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Amen to that. Big fan of this when i was ten./eleven.
It was unusual in that it was sci fi....for kids. Teleporting and mindreading and silver lame clothing and such like.
Futuristic electronic theme, great at the time, average now.
But in them uk days virtually EVERY tv theme was decent - or at the very least, had effort put in it by the composer or was a pre existing piece well-chosen by the music editor/director and it showed in the final product.
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Aug 23, 2016 - 4:39 PM
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dogplant
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This was a regular watch for me, too, growing up in the U.K. and I read the comic version in Look-In magazine:
 
Years later, I graduated to more grown-up sci-fi and was surprised to find the teleportation effect that the Tomorrow People used -- where they'd grab their teleportation belt buckles and yell 'Jaunt!' before they disappeared -- was taken from an Alfred Bester novel, "The Stars My Destination" (known in the U.K. as "Tiger, Tiger"). Bester's book was set in a future society where teleportation was a common occurrence. Commuters would gather on giant teleportation docks that could beam them great distances to another dock, based on an invention by a scientist Charles Fort Jaunte. The story was nothing like "The Tomorrow People," it was about a crazy character who is miraculously able to spontaneously 'jaunte' without mechanical assistance; but I was quite surprised to discover that's where the U.K. TV show got the name.
Supposedly, several filmmakers have tried to adapt "The Stars My Destination" as a movie (including, I think, Dan O'Bannon and John Carpenter) but nobody could crack it.
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I remember Children of the stones. They were trapped in a "village" and when they went to escape a stone appeared in their path to block their exit.
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I dont remember - i was 11.
I do recall it starred that scottish bald actor. Name like iain or cuthbertson, something like that
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