BAFTA TV Award |
| 'Harlequin' (Drama/Light Entertainment) |
As an American getting into Doctor Who for the first time as an adult, I was curious about the other celebrated fantasy TV series that British children were watching in the mid-20th century--Escape Into Night, Children of the Stones, The Box of Delights, and The Owl Service. None of those really appeal to my inner child, but the Changes does.
1975 was a vintage year for British sci-fi television drama; I.T.
Hello, i was only 8 years old when i watched the changes, it invokes powerful memories as images of series remind me of Berkeley power station where my father worked most of his life. More recently i have been playing computer game called half life 2, and only just realised some of the in game environments have a similar feel and atmosphere to images that i remember from the changes episodes.
THE CHANGES is one of these shows you watch as a child and you can remember elements all the way in to adulthood . I saw the first episode in January 1976 knowing nothing about and was disturbed as the characters quickly set about destroying any appliance that could vaguely be described as a machine .
I remember watching this as a child during the 1970;s and it scared the livings daylights out of me! It was very ahead of its time when it was made and was completely different to anything else around at that time.
I was poking around on the internet, and found this for download, just billed as "1970s sci-fi, very good". I had never heard of it before, but much of what comes out of the BBC in that era was quite good, and this one did not disappoint.
I first watched this when I was 8 and I blame it for my tinfoil hat mentality today; I still won't have an electric cooker or kettle or a TV in the house! I bought the DVD and, if you are able to suspend disbelief in certain scenes, you will enjoy watching it again.
I can't honestly say I remember or had even heard of this 70's children's television series. So going into it I really didn't know what to expect.
I remember seeing this as a child, and I believe it may even have been repeated soon afterwards. It was quite hard-hitting bleak stuff for the children's slot, and very welcome because of that.
