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UGLY LITTLE BOY - ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE (1977)
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- Gem of a tv play produced by TVOntario in 1977, shot on location at the Ontario Science Centre. Starring Guy Big from Frightenstein as the Ugly Boy.
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I saw this in my 7th grade class...40 YEARS ago...!!!!! It stayed with me to this day and I could not remember the name. Thought I would never see it again!!!!!
What?! That means you're SO old!!
Exactly the same for me! My mom was a teacher, and I remember seeing this with her when I was very little. I honestly thought I had dreamt this until I found this video!
@@OctoberGeek
Wow! So, we got TWO oldies in here!!
@@nicksweeney5176 For a lot of oldies who remember the era, and the building, bookmark these videos as you’ll never be able to visit the building again as of yesterday (June 22, 2024).
@@nicksweeney5176 Ha. I just assume most of us here are Gen X.
Watched this with my mom she told me this isn’t science fiction its a documentary of her early life as a mother looking after me and my brother.
BURN
LOL
Cool mom, I wish mine had a sense of humor like that.
I was in as soon as that synthesizer music started up.
The soundtrack is so awful and I love it.
One dude on a synthesizer.
In the Moog
From a short story by Isaac Asimov. Didn't know it had ever been filmed. Loved the story, though. I've read it many times. It was in a collection I loved that was in our high school library called Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Asimov.
I also read this as a kid-had no idea it was made into a movie. The story is great-as are all of Asimov’s.
Ah what a gem, good find Retrontario.
I see what you did there, Retrontario... Very clever! Also very sad that the building will never operate as-is ever again... Just as sad as when Scarborough's TTC Line 3 went down...
The synth score is so epic.
Star of the show …Mini Moog
I thought he was called Timmy😜
This is the most potent, concentrated distillate of seventies Canadiana I've ever seen. When you see them wheeling out the OCR font, you know you're in for a good time.
I'll submit the hypothesis that whoever made this film was high as 🤪😶🌫️🫠
Kate Reid also played a doctor in the movie Andromeda Strain, which in a way gives a similar vibe.
Now I recognize her.
She should've gotten an Oscar nomination for "The Andromeda Strain."
I just scored that soundtrack on vintage vinyl. What a cool record!!!!
I was just going to write that!! She was great in that film.
Watch this in CBC on my 5th Grade Class in 1986 on TV. Re-watched this many times on 16mm film that I borrowed from the library and rented their projector in 1988. It was magical watching on a large screen projector in 1988. Has been my favourite short film up to the 1999.
A classic moment from tv past! I believe I saw this in school as well. A great stiry, and great acting. That synth score is haunting.
Classic
Kate Reid was fantastic.
By haunting, do you mean annoying and dated?
@@mattskustomkreationsDated by whose standard?
@@MikeRotch-ur7sx Dated by 2024 standards. Actually, that sound was dated by the 80s.
It was a co-production with a British company. There were six episodes in all, although this was the only science fiction one.
One of the others was a Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
There was an accompanying textbook, with all of the scripts in them. I still have my copy.
This film the only 16 mm print I own, I have fond memories in high school English classes back in 1982.
It’s the Actress from “The Andromeda Strain”!!!!
Wow, this is a first for me. Never heard of this at all...then again I was born in 81 so. I love this stuff though - such a different time. Thanks for posting it.
Barry Morse from The Fugitive and Space 1999.
Also from The Shape Of Things To Come which was also filmed in Ontario, parts of which were shot in Ontario place.
@@n.h.s.a.d.m. I saw that online once. I forgot about that one.
@@n.h.s.a.d.m. That was a horrible movie..as in really, really bad.
Also played an evil playwright in a Twilight Zone episode around 1960. "A Piano in The House"
He had a small role in The Changeling. Such a good movie.
First time seeing this...really liked it. The nurse and the Neanderthal boy really actually favored each other for real....
Save the Science Centre
Man I feel old .I remember this when I was a kid.
I remember watching this in school and afterward we referred to her as The Ugly Little Nurse. Uncharitable, I know.
I read Asimov's short story years ago. If I recall correctly, they built a little house inside the stasis bubble for the kid, and popping the bubble was a "gross mechanical action" facilitated by running a rope from a lever at the center of the house to the outside. The nurse simply reached up and pulled the rope. She cost that company a fortune in energy.
That kind of love and sacrifice is priceless.
I dont remember seeing that exhibit when I went ad a kid. Lmao
Little Dracula from Hilarious House of Frightenstein plays the Ugly Boy
Yep, his name was Guy Big. He passed away soon after this film was made, in 1978.
Alan Herbert Hoffman
The writer & producer, Don Thompson, was my mom's cousin.
Sweet!!! He made a great video.
I literally just shit myself and jumped out of my seat when I saw that the little guy. It hit me like a ton of bricks! OMG!! Holy shit! I remember this! LOL
I grew up in the 70s. I miss those days watching good tv like this. TV was always about doing the right thing.
I remember when he had the hissy fit with the bottles
I’m going through a lot so I couldn’t finish this right now, getting a bit emotional for me. But I like this video because it resonates with what happened to me when I had a 3% chance of living , and had pneumonia, in the hospital as a baby.
Here. Have some attention.
wow, you've taken the whole 'desperately concocted victimhood out of total nonsense' thing to a spectacularly dumbfounding new level. bravo!
@@noserly lol exactly.
I'm sorry for the immature replies you've received thus far. Hope you feel better soon.
@@MooseCall In addition to getting that sweet attention, you’ve allowed this poster to gain status points and social credit via this outward show of definitely real compassion.
A great story, thanks for uploading this!
If it wasn’t for this type of entertainment short people would not be I show business
First thing I thought was he would probably have trouble breathing and eating and drinking any of our normal food and drinks inc water. They were living in a totally different atmosphere and climate which effected the food and water. Not to mention all the different immunities we have that they 100% did not have. But it's just a movie and it's from 1977 so I really shouldn't complain.
If only this show was a minute longer. I would have been able to see where the nurse and boy ended up.
Ooh, I love my ugly boy
So rough and tough
Don't care about anything but me
Yes, I just love him 'cause he's so crazy
Just crazy about me
So this is where Tim and Eric got inspiration for DeeVee.
OMG I remember this when I was a kid close to 50 years ago!! We watched it at my elementary school. Wow this is amazing!
I remember beaming in my own Neanderthal at the Ontario Science Center in 1982. His name was Kek and I kept him in the shed eating hamburger helper until Mom found him. Boy was she mad.
My wife and I both burst into tears the first time Timmy called the nurse "mama" 😭 OMG ❤💔
Stars of Andromeda Strain, Space 1999 and The Starlost all in one show!
Retro Ontario indeed - with Moriyama's iconic OSC building now doomed (due in no small part to various acts of provincial neglect), such documents may be all we have by which to remember it. The OSC should have been protected as a heritage building; people's ignorance of the cultural/historical importance of 'brutalism', techno-futurism and megastructuralism ("They're cold and ugly...I feel so diminished...so alienated..." Oh, f-in' please! And who ever felt alienated in the OSC? - it was fabulous! - Moriyama understood the dramaturgical potential of the site AND the theatrical experience of science) is not an excuse for letting such buildings - foundational to Canada's emergence as a middle power after the war - crumble because, to quote the enlightened mind of Premier Ford, '[They've] had [their] day". Nor should the chic, if usually apt, urbanism of Jane Jacobs, Charles Montgomery et al. ('Buildings must die...") be precipitately misapprehended in its application to revision of cities. What's next? Scarborough College? (U of T, Scarborough). Maybe the OGA was on to something..."If we false-front the Gallery with a Starchitect retro fit maybe the no-nothings will keep their hands off!"
wow, too much time on your hands huh
Starring Guy BIG, with music by Patricia Cullen?!
Damn, that ending hit hard
😭
LoL Guy Big sounds like a porn star name.
That little bastard is probably still living in there!
The cave baby is played by a young
Nelson Van Alden..
He was later on
"Boardwalk Empire"....he never lost his trademark looks
🤔😲🤪
is that the guy who played the mini dracula opposite of Billy Van in Hilarious House of Frightenstein? a few shots it looks like him
Yes, it must be.
Thanks. This story asks a simple question: " who are the real savages here?".
The native americans
I don't know how many times I read this story - it's appeared in many anthologies over the years. I never saw this, though.
Classic!
For decades I have been trying to remember more about this creepy movie. I only remember a few scenes and have been trying to find any clue as to what it was since I saw it in the 70's. Just saw the video show up today and this was it. I remember it being disturbing and yep, it's just like I remember...
That little boy grew up to be the premier of Ontario.
🤣
Actors do find their way into politics.
Truly a Canadian Vignette.
What the.....!? I know this is the science center but what did my eyeballs just see? Maybe the most bizarre seventies-licious thing ever!!! Lol..
Good description
I remember seeing this in school
what the hell
😂😂😂 just some good ol' can con !
@@MM1717mm lol
Can corn
18:50 When it's past noon and I don't gots my Timmies in me.
Blame the Ford government for shutting down the Ontario Science Centre.
The stench of this whole closure...
It’s unforgivable.
It's right from their playbook. Anything publicly funded that they don't want to pay for, cut or stop paying for it, in this case maintenance. Then let it rot or fester until you have "no choice" but to close it and re-invent as a PPP. Health Care and Education are breaking and broken because it is their plan. The Science Centre is one more example. May as well move to the US.
@@Brackcycle I live in SF Bay Area; hometown of Vancouver, BC has a good provincial govt. Doug Ford is really a Republican.
Time for some condo rezoning lets go boiiiiiis
Either First Choice or Superchannel aired this as well. I remember the "Classics Dark and Dangerous" anthology series popping up on the CBC (Saturday nights I recall). It was a mostly British production; the only other episode I did manage to see was "The Rocking Horse Winner".
I remember that too!
Ontario Science Centre still has that oddly-futuristic look to it
Paul Williams in one of his lesser known roles.
I used to see him walking down Sunset Blvd all the time around 2011. He's pretty short.
They rushed the casting without reading script. The nurse looks at least 62 but the story says she is 42.
They didn’t want the Science Centre to last, why they didn’t spend on the maintenance. It doesn’t just happen by accident 😂
3:15 nicky guadagni, who played dr helen holloway in 1997's "cube"
Guess she will be seeing what mammoths are like.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
Looks like a depilated Chaka from Land of the Lost
Meth Chaka
Dollar Store Chaka
@@quentincollins1825
Not allowed to post:
"Meth Chaka"
Why??
What's the violation?
@@asynchronicity YT doesn't like that word I'm afraid. Funny, the other day I started a post with "methinks"....that wasn't allowed either. 🙄
@@quentincollins1825 ridiculous algo
ontario knows how to rock !
This was actually really good!
...Naaa.... That is just how all of us kids looked in the late 70's and early 80's.
16:19 "I am Mu Lambda 165. May I be of...assistance?"...william osler from "starlost"
Gonna tell my kids this is Harry and the Hendersons
[13:49] Did this actress appear as "Mrs. Mac" in 'Black Christmas'? This cast is wonderful.
No.
Yeah I recognized her too. Also with SCTV's Andria Martin, Black Christmas is a Canadian classic.
Marian Waldman is the actress in Black Christmas and Deranged. She is NOT in this film.
@@movingkindaslow YES she is in this film. you can see her face here: 13:49 She seems to have performed this roll without credit which is why people may think she never appeared in the movie.
@@mcg6866 WOW, I completely missed the timestamp. I thought everyone was confusing her for Kate Reid. My apologies, I was wrong. :(
Hmmmm....bring a neandrethal to the present timeline and send him back along with someone/something from the present? Sounds like the butterfly effect could be upon them all. This was actually not bad.
@phillydisco very true. And did they keep tis kid in a sterile environment with no exposure to germs? She could bring back a germ that wipes them all out!
Actually this would explain alot about what we observe of interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals as well as the extinction of the Neanderthals which occured around the same time as the interbreeding events which could be the result of diseases brought back in time by this very woman. Fascinating documentary.
@@Jo-JoandTaffy even though this was science fiction, it raises a lot of what-ifs, doesn't it? Reminds me of something I would have read in Analog Magazine or Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine years ago.
@@joefell5311 ...Well, have I got a surprise for you. This story originally appeared in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. It was written by...
....
...
...
...Yep. Isaac Asimov.
@@Jo-JoandTaffy seriously? Go figure. That's too funny. I used to take out those magazines at the library when I was a teenager in the 80's. I was surprised to find the magazine seems to still be published all these years later when doing a Google search.
Very cool!
XOXO best era
Is there a sequel? I need to know what happened! Did she go back and have other children with the tribe? Could her actions have changed the course of modern history?!
Or did they returns back in time as one giant blob of Neanderthal and human combined?
WOWWWWWWW... took
me right back to the
first time watching
this (1980 or so)
after reading the
short story as
a teenager.
Thanks For These
Memories 👍🏾🙏🏾👊🏾
When did that guy make fleet commander.
exquisite
feel like Jimmy sometimes - she helps even though I'm an ancient ugly child
MST3K...
Are you ready FOR SOME FOOT BALL????
Any holiday streams coming up in the future? wish you had a schedule
so did it really send them back or just evaporate them?
I might have watched too much Science Alliance but the woman at 3:15 looks like one of the hosts. Also the woman examiner at 9:25 had a small part in Overdrawn At The Memory Bank and she may have even appeared on Polkadot Door *memory hazy*. Thanks, Retrontario!
3:15 nicky guadagni, who played dr helen holloway in 1997's "cube"
In a different way, the ending reminds me of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. They would give everything for the person they love, or nothing matters.
Brought to you by Radio Shack.
Music is the deal
Holy fuckin fever dream!
She looks like late 50s not early 40s.
Totally.
Kate Reid, Barry Morse..?? and he's directing? And that's the guy who played the computer from StarLost.. Wait! This is the movie I've been searching for. The lighting is balls, but otherwise... excellent
The way she was trying to get him to talk was painful to watch. I liked the synth, and ugly make up though.
As someone who has strong feelings against graves being disturbed for science, this evoked some strong emotion from me. Glad I took the time to watch it. I’m not a religious or spiritual person, but can we not leave the dead in peace?
Uh, the kid was very much alive.
@@StefferKatz
Yep
Torn from his time to be “observed” by evident sociopaths
There is no way in hell that lady is 42!
She looks like an average 42 year old woman in Oklahoma.
@@sibco96 She was 46 or 47 when it was released but still looked a bit older than that.
OK. Abducting a Neanderthal child from the past seems like a really bad idea for any number of reasons. Putting aside the ethical considerations, what could possibly go wrong? 11:15
Ahh back when the government of Ontario actually funded the Ontario Science Centre properly.....
Was that a Jurassic Park jeep at the beginning? Lol.
Professor Bergman is going slumming.
Bull If someone from today when back to tha time how long would they survive
The air would probably kill them
Or they'd catch a common cold and die
Tracking, tracking....TRACKING dammit!
16:56, what did ya do to that poor guy's chicken finger?
4:36 looks like baby Warf from StarTrek TNG
Is this the star wars holiday special?
No it's the garbage pails kid the movie