Sky

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.

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...

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?!!

http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=887

Having looked for this for ages, I was delighted to be able to see it through the magic of the Internet recently.

Like most people, I saw it when I was a child and it made a big impression.

On viewing it now, being much older, the experience was a little disappointing, as was to be expected.

The episodes had very little pace, and the programme makers took incredible liberties with the cliffhangers, often showing something at the start of the episode that wasn't there at the end of the previous one! Sky himself was still as eerie as I remembered, and the use of CSO on his eyes and hands was still effective.

It was a true Friends of the Earth parable, however, and, given that I'm not exactly a supporter of greenie, eco-friendly, anti-science bull, this grated on me.

Only one moment in the series sent a shiver up my spine... when Goodchild was going up the stairs, with the camera focused on his feet, and you saw his creepy cloak just kind of drop into shot, where it hadn't been before!... ooh! All in all, could have done with being 6 episode long instead of 7.

DVD release seems unlikely due to the fact that episodes 3 and 7 only exist in ropey off-air recordings from a domestic Philips 1500 VCR.

There's a definite reluctance to release material in low quality.

Catch it if you can, though, through other methods :)

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...............