THE BOY FROM SPACE - THE SCARIEST SCI-FI WE SAW AS KIDS IN THE 80S
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- The Boy From Space was a BBC educational show but it had the unintended consequence of terrorizing an entire generation of children.
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We watched this at school and it scared the shat out of me.
I think every pupil across the UK reacted in the same way.
i was just going to comment the same thing
Gavvallance the same here. I remember it v.well. still think of it today.
Yeah it was absolutely terrifying.
Me too 🤣
Oh my god, never thought I’d find this. I saw this at school and I was scared shitless of that freaky man chasing people!!! I googled ‘children’s tv alien writes backwards’ and found the name of the show. Thank god it was not just me traumatised by it 😂😂
I think it's safe to say that an entire generation was traumatized by this show.
We watched it at school as well. So scary!!
I'm pretty sure Joffrey in Game of Thrones is based on the Boy from Space.
Me too!
Seems YOU WERE NOT ALONE... He gave me nightmares. Watched it at school also....look and read 1980 BBC....perhaps the BBC promoted this to scare kids into the arms of Jimmy Saville...
No way i always thought i imagined this,we were shown this in the 80s in school
I was born very end of 1980 and this was still being shown in primary schools in Kent well into the mid 80s. It scared the crap out of me as a 6/7 year old. Not just the Thin Man, but the voice.
Yes, those backward voices were terrifying when we were kids.
This still gives me the shivers, I remember watching this through the gaps in my fingers as I hid behind my hands when I was about 5 years old 😲
This show was far too scary to show to 5 year olds. What were they thinking?
I had freakin nightmares about the boy's dad when I was in primary school, oh man the memories
This gave me nightmares for years as a child and that image of the thin man still scares the crap out of me. It’s not even funny as I think I have PTSD as a result. I really suffered sleepless nights continuously and couldn’t even tell anyone about it. How irresponsible of the BBC and everyone involved in making decisions when it comes to education. I mean not even one teacher at my school seemed to find the content inappropriate for the young age group. I can’t even laugh about this because it was truly traumatic. I spent unnecessary time feeling totally terrified and it wasn’t just at night!
I think an entire generation was traumatized by this show.
I thought it was cool.
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John Woodnutt who played the Thin Space Man was a bit of a stalwart of 1970's Doctor Who, appearing in four different stories
I guess he was the BBC's go to for creepy characters.
Excellent video, great review. I actually saw it first time round in 1971 when I was at infants' school. It seems all of us were disturbed by it (worse still, we had to read the accompanying book!), yet it was compelling viewing. In many ways I'm glad that there's only snippets of it on CZcams.
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I was nine when I watched this at school. I absolutely loved it and I have it on DVD now. I was scared of the 'thin man' and he still gives me the creeps today.
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Literally fascinating and incredibly beautiful to watch again well done mate.
Many thanks!
I have just watched the whole series back on Amazon Prime
Lucky you. It's not available on Amazon Prime in the US 😢
You'll never get that time back
Yep! This had everyone traumatised in our school. We were terrified, but couldn't stop watching. The intro theme track, way Peep Peep spoke, the expressions on the faces, the thin man… I think the fact that the episodes were so short, and you had to wait till next week to see the next gripping instalment, played directly into the trauma. Also the fact that you can't really find much info about this online is telling… Just seeing a picture of Peep Peep, brought me right back to being that terrified youngster for a split second. WOY!
I'm still amazed that someone thought it would be a good idea to show this to six year olds.
@@AllThings80s 😆true true…
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T.V. back in the day wasn’t afraid to give kids nightmares. I kind of miss that to be honest. Was the boy called PEEP PEEP or something? I remember he spoke in noises and beeps instead of words.
Yeah, the kid's in the show called him Peep Peep because of the way he spoke.
I’m 43 and I still think about it now. I watched it at about 9 years old. Thin space man was so scary.
I think he scared all of us.
@@AllThings80s do you know the name or remember s educational TV program in which secondary school pupils are locked in a school room by two aliens on the TV in the class room
@@Dinvadbhatmarathi98 I don't, but I'll look into it.
I was forced to watch it in Primary school... like you at about year 3 ... It scared the poop out of me .. how could this be called education .. ? In one way you could say its one of my few memories from Primary school so it did make a lasting impact !! The TV and video on that stand you showed brought back memories .. they used to only have one TV and video for the school to share ...
That's right. I remember there only being one TV and VCR for the entire school as well.
The shadow of the man walking up the stairs of the observatory had us all screaming in tears. Terrifying
I was just thinking the same thing. I remember he stole Tom's car and his mac and hat. He was a ruddy menace, that thin man.
Another solid post to watch! I don’t remember the boy from space, but in New Zealand I remember Worzel Gummidge very well. Loved that show as a kid, but parts of it, i did find a little freaky, with the heads being twisted on and off etc.....
Yeah, they never held back in some of the shows that were made for kids back in the 80s.
My sister is going to kill me for posting this on our family group. I am 48 she is 45 and still gets nightmares thinking about it.
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Been up into my loft and found the DVD collection of Look & Read films that I purchased years ago. There's about 10 discs. Watched Skyhunter yesterday and will be watching Boy From Space tonight. Remember seeing these two at school, but don't recall seeing the others.
That's a nice trip down memory lane.
Yeah i remember watching it at school in the 70s , I've tried to get the whole series,but can only find clips, i absolutely loved it
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I remember seeing this in school too. Now as a typical horror video jaded 80's kid I can't say 'the boy from space really bothered me much. I can remember being scared shitless seeing my first Egyptian mummy on a school trip to the museum though. Nobody told me at the age of 7 that real mummies are just dead people and not monsters from the hammer films lol.
LOL!!!
I never saw this one, but Dark Towers scared me shitless when I saw the ghost knight. I remember the TV you are referring to in the video. I think that was the trend with Primary Schools, a bit TV on a stand. Thanks for compiling.
It was always such a thrill to see the teacher wheeling that TV in as it meant we wouldn't have to do any reading or writing.
The ghost that you are referring to was played by the same actor who played the role of Chewbacca in the star wars franchise.
The cool night there
Who remembers sitting crossed legged on the carpet in primary school, while the teacher wheeled out that telly on legs?. That’s how I remember watching The Boy From Space - scary as hell!
Yes we were shown this in school too around about 1985 (I was 5) and it scared me so much I had to hold my teachers hand! My mum even recorded it at home for me to watch in an effort to reassure me but that still didn’t work. Horrific stuff :(
It seems that an entire generation has been scarred by this show.
This program gave me nightmares for about 6 years almost every night !
Yup, I think it scared every kid that was forced to watch it.
Sat on my numb arse on a hard floor with very thin carpet looking up at the TV and vhs on a trolley (just like you said).
Learning nothing, just getting scared rigid.
I too remember nothing of the storyline as I was just too frightened.
Thank you for this video.
You're welcome. It's amazing how we all have the exact same memories of watching this show.
The show is on Amazon video by the way ,but not sure if it's in b/w or colour or available in the US.
It's not on the US Amazon site unfortunately.
I remember this,never forgot it,wasn’t sure if it was real or not at the time, gave me nightmares and terror when I had flu tremors at night. Really scary and glad I was not the only kid of the turn of the 80’s left scarred by this 😅
I think every kid from our generation was traumatized by this show.
I do recall this drama, though my class never watched it. I used to catch odd episides if I was off ill, or during school hols as they used to keep on running the shows during ther half term breaks. Must admit, was like a rather scary Dr Who adventure.
Yup, it was like an episode of Dr Who.
This is buried so deep but I vividly recall this whole thing thoroughly freaking me out. 'Thanks' for dragging this one out :fear:
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I remember this quite well. The twist was that the aliens talked and wrote backwards iirc, which the Earth kids figure out when the alien kid writes on a window and they can see it from the other side.
Yup, that's correct.
Gawd, I remember this (totally forgotten until Jim Sterling made a video with Look and Read intro graphics at the beginning)... the space guy scared the shit out of me is pretty much all I can remember. In memories, it sits close to the Yukon Trail in Watch, and those dots counting down to a show starting that everyone would count out loud, bloody loud in fact. That and Mallory Manor and Granny's Garden on the spiffy new BBC Micro.
I think every kid that was forced to watch The Boy From Space had the shit scared out of them by the thin space man.
what scared me more was those public information films that you got shown at school where a boy would drown in water or get killed on a railway track, or die from electricution.
I remember watching it at school when I was 8 yrs old. I have it on DVD somewhere in my loft
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We watched this at school as well, I remember several of these Look and Read shows, firstly Dark Towers, then Badger Girl then there was another about a Fairground and then this gem, The Boy from Space. The thin space man was terrifying, I remember sitting there watching this as a kid thinking, I wouldn't be getting out of the car if he was approaching me, the doors would be locked. And then when he chased those kids around that quarry with that scary look on his face. I did think Wordy was a cute little character though.
Oh and that brought back memories when you showed the TV on that trolley with the video and that remote! That's what ours was like at primary school!
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Yes I watched this at primary school and was scared witless by the thin man.
Join the club.....LOL. I think all of us who had to watch this in primary school had the same experience.
It didn’t scare the kids in the UK only but also in its former colonies. I watched it at school in Kenya and was traumatized as well
Incidentally any Robin of Sherwood fans here? The writer for the Boy from Space was the same author as RoS - Richard Carpenter
Awesome! I did not know that, thanks!!! 👍🏻
I remember this! It was really creepy, that thin man in a mac following some kids around :D It was filmed in a quarry, like most British sci-fi of the time... The Boy spoke backwards, and deciphering his speech was the "educational" aspect, if I remember rightly. There was another spooky one called "The Dark Tower" I think. I wasn't particularly terrified, I was already watching horror films on Betamax by then :) However I do remember an horrific safety film they made us watch- about why you shouldn't trespass on the railway- that made several kids actually faint!
The Boy spoke with beeping sounds but he wrote backwards and it could only be read by holding his writing to a mirror. I remember the safety film about not climbing on electric pylons. Some kids were playing frisbee and the frisbee landed on the pylon so the boy climbed up to collect it and touched the live wire and got burned to a crisp. Yeah, that was pretty shocking (pun intended) but it worked as I never claimed up any pylons.
@@AllThings80s Ah right, I remembered it wrong. Yes that pylon one used to be on all the time didn't it? And the one with Donald Pleasance as "the spirit of deep water" trying to drown some kids! Do you remember the one with the old dear polishing her floor then putting a mat down? "You may as well set a man trap" always cracked me up... The railway one was like a full length film, showing the real results of kids getting electrocuted. There was a doom-laden narration, with the phrase "Burned beyond recognition" being repeated over and over. It was grim. They made us stand in assembly and watch it, there were pale faces all round, and a couple of kids just dropped! Good old days, he he...
@@TheBadger74 I remember the part where the kid was trying to get his football from the river and the tree branch he was hanging onto snapped and he fell face first into the water. I don't remember the old dear polishing her floor but I do remember the railway one.
@@AllThings80s Here you go... czcams.com/video/vt016gTNp_k/video.html
oh my god this brings back memories, scared me to death too! even seeing the thin man and 'peep peep' the boy alien now still freaks me out! Dark towers was another one which was scary....gotta love look and read in the 80's 😆
I think all of us from this age group have the same memories of these shows.
Yes, I remember it very well. I remember loving the horror aspect of it until the Thin Man made the car disappear! I realised without knowing it that I had completely bought into the reality that this actually happened in the sense that it was like watching a documentary as an adult. I recall being aghast and petrified all in one moment. Then got home that evening and someone introduced me to the 70's War of the Worlds record. Talkabout double whammy. Traumatised about aliens since that day on!!
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Full series avaialble on Amazon Prime :)
Sadly, not in America where I live.
Omg I was thinking of this last week and tried finding it every where with no joy, then this week I found the same two clips you show in your video. Like your self we was shown at school in 1980, but only 7 of us was chosen, so felt very lucky. This never frightened me at all, just found it so interesting because it was to do with space etc. I remember being really gutted because I missed the 3 and 4th episodes with the look and read program. I have searched every where on here and have only managed to find these two clips. I would love to see the whole series again and would really appreciate it if you could direct me where I could find any links to it, many thanks Dennis Deane AKA D Menace
Sadly, the BBC have blocked this from being shown online.
Still have nightmares about the thin man.I was absolutely terrified when we had to watch this at school. I’m 57 years old now and he is still lodged inside my head somewhere
I've no idea how anyone thought it would be a good idea to show this to young children.
No way man, I remember the boy from space now, you've jogged my memories, been trying to think what the show was called and now I know, nice one at8 you've done me proud and yes it shit me up ( pardon the language) Lol. Thanks mate for that one. 👍. 🇬🇧. And I'm not being sarcastic , I honestly did want to know the title of the show and I do really appreciate the info.cheers bro.By the way do you remember Dramarama?
You're welcome. I'm glad I helped you out. The name Dramarama rings a bell but I can't remember anything about it.
I think I saw this around 1975 and I remember being scared but also I have always remembered it and been fascinated by it, I wish I could find a copy. I also remember one of the other stories “Cloudburst”.
I remember watching it at school and being scared. But apart from that clip of him coming over the small hill and nearly getting the boy I dont remember much else.
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Yes, this and 'Dark Towers' freaked me right out.
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Hi buddy, thankyou so much for making this, I definitely remember this and even today it still get stirs a reaction in me although nothing as strong as it did back then. I own a copy of this on dvd and the great thing is you get an option to watch it as it was originally shown in parts including the studio interaction with wordy and his word games and songs or you can watch the actual drama from start to finish without any of the studio stuff, I choose the latter. It's one of the shows that I've never forgotten about, it had that "hammer horror. " type of dread and forbading along with that 70's type of sync music which reminded me of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who in which it was used to death in practically every episode. And I totally agree the alien guy was the real star and god was he frightening in it!!! I remember having this nightmare as a result of watching this at school, but surprisingly it was ages after watching it, so the affects of this stayed with me long after. In this nightmare I have to stay over at school but after as I'm walking down a corridor to leave I hear someone behind me and as look it's the Alien man, I run down another corridor thinking I've escaped him and as I look down it, he appears standing there watching me. I remember trying to push the entrance door open and it's as if I'm locked in, I just remember running upstairs to another classroom and hiding under the desk... but I awoke soon after and surprisingly I wasn't keen on going back to sleep again that morning. I put my bedside lamp on until it became light. That memory is just as vivid now as it was real back then. This classic tv show did make loads of other stories which were good but never as good as this one.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think it had a lasting effect on all of us that saw it in primary school.
@@AllThings80s Definitely mate, children's tv would never be this good again, on the rare occasions when I've switched channels just out of curiosity to see what the younger generation watch....I wished I'd never bothered, be it tv drama or cartoons, dire would be the polite word. Not everything we watched back in the day was brilliant however compared with current children's tv programmes, it was a damn sight better!! Thanks for your reply buddy, take care mate.
@@ajlomas7185 That's right. Some of the stuff served up to kids these days is downright horrendous . You take care too.
"Traumatised" So true..... haha! This is excellent - thank you.
You're welcome.
For nearly half a century I thought I'd dreamt this show.
This video freaked me out... I still feel ill thinking about it nearly 40 years later...
You're not alone in that 👍🏻
I used to love sitting on the floor all huddled up with the other kids at school watching look and read
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Was it with legs crossed on a bare wooden floor watching a telly in the "TV Room?"
@@stephenroney3630 Yup, pretty much. 👍🏻
Bottle of school milk and pink straw
@@ravkumar6873 YES!!!! 👍🏻
I was traumatised, had nightmares about this show as a kid, so much so that I've looked it up a few times on here
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For a split second I ws saying to Myself, ", why is Pauli from the sopranos doing review video " lol. Great video buddy
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I'm 47 and remember watching it, proper scared me, parents complained !!
I'm not surprised your parents complained. That show was way too scary to show to young children.
Yes. I can’t remember the story but remember the sheer terror every week 😨
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Thank you. Always thought it was just me that was scared and traumatised as a 7 year old
No, not only you. 👍🏻
I've been trying to find it on the internet for years. It scared the crap out of me watching it in the early 80's at school. I must've been 6 or 7. Does anyone have a special link?
Sadly, the BBC have made it all but impossible to find this series online.
I used to dread the tv being wheeled into class, still traumatised by it!
I can totally relate to that.
I totally agree - I believed the thin man lived under my bed & had nightmares for years - horrific thing to show kids in
School!
They were still putting us through this in the early 90s…
This traumatised me as a child along with 'Wordy', 'Fenella The Witch' from Chorlton And The Wheelies, Dickie Davies' hair, safety adverts featuring flying a kite near pylons and the threat of nuclear war after seeing Threads
Can't remember a thing about it except what you mentioned, fucking scary !! must get the DVD :)
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I seen the first run of this in 1973 and never forgot it .we all sat in the class riveted .
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Remember when the teacher would wheel out the tv trolley, put it on & we'd all be watching, shit scared but fascinated!
Omg , just as I wrote that, you said it! Hahahaha
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I think it's a memory all of us from this generation remembers.
I watched The Boy from Space in school as part of our English lessons. Do you remember The Dark Tower from Look and Read about a year or so later?
I vaguely remember The Dark Tower. Was it in a castle that had ghosts appear in it?
All Things 80s I think so. I remember a huge suit of armour that cane to life.
@@DoctorDave5 Yes!!! I remember that too.
I always thought Earth warp Ollie was worse but my dad ( my primary school teacher that had the obsession of showing the film to 9 year olds) showed me a clip from a boy from space... lets just say I now have learned to love Ollie... 😂😂
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This triggered my nightmares of when I had been forced to watch- by My older sisters , David Bowie in, "The Man who Fell to Earth .The part wear he removes his eyes etc
.I was 6. Way too adult and terrified me. All so my sisters could witness my terror and laugh at me.
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This was made before the David Bowie film. I wonder if it was the influence for it?
John Woodnut had a penchant for playing sinister characters.
He certainly did.
@@AllThings80s He played the Home Secretary in Who Dares Wins
Also remember it... We used to have a 20 minute break in class and was allowed to watch something educational... This scared the hell out of me....i watched this in the year 1989 when I was 8-9 also I share the sane experience I couldn't remember this years later
I think every kid that was forced to watch this felt the same way.
Thankyou for bringing this back up! I'm bet wetting again lol
@@AllThings80s seriously though, thanks to the internet and CZcams I had finally figured this out, at school it was a weekly event to go in to the TV room and watch bbc educational programs ad tho one in particular got all of us talking about it in the playground so it does bring back memories of being a kid and thoughts of back in the day.
@@peterah7957 LOL
In the same year of 1980 I watched a similar children's TV programme where a bunch of kids had a bird of prey, possibly a peregrine falcon, anyone know what this programme was called (not Kes)?.
That like The Boy from Space is another Look and Read story. It is called Sky Hunter.About three kids Butch,Jackie and Trevor who stumble upon a scheme involving a Peregrine Falcon and stolen birds eggs.
Sky Hunter.
@@derrenlodge6502 I've found Skyhunter and downloaded it to watch. thanks.
In Joe and the sheep rustlers one of the characters actually got shot in the story. I remember the boy from space being shown in black and white and in colour as I am old enough to remember.
Thank you Love, I agree. I was 7 & it was scary! 💜
You're welcome. Yup, it certainly was scary.
I watched it at school in 1973 when I was 7. The thin man was scary.
So I guess it was the black and white version you saw? I imagine it would be scarier in black and white.
@@AllThings80s It was black and white although I have seen bits of it since in colour. My main memory is the thin man making 2 cars disappear with his space gun after he had captured Mr Bunting and Peep Peep.
@@alanmolyneux5957 Yup, I remember that too.
The Boy from Space debuted on BBC Look & Read on 21st of September !971. it was then on repeatedly on and off up to 1980.
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I distinctly remember seeing TBFS ten years before you did. Probably around 1970 or 1971. I remember being somewhat scared of it. Nonetheless I was fascinated by it. It had a profound effect on me in ways that are difficult to describe without sounding like a loon, but I will say this, I felt as a kid that this show was pointing me in the right direction. 🤔
Apparently the show format in 1970 was very different from its goofier 80s version. A scarier version. I just remember being both scared and hypnotized by it.
It is certainly a very very bizarre chapter in children’s education.
It was a very odd thing to show young children, that's for sure.
OMG....I was 6 years old when I watched this.....I remember watching it in class and completely freezing in my chair 😨 telling my parents later about this show, they just didn't believe me telling them it was that traumatizing. Horrific BBC production
It seems those of us of a similar age have the exact same memories of this show.
I concur, I remember shaking with fear !
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That movie was the equivalent to watching The Exorcist, for me. It was terrifying, and it just made me nervous overall
It seems that everyone who had to watch this had the same reaction.
Ah! The early 80's video trauma trolley that also brought me the creepy Music Scene schools program "Mr Humphreys & his inheritance" Watership Down & the freaky Cosmic Zoom.
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It was released as a DVD and book set. I loved the boy from space and the literacy themed animated songs. We also watched Skyhunter with Cat Mary as the antagonist.
I only have a vague memory of Sky Hunter. It just didn't have the same impact as The Boy From Space.
Skyhunter, was that about a group of kids with a bird of prey?
@@843thebear Yes it was.
czcams.com/video/TyqzkoqzCZk/video.html
Here it is.
I liked it when they talked about the Welsh language in later episodes.
@@harper277 Thanks, I've downloaded the full series. I loved Skyhunter as an 8 year old, and was frightened as hell by Boy From Space. If I remember correctly the scary guy ended up being the good guy? I'll give it another watch.
Was anyone elses class split up to watch either this or dark towers ? I got the feeling of being separated from my classmates and being alone when i had to watch this
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I don’t know if kids just grew up more faster then or because television shows were sometimes filmed months or a year previously which could explain for that.
There should support groups available for people who saw this.
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Hi,Enjoyed your video.I remember the show from my childhood.Wasnt there a character in the show called Dr Bunting? Stuck in my head as obviously I have same surname.I thought it was Arthur Lowe but was just someone who looked like him.
There was indeed a Mr Bunting who was played by Anthony Woodruff
If it was as creepy as the Czech version "she came from space" it sure was a horror for kids. It must have been almost the same time. The first two episodes kind of shocked me. Psychedelic music when the girl showed up. She looked like a little flying monk with a scary almost plastic looking face. The other episodes showed the girl slowly transforming to a normal girl. But it still get goosebumps when I think about her first appearance 😨
It's crazy to think about the scary things they showed us in school.
I don’t recall seeing this one, but the music that scared the crap out of me was from the show ‘Moondial’ from the 80’s. The theme for this is all over CZcams. Please check it out if you haven’t already, you’ll see what I mean. 👍👍👍
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We were sat down and made to watch this as 4 year olds in nursery it scared me for years
It's amazing how they thought that would be a good idea.,
@All Things 80s watching it back now it all comes flooding back lol. Even the boy himself was scary to me back then. Those noises he made were awful. I remember clearly the tv being rolled in and the room being completely dark for us to sit cross legged and watch it lol.
@@shaneowen1047 Ah yes, the sight of the cart with the TV and VCR was normally a wonderful thing......except when we knew we were about to watch The Boy From Space.
I noticed some great things on your wall, I noticed the Megadeth photograph & the Anthrax autographed ''Not Man'' drum skin
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Used to love watching Look And Read at school. Especially loved Wordy but the thin spaceman used to scare the heck out of all of us!!
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Watched this at school when I was about 8 or 9
i watched it at school .... would love to see it again
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We used to watch this in school i was about 6 it scared the sugar out of me. Obviously peer pressure meant I never told anyone how much it scared me. It was only recently that I read just how many children were traumatised by this show. The thing I remember about the story was the mad scary voices was due to finding a inside out bag and as they saw the words back to front they then spoke backwards
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Watched it but I certainly wasn't traumatised I just saw it as a piece of entertainment
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Well finally I can be reassured I wasnt the only poor child who was tortured with this program as a child. Spot on with the tv and video player at school 😉. Its exactly how I remember it. I couldn't remember the name of the program, but quarrys have always given me the creeps. That scene scared the sh*t out of me, thanks BBC you wierdo's. You certainly scarred me for life 😡 . Thanks for the upload 👍
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and were reassured that you weren't the only one to be tortured by this program.
I was born in 1972 and took a trip with my girlfriend to a local nature reserve, which happened to be an old quarry and I went into a panic and I could not understand why, my legs were frozen and I was humiliated in front on my GF
Then about a year later my blonde 4 year old nephew wore a jumper with a rocket and the same fear came across me, so I googled "Space boy quarry" and 3 seconds later I had fallen of my chair, haha!
I had mentally blanked it out for 40 years...
It seems that our entire generation was traumatized by this show. I've no idea what the BBC or the education system thought they were doing by exposing young children to this.
As an African kid brought to UK in 1979 and having to sit with other children at school watching this terrified me. The only reason I actually looked it up was because I was wondering why I was to disturbed by the boy from space.....
One thing I guess I learned from this traumatic programme is to say... ' Shit! I'm off ' if I see an alien.
I think this show made all the kids from our generation scared of aliens. LOL
John woodnut as the thin spaceman; very little carear I could see but he died in a home for former actors in Northwood.
Yep, the thin man scared the hell out of me during the 80s. The thin man actor has a lot to answer for.
Yup, he terrorized an entire generation.
My dads friend recorded this to vhs for us (my brother and i). I've been looking for the full look and read series. Wordy lol.
Oh yeah, they made us watch it in a dark room at school when they wheeled the tv out, just for added terror. Did I imagine it or did the thin man turn out to be the boys relative? After that they made us watch Dark Towers, another nightmare guaranteed.
I think he may have been the boy’s father, but yes, I too had to watch it in a dark room.