Children of the Stones - Episode 7 [Final Episode] (part 3)

[N4TH4NJ4Y]

You can walk around the Avebury stone circle in Google Streetview. Spooky!

[LorraineGrant]

This series is brilliant, the story line intense, and all characters act really well. I watched it when it was first screened and have become addicted to it.

[misswillingtolearn]

Thank you so much for sharing with us all these great episodes ! God bless you always !

[dpurves28]

Thank you so much for uploading this series. I was recently thinking about when this and others were broadcast on Nickelodeon in the early 80s. I found this one to be especially creepy, back then as well as now. It surprisingly hasn't lost its effectiveness, despite my now watching it as an adult. I know I didn't really understand it back then. I'm not sure I completely understand it even now. ;)

[eveningtsar]

Funny really: back then, a lot of British programs had budgetary restraints that necessitated small casts and small sets, making them look like rather humble stage productions.

The upshot of this was, as a child watching these shows, you got the feeling that these kinds of adventures could easily happen to you. You really don't get that with today's more lavish productions. . .

[Mindphaser76]

What a brilliant, smart, atmospheric and unforgettable little series. Fantastic music as well. Thankyou, sir.

[freezframe100]

@palatiality you took the words right out of my mouth.Back in 1977/78 when I was 5/6yrs old,I saw this also and suffered from horrific nightmares because it-no word of a lie.! Now aged 40, 34/35 yrs later,thanks to these uploads,Ive watched it again,and I have to admit its after giving me the **Hee-Bee-Gee-Bees**yet again!-mainly thanks to the creepy singing.

[HELLO2YOU3]

Now i Can Appreciate Just What A Wonderful Program That Was Thank You For Up Load.Be Seeing You.

[puddypuss]

its mrs butler from on the buses

[codybonnet]

Brilliant! I stumbled upon this show because I was looking for another British show from the 70s I watched as a kid via P.B.S. that also had a boy and a girl, megaliths, and paranormal activity. This wasn't it, but a great find none-the-less!

[esqueritas]

@codybonnet What you are looking for may be "Escape Into Night" which was far scarier as it was out and out horror for kids with no adults for protection. I was 12 and still remember it vividly. 

[WrestlingHeretic]

@Timelord90 I think it just takes living in the 1970s, where there was a lot of interest in new age occultism occurring at the same time as the dawning realization in pop culture of where science and technology would be heading.

[memmie1104]

Shows for British children are very different than what we had here in the states during the 1980's. I was looking for different shows that my grandchildren may enjoy, when I came upon this show. I found it very unique, but I don't think it's one I will let my grandchildren watch. They would have nightmares forever. Thanks for uploading it. It's been quite an experience watching it.

[sislau]

Out of curiosity, I went to google maps, put in Avebury, Wilshire England (where this series was filmed) ... Guys, you can walk through the very streets, see the same houses, come right up to the stones! (with a little research through the episodes) I even located the very hill they ran up when they were looking for Dai's body ... It's the creepiest location I've ever 'been' to ... I highly recommend it! :0

[WrestlingHeretic]

@sislau I've been there in real life, and I highly recommend that too!

[LorraineGrant]

@sislau Watching this has made me want to go to Avebury.

[brunster64]

Brings back memories - lets hope it doesn't bring back the nightmares I had after watching it as a child. Thanks for your hard work in posting them all :)

[joohop]

thnx 4 uploadin this i remem it yearz ago

subscribed :)

[rgpaddler]

What a fantastic story to put on for kids - I don't remember understanding it of course as I was about 9 years old - I remember building a model of the stone circle out in the garden - but it blummin well puts mindless Hollyoaks and other kids TV these days to shame! Excellent - enjoyed the whole thing,thanks very much indeed.

[LorraineGrant]

@rgpaddler That's imaginative, to make a stone circle in the garden! I was always trying to dig trenches and create streams and ponds in our garden.

[paulstin]

Yes i remember that series, the boy was invalid i think, and a girl used to vist him. 

[MrPnisHead]

I dont remember watching this as a child but when I began watching, it reminded me of another series in the mid to late 70s. In that series there was a village with stones and the stones could move. If I remember correctly there was a child who could control the stones using a pencil, eraser and drawing book.

Does anyone remember that other series and its name?

Thanks.

[pitsillia7]

@MrPnisHead

I remember this too, but I can't remember the name of the series. There was one episode where the girl was in a house on her own and the stones had surrounded it. There was a frightening scene when she realises the stones were actually inside the room. ISTR the stones made a horrible screaming sound too.

[pitsillia7]

@MrPnisHead

You got me thinking. I searched online and found `escape into night' which was the name of the moving stones series. There are a couple of websites if you run the title through Google.  There was a remake in 1988 called `Paperhouse' - there are short clips on youtube of both.

[MrPnisHead]

@pitsillia7 OK Thanks.

[nonearthlychildren]

Well that was a treat. Thanks for uploading this. I recall as a very young kid watching this - I must have been about 12. Compare TV like this from then with ones today and then tell me there has not been a systematic dumbing down and sexualisation of young people in the years since. If this programme was onto today it would be riddled with endless Common Purpose drafted NLP dealing with PC issues. The dialogue would be infantile. Children back then were more intelligent and creative. Thanks USA

[drsamsara]

I remember finding this show utterly obscure as a young fellow. Rewatching it after 30 years...I'm still utterly confused.  Did they rewrite history?

[WrestlingHeretic]

@drsamsara

Sort of. It's a parallel world story. You have to listen closely to catch it, because they only say it once (when Adam says "we're in a 'now' that's parallel with our own"). After Matt and Adam outwitted Hendrick and broke the circle, they were able to cross over back into the "real" world (where everyone is normal and Matt is the smartest kid in class). The problem is that Milbury is a time bubble, so now it's going to start up again in the "real" world, and cycle endlessly.

[VinnyMonster1]

@WrestlingHeretic Exactly what I thought the first time I saw it. They just don't make kids shows like this anymore. Come to think of it, they hardly make adult shows like this anymore either!

[MooBoo1979]

Would the kids at the time have understood what the ending encompassed and the context of the whole series, because, heck, I don't think I did!

[WrestlingHeretic]

@MooBoo1979

Perhaps not, but it challenged the kids to understand it, which is something that never happens anymore in children's television--- challenging them.

[RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF]

missed the middle , a prick called stalin dubbed em

[MrTonyInchpractice]

...what?