Aliens in the Family 1987 Series 1 Episode 5

IF YOU ENJOYED THIS VIDEO PLEASE DONATE AT: https://ko-fi.com/archivemediavault EPISODE PLOT:Whilst looking for Bond, Dora asks Jake what he and she were talking about. Dora is becoming a little jealous of the two. Lewis runs off when he hears some strange noises leaving the two girls talking. Lewis has found some footprints. Whilst they follow them the two girls talk about the divorce and marriages. By talking about their feelings and what they thought about the family, marriage and divorce, Jake and Dora realise that they are very alike.They see Bond high up near a waterfall. The children climb up after him but he tells them to go back as he is still being pursued. Dora states that he is being very paracetomol, corrected by Jake to paranoid. Bond tells them that the electric shock (they all saw) was "them", they can make time jump. Suddenly the children see three large back cloaked hooded figures appear at the top of the waterfall. They shout to warn Bond. He looks to switch on his radio. The auditory defense mode disperses the black entities but it also knocks out Lewis who loses his grip on the slopes. Lewis falls down unconscious. . ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION: 16TH DECEMBER 1987 WRITTEN BY: Allan Baker (ADAPTED BY) Margaret Mahy (ORIGINAL NOVEL) DIRECTED BY: Christine Secombe CAST: Sophie Bold AS Jake Grant Thatcher AS Bond Clare Wilkie AS Dora Sebastian Knapp AS Lewis Clare Clifford AS Philippa Rob Edwards AS David Granville Saxton AS Wirdegen Leader Elizabeth Watkins AS Solita James Woodward AS Wirdegen Tony Birch AS Wirdegen Jon Glover AS Voice from Galgonqua SERIES PLOT: It is the summer holidays and teenager Jacqueline ("Jake") is visiting her newly remarried father and his family (including teenager Dora and her young brother Lewis) for the first time. Emotions and tensions run high as everyone tries to establish where they fit in this new dynamic. Meanwhile, on a distant planet, Bond is about to embark on a perilous mission to Earth to seek information and to find his sister, Solita. But he is alone and in danger. When their paths cross, Bond and the children must learn a lesson in friendship and family ties and reconsider the notion of what it is to be an outsider. Behind the Story Aliens in the Family started off life as a series of words formed into sentences and various narrative devices in what we all know as a novel by the late Margaret Mahy. The BBC decided to dramatise it in 1987, so Allan Baker broke out his typewriter and Christine Secombe brought her children's tv experience to the fore as director. Episodes first aired on Wednesdays at 5.10pm on BBC1 under the CBBC umbrella in late 1987. Episodes were around 25 minutes long and were repeated on the following Sunday. The series was repeated on BBC1 in 1989, but that was the last time Aliens in the Family had its tellywaves transmitted into our retinas. The series was directed by Christine Secombe who also did "Tom's Midnight Garden" and one of my other favourites "A Likely Lad." Paul Stone (Producer of a huge list of children's classics including Tom's Midnight Garden, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988), The Watch House, The Children of Green Knowe, Moondial to name a few) was the executive Producer. In 1988 they were both nominated for a BAFTA for this production. The music was composed by Roger Limb. CREW: Producer: Paul Stone (executive producer) Composer: Roger Limb Production Designer: Paul Montague Costume Designer: Inez Nordell Makeup Department: Ann Humphreys (makeup designer) Production Management: Tony Guyan (production manager) Gillian Harris (production manager) Art Department: Mike Fallon (production buyer) Linda Sherwood-Page (graphics designer) Sound Department: Alan Taylor (sound) Visual Effects: Tony Harding (visual effects designer) Robin Lobb (video effects designer) Camera and Electrical Department: Paul Harding (camera) Derek Taylor (vision control supervisor) John Wiggins (lighting) Editorial Department: Stan Pow (videotape editor) Music Department: Todd Rundgren (composer: theme music) David W J Thomas (Oboe (uncredited)) Production Department: Marian Fowles (production assistant) Additional Crew: Stephen Garwood (assistant floor manager) Gilly Hayward (assistant floor manager)