help?? Two shows...mystery space boy & disfigured puppet...

[Juzman]

Hi everyone,
I have been racking my brain trying to find out about 2 shows I saw as a child...early 80's

1. I saw this show at school...it was about a strange mystery 'boy' that appeared on earth...he was blonde, looked a little freaky and wore a blue kinda lycra spacy outfit...and I think he had to try and find his way home or something. I think the 'space boy' was actually a puppet of some description, but looked very human (but my young mind could have played tricks on me). I have a vague recollection of it being called something like

The blue boy
boy from the blue planet...or something like that?

I remember him appearing on a stone pebble beach...but not much else I can remember


2. There was this show about schoolkids kinda like Grange Hill I think, but there was this one short ugly/disfigured school kid (the only puppet in the show...rest were actors) that used to wear a little maroon cap and I think tried to get the kids to do mischief...it was a strange show, and the little ugly puppet kid used to freak me out...this kid always appeared in the dark...

any help in identifying these show's I'll be eternally grateful!

Cheers
Justin

[SpiralCoolStuff]

Hmmmm the first one sounds vaugely familiar....2nd one doesnt ring any bells i'm afraid.

[spearsey]

I beleive you are referring to a children's programme that was called "Sky". It was on ITV I think. I remember that Sky was boy from another world and for some reason every now and then his eyes went completely bright blue. Your post made me do a google search and came up with the website below and synopsis:

"A young time-traveller from another dimension, Sky, is thrown into our universe by a black hole. He's befriended by two young children but finds that his presence on Earth causes nature - personified by the mysterious Goodchild - to fight back, like anti-bodies battling a virus. Sky and the children must try to locate the Juganet, the gateway back to his own dimension, before nature destroys him."

http://www.eofftv.com/s/sky/sky_main.htm

Hope that helps

Spearsey

[Juzman]

thanks a lot for that, I think that might be the show!! I've been thinking about that show for about 21 years *lol* so cheers!!

check out

http://www.juganet.com/welcome.htm

it has some great screenshots!

[stickswiper]

Hi there,

I think you may be refering to a Look and Read mini series called 'The Boy From Space' It was great and i remember it well. I think the boy was called 'Peep Peep'.

See if this link works, if it doesn't then let me know.

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/stories/boy2/index.shtml

Stickswiper.

[Shellybobs33]

Yes it was Look and Read as my hubby remembers it

[Shellybobs33]

The only music video I can thnk of with a photo booth is Elvis costello I want to be loved
BUT you could try this website
http://www.doubleperf.com/photobooth/cinema/commercials_videos.html

If they do not have the answer send them a quick email they might know
Good luck

[Juzman]

YES!!! That's definitely it, finally! thankyou Stickswiper, you're a legend!!

[Desulph]

Ahh Look and read... absolute classic. It used to on every Tuesday and Friday and we never missed an episode at school. I remember them doing a series about a perigrin falcon called skyhunter. The end of each episode was a cliffhanger. BRILLIANT!!!!

[M.I.K.]

I think the second programme is either Palace Hill, (a spin-off from another show called Your Mother Wouldn't Like It), or it could be Behind The Bikesheds. I only vaguely remember both of them but that puppet thing sounds very familiar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/p/palacehill_1299002458.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/behindthebikeshe_1299000250.shtml

[fifitrix29]

Hi there,

I think you may be refering to a Look and Read mini series called 'The Boy From Space' It was great and i remember it well. I think the boy was called 'Peep Peep'.

See if this link works, if it doesn't then let me know.

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/stories/boy2/index.shtml

Stickswiper.

Know this is an old thread but one of the reasons i came to this site was to try and find out the name of that programme. Always remembered the thin man aswell but for some reason thought it was the tall man. Used to love watching it. Ah good old memories.

Fi :)

[Juzman]

Some You Tube "The Boy From Space" links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iKJD_mxeg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4F7y__Viws&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8NwPwh1ZE&feature=related (butchered though)



Behind the Bike Shed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSsPpkTrzVs (part 1 of 10)