Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

geezer-mw I clearly remember this programme, as though it were yesterday; I was thirteen at the time of first broadcast. Despite the fact that the programme was the usual dystopic(god, why does this website not understand the word dystopic - IT IS A VALID WORD!!!) Sci- Fi of the time, and seemed to be highly derivative of a film from the previous year, called No Blade of Grass, right down to the presence of Asian characters (generalised Asian characters in No Blade of Grass, Seikhs in The Changes) and a catastrophe situation (dying plants in No Blade of Grass, hatred of technology in The Changes), I liked the programme, largely because at thirteen, I fancied about half the women on TV (don't we all at that age?) and Vicky Williams was one of them, along with Gillian Blake (Follyfoot), Hilary Dwyer (Hadleigh), and Helga Anders ( The White Horses) which brings me to the main point of writing this. Does any body, apart from me, remember that The Changes was first show in 1973, when I was thirteen and all these other programmes were on the TV? The programme ran, at the very least, in th BBC Midland region; I remember discussing the programme with school friends, and since I changed schools at the end of 1973, and therefore subsequently had new friends, I CLEARLY remember the event of the time, and know that I am right in this. Final Point. If I find it this difficult to put a review on IMDb again, I will deal with the production company direct - IMDb are NOT the definitive authority; this is obvious from my review.

simonferdinand I remember watching this series when I was 6 years old, and I found it absolutely terrifying. After the first episode, as soon as the title page appeared I begged my mum to change channel because I really thought the TV was going to explode, or everyone outside in the street was really going to freak out and smash up everything while it was showing. At that age I just couldn't take this sort of programme. I had nightmares about "the noise" and school lock-outs, power blackouts and people rioting in the streets for years after. Actually it was almost an omen for late 70's Britain in many ways.I couldn't remember the name of the series, until one day just idly surfing the net I happened to search for: "disturbing BBC1 children's series 1970s" to see if a well-known search engine could help me find it, and here it was.I don't know what made BBC programmers think this apocalyptic stuff was suitable viewing for kids: young teens maybe, after Top Of The Pops or something similar, but I was still at the Paddington Bear level.But I must admit I'd quite like to see it again now that I'm 38!

Glenn Walsh I remember this from my childhood and like the first reviewer I was totally captivated. It dealt with some terrific ideas, but I always remember the opening credits where the girl's father smashed the TV with one of those ashtrays-on-a-stand. To me, a 10-year-old telly addict, that was horrifying! I read the book it was based on, 'The Weathermonger' and it was much better, with a developed story and a more plausible ending. WEE SPOILER... In the book, the supernatural force was revealed to be Merlin the wizard, no less. A re-make of this with a bigger budget (maybe even a feature) could be very successful today as we are even more techno-dependent than we were in 1975. Any producers reading this...

andyfennessy CONTAINS SPOILERS (not that you'll ever get to see it!)This was a children's TV series consisting of ten twenty-five minute episodes first broadcast in 1975 on BBC1, and repeated a year later. I have very vivid memories of it, because it scared me half-stupid (and considering I have grown up believing, for instance, The Exorcist to be a comedy, that's saying something!)Young Nicky Gore wakes up one morning to discover that everybody - her parents included - has gone mad. They are out on the streets smashing up cars, destroying televisions - any mechanical / electrical device you could care to mention, in fact. Deserted by her parents (who decide to flee to France) she is befriended by a group of Sikhs who, like her, appear to be immune from the cause of the madness - the "Noise", disturbing waves of sound which emanate from electricity pylons (or so I remember).Various adventures in rural England ensue before Nicky - accompanied by various companions along the way (and at one point tried as a witch) - finds the source of the noise in a recently excavated cave system... This is the last episode and things get SERIOUSLY weird! She finds a large glowing red monolith which is crying out in a strange faraway voice "Muni targit! Muni targit!" (Latin for "I stop the World" I believe).Apparently, it is a very confused supernatural force which has been reawakened by the excavation work, and sensed (I'm guessing here - it is twenty-seven years since I saw it and I was eight at the time!) that the natural order of the planet has been perverted (and indeed, polluted) by the inventions of man since the Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, and is attempting to revert the world to a time when people were more at one with their environment.The denouement is something of a cop-out. Nicky prostrates herself before the ancient force, pleading with it to reverse the harm it has caused. And, um, it does so.The world is free again to poison the land and seas, for superpowers to threaten each other with nuclear weapons, for s/he-who-dies-with-the-most-toys-wins mentalities... Civilisation, it may be concluded, is amoral, but once innocence is lost, it can never be regained. Will wisdom grow in parallel with progress, or are we merely rushing headlong into self-destruction? Thoughts to chew on, certainly.Note: Much of the location work was shot in Bristol and the West Country.