Sky

This is one of those seventies classics a bit like the Aztec chocolate bar..A series about the battle of good vs evil, that I remember rushing home from school to watch.I can only remember bits and pieces,but i'm now torn as to whether i should try and track down a copy if possible. Sadly if i do it'll probably be appalling, as i'm no longer 11 years of age.I wouldn't mind an Aztec bar though...............

I thought this was great fun. I only heard of it recently and accidentally and am astonished it exists. The title character is a cosmic traveller gone astray; his look is a cross between David Bowie and Jesus Christ - his spiel too, albeit with a touch of steely ruthlessness, amoral survival instinct and the anger of Jesus with the moneylenders - and he's destined to become a god. But he doesn't belong in this time and place so he's attacked by Nature itself - vines and leaves and winds and a sinister human incarnation of it. It's inventive and intelligent and properly creepy and eerie at times. I don't want to spoiler the various neat touches and good developments, but to give you a taste one episode features an excellent sort of were-crow almost as a throwaway bit. It starts off quite good and gets better and wilder as it goes on. But if you can't get along with 70s special effects, forget it.

So glad I've found this on IMDb.Many's the time I've thought back to the strange, delicate,alien boy from my childhood viewing days. Sky had blue eyes - I mean all blue, no pupils, and was the stuff of my childish fantasies (I was 9, so he probably played Sindy's with me...) and when the Evil forces were coming to do unspeakable things to him, the wind would blow and the leaves would whoosh around in a sort of Force of Nature warning...Ooh I've come over all funny again. I absolutely loved it and would give anything to get my hands on an episode. I understand HTV only have 5 out of 7 left - come on guys, release them - I'm tired of watching my Trumpton DVD's...Did it have an unhappy ending - I seem to remember Sky disappearing - in anguish or triumph? Please let me know someone. I really need to watch this again so please contact me if you have any information as to Sky's whereabouts...

In the 1970s, HTV cornered the market in quirky and bizarre fantasy half hours, always memorable, not always good. This oddity is fair, and concerns a beautiful blue-eyed blond alien with decidedly earthbound teeth who arrives on Earth at the wrong time and has to find his way to the right time zone. The Earth invokes a sort of immune system which tries to reject him, and he is pursued by the sinister Goodchild, who is perhaps a little too like a geography teacher to be wholly convincing as an avenging agent of nature. Sky's powers, and gradual loss of power, create a lot of tension, and Meredith Edwards lends a touch of class as the simple-minded Tom. Perhaps just too silly to be scary, a little too earnest to be eccentric, and with an unconvincing and predictable conclusion (you do not have to be tuned into the forces of the cosmos to work out what the Juganet is) it is still worth seeing, and all told it is not very much like anything else, which is an achievement for writers Baker and Martin.

I really thought i'd imagined or dreamt of a programme from the 1970's called SKY about an alien boy rising from the leaves in a forest, with very, very bright blue eyes... but the last time I looked was probably a couple of years ago I could only find a couple of references which were really vague ... but as it was made by Wales' 'local' TV station HTV, I thought there was little hope of ever seeing it again. However... prompted by Facebook quizzes, I looked again today and just found out it's being released in June 09. It does look like they have the whole series albeit with 2 episodes from another source. How cool is that?!!

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