Kappatoo

I rewatched kappatoo,brought back awe feeling deepdown. 25+yrs and could still remember kappa and the watch.

Relatively funny and still quite watchable even today.

The first series pretty much followed the two books that Ben Steed wrote Kappatoo and Kappatoo a stich in time. Then carried on further leading a cliff hanger ending. Two years later Kappatoo 2 followed on from the first series but at a somewhat reduced level of quality.

As stated above the second series ended on somewhat of a cliff hanger. Whether there were any plans for a third series will likely never be known.

But a relatively new and unheard-of writer Edmund Ashton has written a story which takes place twenty years after the events of the final episodes cliff hanger and also takes place in the same universe and includes the characters from another popular sci-fi miniseries for young adults

The Girl from Tomorrow a Screen Australia production.

Unfortunately, when requesting permission to publish, Ben Steed's estate was unable to grant permission because of a complex rights situation. Leaving this miniseries equivalent to a certain symphony by Franz Schubert.

(All the episodes had "Time" in the title.)

Based on Ben Steed's books about the title character, "Kappatoo" was a light-hearted science fiction adventure that ran for two series about a boy called Simon in the present day who found out that he had a "time-twin" in the future called Kappatoo, who needed his help, which required that the two of them change places - Simon getting together with Kappatoo's computer (who was in human form, played by comedian Andrew O'Connor), and Kappatoo coping with the present day - with hilarious consequences...

Okay, I wouldn't say hilarious, but they were entertaining enough; series one is notable for featuring Denise Outen (before she had surgery to implant the "Van") as Simon's crush object Tracey - one episode had her becoming duplicated, not a nice idea nowadays - while the second series cast Nicholas Parsons as a smarmy quiz show host (now there's a stretch) in the future, whose quiz Simon - being a genius, unlike Kappatoo - had to take part in while Kappatoo was in the present.

At the end of that series there was an opening for a third one (Kappatoo's archenemy Sigmasix turned out to have his own time-twin in Simon's era), but it never came about. We call it Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Syndrome...