"Sky" (1975) TV series

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

7 April 1975 (UK)

Genre:

Family | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A young time-traveller with superhuman powers is stranded on Earth after running into a Black Hole. Pursued by the evil Goodchild...

Plot Keywords:

Black Hole | Revenge Of Nature | Mysticism | Stone Circle | Alternate Dimension

Cast

Marc Harrison	...	Sky (7 episodes, 1975)
Richard Speight	...	Roy Briggs (7 episodes, 1975)
Stuart Lock	...	Arby Vennor (7 episodes, 1975)
Cherrald Butterfield	...	Jane Vennor (7 episodes, 1975)
Robert Eddison	...	Goodchild (5 episodes, 1975)
Jack Watson	...	Major Briggs (5 episodes, 1975)
Ursula Barclay	...	Nurse (2 episodes, 1975)
Frances Cuka	...	Mrs Vennor (2 episodes, 1975)
Meredith Edwards	...	Tom (2 episodes, 1975)
Thomas Heathcote	...	Mr Vennor (2 episodes, 1975)
Gerard Hely	...	Dr Saul (2 episodes, 1975)
Monica Lavers	...	Nurse (2 episodes, 1975)
Prunella Ransome	...	Susannah (2 episodes, 1975)

Runtime:

30 min (7 episodes)

Country:

UK

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Avebury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Company:

HTV

Trivia:

Originally, the producers were looking for a child actor with natural fair hair and blue eyes. Although physically wrong for the part, seventeen year old Bristol-born actor Marc Harrison so impressed the production team, that they offered him the role, substituting the natural features with a blonde wig and contact lenses.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Epidode four: In the consulting room scene with Goodchild and Dr Saul, the boom practically rests on tall Goodchild's head.

Quotes:

Sky: The Juganet is a circle, The circle is a machine, The point is a paramagnetic intersection.

Still interesting, but a little too right-on

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 :)