's just as creepy now as it was when I first saw it. The music, the creepy acting from Freddie Jones ... F.A.B.
All I needed was a bottle of cresta and a packet of spangles or maybe a texan chew bar and I'd have been right back there ... sadly no sign of The Changes on DVD yet ... or The Tomorrow People
Those Texan bars were great - just 7p. In summer, you would bite and pull as it stretched, in winter, you would bite and bend, and it would shatter! An unsettling series, I remember it quite well..
I emailed the BBC some time ago and they are adamant that it will never ever be released on DVD. I recall it was because the costs of remastering the picture and faults from the orginal tape sound would far out way the sales it would make or something like that. I believe it was shown on UK gold about 92/93 but the BBC will never release it or repeat it again.
So much for the BBC being a PUBLIC SERVICE, they wanna have their cake & eat it don't they. They charge for a tv licence and then when *the public* want a release or repeat of something they don't get it simply because the bbc aren't going to make a profit on it, I'd say they've got a duty, that's the whole meaning of service.
i agree they should be forced by law to put it on a site where people can pay to watch/download it. ridiculous to make something and not release it. I'll have to soldier on with my UK Gold videos. a shame that future generations will never see it.
Nah, future generations WILL see it ! ! ! That's what the internet's all about ! ! ! If we keep pushing it on youtube and isohunt etc, then it can gain modern cult status if those future generations deem it so. I showed this to my daughter of nineteen and she thought was brill !
There was an unsubstantuated theory that last years riots where in part caused by massive solar flares,effecting behaviour watching this, I began to wonder! Ahh, Bob Baker and Dave Martin, excellent writers, They wrote for DR Who in the 1970's, and created the character of K9, and this was also one of those TV programes that has stayed with me over the years.
TheSarahhyde 3 weeks ago
This is better than Skins and Hollyoaks anyway.. l was born too late.
NeedleFactoryTube 2 months ago
Wow! All this stuff from my childhood! Thank you!
Jamesrosscooper 3 months ago
I saw this in 1975 when I was eleven. I've been wanting to see it again ever since. thank you.It still looks good aged 47 . I hope one day the powers that be will do a digitally cleaned up dvd. Did you get your user name from Sparky comic; it had great characters like Hungry Horace, Keyhole Kate, Pansy Potter. Childhood in the seventies was pretty exciting, then the internet came along and it could all be retrieved.
nimrodberliner 3 months ago
@nimrodberliner Yes,I got my user name from the Sparky comic.
WillieGetaway 3 months ago
sassy68 thank you so much, for years i have asked everyone "do you remember the pylons?" no one did! I didnt remember much except those terifying pylons. watching it this time i remember more and now i know why my memories were so scary.
jimmyjay150150 3 months ago
i loved this. got the VHS. i just watched 'Sky' from 1976 on youtube, which i never saw back then. i love the Quote about Davey Gordon, some way in to the adventure .. he can smell evil ' even when there isn't any ' classic. the haunting pylon noise stays with me still to thisday, even tho in real they mainly hum and crackle. which is as scary. nasty. if you like this you must surely watch Terry Nations 'Survivors' from 1975/1976 - is the beautifully bleak 'grown up' 'Changes' great TV.
LinuxManUK 6 months ago
whenevr we talk about old kids progrmmes I am the only one that ever remembers this.It was brilliant!!! is it on DVD??
supernffc 7 months ago
@supernffc google rare tv on dvd , it is available from them
scraggi 3 months ago
great to see this again, weird programme
SuperJohnniefive 8 months ago
I've been searching for this.. got scared silly by it as a child and never forgot it, but just couldn't recall the title. I'm 43 now and though I am no longer scared by it, it is still a very powerful series.
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mikkelvolvo 10 months ago
@mikkelvolvo im the same and 43 scared the shit out of me too
maxandholly1 8 months ago
@mikkelvolvo im the same and 43 scared the shit out of me too at the time!
maxandholly1 8 months ago
Another classic TV show from my childhood!
VinnyMonster1 10 months ago
I'd luv to see this happen in real life, and fix it like the young woman. Awesome show!
chrestomancy1 10 months ago
I was 9 when this came out. This and the Children of the stones used to give me nightmares!
Tim4030 10 months ago
I remember parts of this series, especialy the pylons, I never knew what is was called till about a week ago, can't wait to watch this
Bennyjane2007 1 year ago
Never seen this before, reminds me of the John Mills Quatermass. Well done!
ajivins1 1 year ago
I think I sill have the original book this was based on. Great Concept
ewaf88 1 year ago
I second what MrNorvegicus said,even today the sight of pylons makes me feel a bit wierd and I work in a power station! a 1970's one at that...
uglycustard 1 year ago
I remember this so clearly, I was eight when this was on TV. Thank you for putting this up here.
Dopeydora 1 year ago
The toxic waste would kill everyone off.
ion010101 1 year ago
Interesting that at about 3:50, they use footage from the movie version of 'Quatermass And The Pit', which also features a catastrophic breakdown of society due to a long-buried evil. Us kids were harder in those days. However, I was 12, and there are still aspects of it that make me think: 'Brrr!' Weird as you like.
brianartillery 1 year ago
Brilliant! I was about 7 when this was on and loved it! I remember having to close my eyes and cover my ears whenever we went past electricity pylons though!!
Looking at it now, how wierd that it was a kids programme, on about the same time as Blue Peter and Jackanory on a Monday!!
Butterfly616 1 year ago
OMG, was about 7 when this was on !!! ****
It was that 'I'll hide now', moment !!
vinnie785 1 year ago
@vinnie785 I was about 12 or 13,same age as the girl in serial!! I loved this series, but it was scary! I read the book as well. :)
MrsJosephMerrick 1 year ago
OMG, was about 7 when this was on !!! ****
vinnie785 1 year ago
OMG, was about 7 when this was on !!! Shit me right-up !!! LOL !!!
vinnie785 1 year ago
OMG, was about 7 when this was on !!! Shit me right-up !!! LOL !!!
vinnie785 1 year ago
i was born in 1975 i think i can rember watching it on uk gold ages ago before i went to work on a saturday never seen the end
TheAnyamary 1 year ago
Briliant show-I loved it, I couldn't wait for the following episode. Its ridiculous that the BBC wont release it on DVD/Video
craftysnapper1 1 year ago
Thanks - I was 7 when this was shown and (what I dared watch of it) really scared the sh*t out of me. And I was already hooked on Dr Who by this time. This was way scarier than Dr Who!
I don't know what it was about it that made it so frightening - probably the fact that it wasn't immediately clear to me as a 7 year old that it wasn't real - it certainly looked real enough. The noise and the sudden violence were especially scary. Now watching it all the way through for the 1st time - age 43!
johnny2o2o 1 year ago
Saw this 35 years ago in black and white, still scared the living daylights out of me then, bet a remake would scare many more now, but very thought provoking, even more relevant today in even more ways than they could have dreamed of in 1975.
So thanks for posting this series, Survivors, The day of the Triffids had made a come back on the BBC, this I feel would top them in so many more ways, you have my eternal gratitude.
MTBLeague 1 year ago 2
scary prog this, remember having nightmares about it. great show
lostbhoy3 1 year ago
@lostbhoy3 Agreed. The childrens progs then were much more interesting and thought provoking. I loved this serial, and I read the book as well. Memories.....Another favourite was Children of the stones...that really did scare me!
MrsJosephMerrick 1 year ago
It looks interesting, but it seems strange that bicycles are rejected but wheelbarrows and carts and baby carriages are not.
macrumpton 1 year ago
The BBC would make their money back if all the children who watched it then who are now in their 40s and still are apprehensive about power pylons bought the remastered series on DVD. This show is still dead good and a bit creepy after all these years.I never thought I would ever see it again & began to imagine I had seen it as a child.Nobody here in Ozstriya has grown up with it like I did in the UK.
taariqtaariq 2 years ago 2
ohhh my goodmess!!!!!!
this programme freaked me out when i was little.....thankyou for putting this up.....i waas really tiny......i just remember the pylons.....
thankyou :)
kayway9 2 years ago 2
some weird group consciousness prediction of cell phones?
shine350 2 years ago
Thanks Willie for posting this excellent series for us. I was five when it was first shown, and one of my earliest memories is Dad smashing the TV set! I still say "the bad wires" when we pass under pylons to this day. I missed the repeat on UK Gold, so you have provided me with a brilliant way of re-viewing it. A great series, great story, and even cool theme tune by Paddy Kingsland (did the music for Hitch Hikers Guide too). Thanks again Willie - you're a star!
madvicar 2 years ago 3
Thanks Willie! I was 5 when this was first broadcast, and missed the damned thing when it was repeated on UK Gold. One of my earliest memories is Dad smashing the TV set - it proper scared me! An excellent series and superb book(s). Peter Dickinson certainly knew his onions as regards a corkingly fine tale. Thanks again - you're a star!
madvicar 2 years ago
Thank you so much for upping this!
lcult 2 years ago
I'll tell u wot any of our kids who say that we watched tv progs as scary as "Thomas the tank engine" when we were there age get them to watch 10 mins. of this they won't take the piss anymore, i still feel really wary of bloody pylons now! and i have my head screwed on and i'm in my 40's lol
MrNorvegicus 2 years ago 5
Aren't we all suffering the same kind of silent torment today from Wi-fi masts, cell phone towers and electricity pylons?
d3rr3nbr0wn 2 years ago
the collective consciousness predicting the arrival of cell phones and wI-fi?
wedrinkmountaindew 2 years ago 2
There was- 'Children of the stones' and 'The Changes'. These both scared the heck out of me as a kid in the mid 70's. So strange seeing this again. Would love to get it on DVD. But it seems that it has not been released yet.
duncaninchina 2 years ago
Children of the Stones is available on DVD. I have it. It's just as creepy now as it was when I first saw it. The music, the creepy acting from Freddie Jones ... F.A.B.
All I needed was a bottle of cresta and a packet of spangles or maybe a texan chew bar and I'd have been right back there ... sadly no sign of The Changes on DVD yet ... or The Tomorrow People
SplitTheBeam 2 years ago 3
@SplitTheBeam
Those Texan bars were great - just 7p. In summer, you would bite and pull as it stretched, in winter, you would bite and bend, and it would shatter! An unsettling series, I remember it quite well..
lapford102 1 year ago
I emailed the BBC some time ago and they are adamant that it will never ever be released on DVD. I recall it was because the costs of remastering the picture and faults from the orginal tape sound would far out way the sales it would make or something like that. I believe it was shown on UK gold about 92/93 but the BBC will never release it or repeat it again.
dazzyboy74 2 years ago 3
@dazzyboy74
So much for the BBC being a PUBLIC SERVICE, they wanna have their cake & eat it don't they. They charge for a tv licence and then when *the public* want a release or repeat of something they don't get it simply because the bbc aren't going to make a profit on it, I'd say they've got a duty, that's the whole meaning of service.
m1s73r4nd3rs0n 1 year ago
@m1s73r4nd3rs0n
i agree they should be forced by law to put it on a site where people can pay to watch/download it. ridiculous to make something and not release it. I'll have to soldier on with my UK Gold videos. a shame that future generations will never see it.
dazzyboy74 1 year ago
@dazzyboy74
Nah, future generations WILL see it ! ! ! That's what the internet's all about ! ! ! If we keep pushing it on youtube and isohunt etc, then it can gain modern cult status if those future generations deem it so. I showed this to my daughter of nineteen and she thought was brill !
m1s73r4nd3rs0n 1 year ago
thanks for posting - I am working my way through it - I remember I was riveted at the time.
creepmag62 2 years ago 2
This series scared me as a child.
Laegaire 2 years ago
I can imagine, its a bizzare and nightmarish concept. Does it have a rating? And do you know what time it was aired, was it after the watershed?
billyb4223 2 years ago
It was aired every Monday afternoon at 5.20 -5.45 pm from Jan 6 to Mar 10 1975.
WillieGetaway 2 years ago
If they thought the world was going mad back then...
NickDiPerna 2 years ago
williegetaway and willieeckerslike....i wonder if you two are related
gbanks70 2 years ago
Brilliant - Cant wait to view all 10 episodes!
Kaosapts 3 years ago 3