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Children of the Stones
1977 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Jeremy Burnham, Trevor Ray
Science FictionFantasyKidsMystery
In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.
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Yup. Kind of amazing what you can do with decent stories. Blake's 7 and 70s Doctor Who were notorious for cheezy effects, sets, props and costumes. But the stories really were pretty decent. Blake's 7 eventually annoyed me by how slow it progressed, but if you relax and accept that it's slower than your typical trek episode, it's perfectly fine.
The same era saw Survivors, The Tripods and Children of the Stones. Cheezy effects but very decent stories and still worth watching.
The TV series of Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes are reasonably obscure because they weren't too popular (I've got hold of both them, by the way).
Some other titles to pique your interest:
1981 BBC version of The Day of the Triffids
1979 Tales of the Unexpected (not scifi really)
1979 Sapphire & Steel (with the most annoying introduction - they are not elements!)
1979 Quatermass series
1979 The Omega Factor
1978 Blake's 7 (should not really count as obscure due to the impact the series had)
1977 The Fantastic Journey
1977 Children of the Stones
1977 Beasts (anthology series by Nigel Kneale)
1975 Sky
1975 The Invisible Man (really cheesy, featuring David McCallum)
1975 The Changes
1974 Zodiac
1973 The Tomorrow People
1970 Timeslip
1969 The Owl Service
1968 The Champions
1966 The Time Tunnel
1966 Mission: Impossible
1965 Out of the Unknown
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade
1958 Quatermass and the Pit mini-series
1955 Quatermass II
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For some of the programmes/podcasts below, I've picked an episode I particularly enjoyed. The sheer volume of radio content the BBC produces means there are many excellent podcasts/programmes that go undiscovered (the BBC's own search engine is terrible).
I subscribe to dozens of other programmes not listed below, but to keep this list short, here is a selection that may (or may not!) appeal:
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-- WORLD HISTORY, CULTURE AND IDEAS
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-- DRAMA
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Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, this mystery-horror drama features witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. I found it pretty gripping. All episodes available.
Children of the Stones: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08sy3qx/episodes/downloads
Another enjoyable horror-mystery. All episodes available.