Originally published at: Wiki for a cult '70s TV show that does not exist | Boing Boing
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Well, obviously it exists, now. Just not as a TV show. 
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I dunno - the actual '70s BBC kids shows were sometimes so weird that this feels somewhat superfluous.
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Based on the unpublished work by L. Ron Hubbard? /s
After that experience, Hubbard wrote the manuscript he called “Excalibur.” And Ackerman repeats Hubbard’s fantastic tale about the work, that anyone who read it went insane or committed suicide. Ackerman seems to give it some credence. He describes the elaborate rules Hubbard supposedly set down before a publisher could look at it. But Ackerman admits that he never knew anyone who actually read it, and he never saw it himself.
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“We can remember it for you, wholesale.”
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All it needs now is a “revival” on Syfy.
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This reminds me of the first time I saw A Mighty Boosh and it slotted perfectly into the socket in my brain that have been created by decades of weird British TV.
It felt like something that had always been there, but I had forgotten about.
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Children of the Stones, ferinstance.
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See also Blake’s 7 and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Also, Saphire and Steel - even though not made by the BBC, it was cut from the same cloth…
And The Quatermass Conclusion,
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Thank you! I’d never heard of two of those.
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Yeah, that one is clearly a big influence on this, I’d say. There were also things like “The Clifton House Mystery,” “The Boy from Space,” “Terrahawks,” “Catweazel,” “The Owl Service,” and the early '80s “Children of Green Knowe,” “Chocky,” and “The Witches and The Grinnygog”… and frankly, probably some “Worzel Gummidge” in there, too. I mean, nightmare fuel:
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I’d only heard of Catweazel and Worzel! Thanks!
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Candle Cove isn’t nearly as weird as actual '70s British television.
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