Im 49, I vaguely remember this as a child but dont think I watched it, was always out on my bike. Happy memories. Glad ive found this on here, im fascinated with old British TV shows like this, the Tomorrow People, Sapphire and Steel etc. Sat here with vintage cider to watch it. Very creepy for a kids TV programme though, and the music is genuinely disturbing. This country was wonderful back then, and although not without its troubles, people were more friendly, less crime, a more innocent time altogether. The houses there were affordable back then, not like today where only the wealthy can afford to live in such a nice place.
An intelligent, engrossing, well written and well acted series which didn’t assume it’s young audience were stupid and treated them with respect. Today just the opening credits would be enough to attract numerous complaints and get it taken off air. Thanks for uploading.
Most children in the age demographic this catered to just watch adult tv now. I know I did- by the time I was 12 the only stuff I really enjoyed watching on British children's tv was the Sarah Jane Adventures (certainly an example of a modern children's show that does not insult it's audience). American's have it slightly better, they get some rather deep cartoons, and Stranger Things, which has much in common with this in terms of plot and creep factor, albeit with a rather more 1980s E.T./John Carpenter flavour rather than John Wyndham and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
I was 8 years old when I saw this. It was my show. I loved it. I am 53 now and will watch it with again like an 8 year old I make no apologies for that!.Thank you for posting them.
Scariest-and best-childrens programme ever! I Used to rush home from school to watch this in 1977. I Credit the program for sparking my interest in stone circles. In 2008, 31 years after I first saw it I visited the place it was filmed 'Avebury Stones' with my daughter. We also went to Stonehenge. Probably one of the best days of my life as I had waited so long to go there, it was like my 'Holy Grail'...
Years ago, my car broke down on the motorway opposite Stonehenge. It was a full moon and the car just suddenly lost all power -- even the lights went off. I coasted to a halt on the hard-shoulder and got out to have a look. Couldn't see anything loose under the bonnet, so I went to try to start it again -- that's when I looked over and saw that I was opposite Stonehenge. The car started instantly after that and I drove on, never to find out what the problem was, as it didn't happen again. :0)
Hi do you remember a kids show from around the same time about a Saxon soldier or ghost? It involved an oval type shield and a tomb...? I can’t remember what it was called. Cheers!
that music! yes. The Ambrosia Singers had just finished working with Vangelis on the HEAVEN AND HELL project...... this music reminds me of the Ligetti Requiem featured along with the clever Apes in 2001 Space
Though I usually can't stand people going on about how great tv was in the old days, or (more likley) how terrible it all is now (they need to watch more) I have to admit this is probably one of the best British children's tv shows ever made, at least in the field of sci-fi, and has yet to be topped. I also note that it has no problem showing a main character to be intelligent and academically able, or rather academically capable and yet not shoehorned into a narrow stereotype of a "nerd" or "swot" in a desperate attempt to replicate an American school by people who have never been to one.
Agreed, it's up there, especially for something of its age. The UK also had the Tomorrow People, which might not have been quite up to this but was still far better about assuming children had functioning brains than the vast majority of kids' shows in any era. Modern programing has some gems too, but they tend to be animated rather than live action fare. The last bearable live-action kid show I can recall seeing was 2020's Astronauts over on Nick, which was worth a look for a change.
I love this series. I was in Avebury a couple of times last year. The first time I stayed at a B&B down the road, about 5 minutes from the stones. I asked one of the owners if she had seen this series. She said she had started to watch it, but the creepy music freaked her out--and she could not continue watching it knowing the stones were practically in her back yard!
I LOVED this series. I think it whetted my appetite to probe the knowledge of ancients, and certainly to puzzle over the real significance and nature of standing stones sites aroud the world.
I went to see Avebury in the early 1980s. It was pretty much like you see in this series--very few tourists. It was a dull, drizzly day and the place left a mystical impression on me. I've never been back because I don't want to spoil that memory.
I was 6 when this came up. At the time I was living in Swindon 30 mins away from Avebury. I was scared from this just the music was creepy! Living in Scotland and when I go see my family always go to see my Stones, as a Pagan, I feel a power in them.
Mind expanding for a 9 year old. Both the show as a whole and that incredible opening sequence and theme. I can’t say for sure but I doubt that kids of that age now get there minds scared and opened as my generation did with some of the wonderfully thought provoking TV shows we had on offer....
This is a great mini series. I saw it once as a kid in the late 70s and never saw it again until right now, Jan 2020. Thanks for posting this. The quality is far superior to any of the shows they are putting out today.
@@StarWarsJay I guess you didn't experience HTV's original ident animation, which was a hypnotic mass of rotating black and white lines that spelled out "HARLECH". ua-cam.com/video/-agHZuB59N0/v-deo.html Which worked well on 405-line TV, But apparently it didn't go very weil with the later 625-line standard, So they changed to the animated aerial looking one, but with the same weird "jingle".
Definitely a story I watch on UA-cam when I’m working not so hard on other projects on my PC - it makes a great ‘audiobook.’ My partner also loves watching this with me. It’s nice to see something from so long ago she says. Sadly growing up in the 1990s she missed out on a lot of these things. She did however see lots of things like Gerry Anderson shows growing up in Eastern Europe on old channels, they’d get stuff like that really cheap I’d imagine. She’s a big fan of this, and Doctor Who and Blake’s 7.
I remember this in the 1970s , I liked it then and I m watching it again ! Thing is there is nt a great difference between this children programme and some adult horror material , E G Quatermass and the Pitt film 1967.
I’m hoping to go and explore Avebury sometime to see what it’s like and to find some of the locations and I could go during the summer holidays maybe or sometime sooner.
.....first time watching this.....so many questions.....very strange, but very interesting also. I haven't seen a show like this on childrens TV recently!
With a moniker like Children of the Stones you might expect a documentry with interviews of the offspring of groupies who spent a lot of time with Jagger, Richards & Co.
This show's opening had been in the back of my mind for many, many years. I only kept a vague memory of it...But i remembered clearly how it terrified me!!!
Could the "Time Rift" been affected at 10:20? Matt sees a truck coming and it looks like Bob will be run down. But after Matt winces at the sight of a truck hitting Bob the camera pans back on Bob on his bike and not hurt at all, and the Truck disappears . I think that Millbury in "real time" at this point ended for Matt and his father as they were now entering into Hendrick's circle.
Just thought. That new boy that's moved into the village. Looks like Blake7 and just thought. The young lad who shared a cell Ronnie Barker in Porraige.
I read the book, when I was 10 or 11. And I read it more than once over the decades, but the last time was like 8 or more years ago. Guess I'll read it again someday. I didn't know there was TV series, cause I'm from Germany and we only had the first book, but not even the 2nd "Return to the stones". There's also a movie from 1998, which has a bit of a similiar story "Perfect Little Angels".
Wonder how much influence this show had on the Doctor Who story Stones of Blood a few years down the road. Very different in the details of course, but seeing this might have provided some inspiration at least.
I am 37 years old, i am ex-special forces soldier, seen MANY SHIT in my life, and opening scene with screaming stones scares ME like hell. Is it really FOR KIDS?
The joke about selling his broken bike to the Tate Gallery would be a dig about Equivalent VIII - or "The Bricks in the Tate" by Carl Andre, which the gallery acquired in the 1970s - after that people thought the Tate would buy any old crap and call it Art. My school art teacher on the other hand, thought Equivalent VIII was a modern masterpiece!
I know it has been about 50 years, but I distinctly remember a scene where the father and son drive out of the village only to find the road leads them straight back in. Am I going mad, or have I misremembered a different series, and mixed it with this?
I also saw this on "The Third Eye", along with; " Into The Labyrinth", "The Haunting of Cassie Palmer" and "Under the Mountain". This story is the creepiest of the 4. But I enjoy coming back to it from time to time.
ok, anyone else remember a tv series where a kid would draw things and they would happen in a sort of nightmare world. was filmed in uk in the midlands.. there was a girl in a house and he scribbled over the windows in his drawings and then it happened on her house ?
I WISH I'd seen this back when it came out; I would've been 16 or 17 at the time; but watching it now I still think it's just brilliant T.V. and NOT too adult for kids with a bit of grey matter and imagination as some think.
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Loved those little village shops - jars of sweets, ice lollies in a freezer, a rotating rack with paperback books...
This scared the shit out of me in 1977.
😂😂😂
Im 49, I vaguely remember this as a child but dont think I watched it, was always out on my bike. Happy memories. Glad ive found this on here, im fascinated with old British TV shows like this, the Tomorrow People, Sapphire and Steel etc. Sat here with vintage cider to watch it. Very creepy for a kids TV programme though, and the music is genuinely disturbing. This country was wonderful back then, and although not without its troubles, people were more friendly, less crime, a more innocent time altogether. The houses there were affordable back then, not like today where only the wealthy can afford to live in such a nice place.
An intelligent, engrossing, well written and well acted
series which didn’t assume it’s young
audience were stupid and treated them with respect. Today just the opening credits would be
enough to attract numerous complaints and get it taken off air. Thanks for uploading.
Most children in the age demographic this catered to just watch adult tv now. I know I did- by the time I was 12 the only stuff I really enjoyed watching on British children's tv was the Sarah Jane Adventures (certainly an example of a modern children's show that does not insult it's audience). American's have it slightly better, they get some rather deep cartoons, and Stranger Things, which has much in common with this in terms of plot and creep factor, albeit with a rather more 1980s E.T./John Carpenter flavour rather than John Wyndham and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
I loved it - I am now a Druid I think it had a significant influence - ha ha
I was 8 years old when I saw this. It was my show. I loved it. I am 53 now and will watch it with again like an 8 year old I make no apologies for that!.Thank you for posting them.
I'm 53 now as well, and watching it now still gives me the Heebie-jeebies.
11 here!
Scariest-and best-childrens programme ever! I Used to rush home from school to watch this in 1977. I Credit the program for sparking my interest in stone circles. In 2008, 31 years after I first saw it I visited the place it was filmed 'Avebury Stones' with my daughter. We also went to Stonehenge. Probably one of the best days of my life as I had waited so long to go there, it was like my 'Holy Grail'...
Years ago, my car broke down on the motorway opposite Stonehenge. It was a full moon and the car just suddenly lost all power -- even the lights went off.
I coasted to a halt on the hard-shoulder and got out to have a look. Couldn't see anything loose under the bonnet, so I went to try to start it again -- that's when I looked over and saw that I was opposite Stonehenge.
The car started instantly after that and I drove on, never to find out what the problem was, as it didn't happen again.
:0)
Hi do you remember a kids show from around the same time about a Saxon soldier or ghost? It involved an oval type shield and a tomb...? I can’t remember what it was called. Cheers!
@@kingfillins4117 Possibly Raven with Phil Daniels, involving caves, Saxon carvings, King Arthur & Merlin etc?
What a lovely story.
Remember this programme very well, it encouraged ordinary kids to think outside the box and the stories made us use our imagination.
Brilliant series - loved it in 1977 - think it's stood the test of time very well.
As a kid the intro music used to absolutely TERRIFY me!
Still terrifies me now - even the HTV West bit terrifies me.
@Marcus Knightingale the series was "Marianne Dreams".
that music! yes. The Ambrosia Singers had just finished working with Vangelis on the HEAVEN AND HELL project...... this music reminds me of the Ligetti Requiem featured along with the clever Apes in 2001 Space
..... that bloody painting is enough to give a kid nightmares as well...
22:35 The trumpet of doom....
Even just the HTV ident music is enough to spook you. I was obsessed by this programme as a kid.
I used to live in the HTV West ITV region throughout most of the 70s and 80s, so probably the station ident was spooking me several times a day.
Though I usually can't stand people going on about how great tv was in the old days, or (more likley) how terrible it all is now (they need to watch more) I have to admit this is probably one of the best British children's tv shows ever made, at least in the field of sci-fi, and has yet to be topped. I also note that it has no problem showing a main character to be intelligent and academically able, or rather academically capable and yet not shoehorned into a narrow stereotype of a "nerd" or "swot" in a desperate attempt to replicate an American school by people who have never been to one.
Agreed, it's up there, especially for something of its age. The UK also had the Tomorrow People, which might not have been quite up to this but was still far better about assuming children had functioning brains than the vast majority of kids' shows in any era.
Modern programing has some gems too, but they tend to be animated rather than live action fare. The last bearable live-action kid show I can recall seeing was 2020's Astronauts over on Nick, which was worth a look for a change.
I love this series. I was in Avebury a couple of times last year. The first time I stayed at a B&B down the road, about 5 minutes from the stones. I asked one of the owners if she had seen this series. She said she had started to watch it, but the creepy music freaked her out--and she could not continue watching it knowing the stones were practically in her back yard!
Could you recommend a b+b there?
@@f.dmcintyre4666 Right in the centre of the stone circle :)
www.booking.com/hotel/gb/silbury-house.en-gb.html
I LOVED this series. I think it whetted my appetite to probe the knowledge of ancients, and certainly to puzzle over the real significance and nature of standing stones sites aroud the world.
Oh how fab to see this again, the gateway drug to the Wicker Man
That theme music creeped me out as a kid. Decades later, it still does.
This was a great series. They don't make kids programs like this anymore. Very creepy.
Children nowadays wouldn't get it.
@@brigittegeorg They'd demand a trigger warning at the beginning.
@brigitte george my daughter loves it, and some of her friends. They seem to get it just fine.
I went to see Avebury in the early 1980s. It was pretty much like you see in this series--very few tourists. It was a dull, drizzly day and the place left a mystical impression on me. I've never been back because I don't want to spoil that memory.
My Dad was a truck driver in the 60's and 70's, he spoke about driving through Avebury and having an odd feeling.......
@@f.dmcintyre4666 *X-Files theme plays*...
I was 6 when this came up. At the time I was living in Swindon 30 mins away from Avebury.
I was scared from this just the music was creepy!
Living in Scotland and when I go see my family always go to see my Stones, as a Pagan, I feel a power in them.
Why was ur family holding ur Stones 🙂🤣🤣🥴🤣
Mind expanding for a 9 year old. Both the show as a whole and that incredible opening sequence and theme. I can’t say for sure but I doubt that kids of that age now get there minds scared and opened as my generation did with some of the wonderfully thought provoking TV shows we had on offer....
This was one most interesting pieces of children's television which me and my sister enjoyed watching.
I was in Avebury just yesterday. I'm amazed the stones in this series aren't crawling with tourists.
Probably because all the tourists are going to the much more famous Stonehenge instead.
I've just started watching this..Forty four years after its music scared me so much as a child.
I love all of this old weird shit
It's about as old as your stupid comment!
fantastic show, this is the reason our son is disturbed
This is a great mini series. I saw it once as a kid in the late 70s and never saw it again until right now, Jan 2020. Thanks for posting this. The quality is far superior to any of the shows they are putting out today.
But with this being filmed during the summer of 1976, the heatwave must have been so overwhelming mustn’t it while filming.
The Clifton House Mystery is even MORE frightening than this,,,, Starring Peter Sallis and a very frightening ghost of a Dragoon Guard......
I know what you mean, I spent many a night hiding under the bedclothes
That disturbing music frightened the life out of me as a child. Even that HTV intro thing was weird. No wonder we all ended up a mess!
I lived in the HTV West ITV region for most of the 70s and 80s, so I heard their "jingle" many, many times. Maybe why I'm weird and messy now?
@@michaelturner4457 :) haha
@@StarWarsJay I guess you didn't experience HTV's original ident animation, which was a hypnotic mass of rotating black and white lines that spelled out "HARLECH". ua-cam.com/video/-agHZuB59N0/v-deo.html
Which worked well on 405-line TV, But apparently it didn't go very weil with the later 625-line standard, So they changed to the animated aerial looking one, but with the same weird "jingle".
A minute before the credits roll ur thinking "this isn't as terrifying as everyone seems to think" and then they hit you with those voices
i be looking for this a long time i thought it was tomorrows people but now i found it
Definitely a story I watch on UA-cam when I’m working not so hard on other projects on my PC - it makes a great ‘audiobook.’ My partner also loves watching this with me. It’s nice to see something from so long ago she says. Sadly growing up in the 1990s she missed out on a lot of these things. She did however see lots of things like Gerry Anderson shows growing up in Eastern Europe on old channels, they’d get stuff like that really cheap I’d imagine. She’s a big fan of this, and Doctor Who and Blake’s 7.
"partner",i hope you are now married.
Ah they certainly knew how to scare the living shit out of kids back then! These days the producer would be on a register somewhere!!
RIP Gareth Thomas.
ua-cam.com/video/TZhO5qCXx-w/v-deo.html
Classic British TV.
5:02 - I expect Mrs Crabtree fainted because it was the first time she'd seen something more wooden than her in the room.
Forgot all about this program till just now. I was watching 70-80 kids programs and the clip of this comes on. We had the best kids programs.
This reminds me of Land of the Lost. I recently saw the show rerun and I was surprised at the complex theories they presented.
That screaming throughout the theme music goes right through my skull. Nice big block of ice cream in that "cornet" at 12:00.
RIP Gareth Thomas
"The series followed the adventures of astrophysicist Adam Blake, sorry Brake" ;)
Brake's Seven? There are 7 episodes after all
That Austin Maxi has impressive brakes.
Very funny. I thought much the same to myself while watching!
I remember this drama series well - enjoyed it immensely.
Never seen this before now. I regret that i haven't seen it sooner.
Well this is great! Somehow missed it as a kid, and now aware of it via Fortean Times. Looking forward to watching the series after that... :-D
Thank you for the upload,from one Wells to another
I Remember This One! 😁❤️ Every Almost 50 Years Before This One.! 😁❤️
I remember this in the 1970s , I liked it then and I m watching it again ! Thing is there is nt a great difference between this children programme and some adult horror material , E G Quatermass and the Pitt film 1967.
This was my introduction to Satanism and I'm still a devotee. Thanks !
this was such an intelligent show
thank you for upload this series lee wells
Avebury's stones send dowsing rods crazy. I have tried it many times.
Un huh
Same thing at the Rollright Stones , so I've heard.
Happy Day.
I’m hoping to go and explore Avebury sometime to see what it’s like and to find some of the locations and I could go during the summer holidays maybe or sometime sooner.
This scared me to death . It was on after school too. Anybody Watch nobodies ghost too. Good ol days . Little house on the prairie, tomorrow people .
.....first time watching this.....so many questions.....very strange, but very interesting also. I haven't seen a show like this on childrens TV recently!
I miss the time when TV shows could literally make folk horror for kids and get away with it...
With a moniker like Children of the Stones you might expect a documentry with interviews of the offspring of groupies who spent a lot of time with Jagger, Richards & Co.
Ha. Ha. Ha. How clever and original.
Was 6 years old when this was on, the opening absolutely terrified me.
Happy Day!
lol that kids my uncle
Whos here 2020?
Anyone else watching this after Radcliffe and Maconie yesterday?
Scared the shite out of me as well!
The theme is incredibly similar to Into The Labyrinth, with Ron Moody and the fabulous Pamela Salem, also I think made my HTV.
This show's opening had been in the back of my mind for many, many years. I only kept a vague memory of it...But i remembered clearly how it terrified me!!!
Could the "Time Rift" been affected at 10:20? Matt sees a truck coming and it looks like Bob will be run down. But after Matt winces at the sight of a truck hitting Bob the camera pans back on Bob on his bike and not hurt at all, and the Truck disappears . I think that Millbury in "real time" at this point ended for Matt and his father as they were now entering into Hendrick's circle.
Just thought. That new boy that's moved into the village. Looks like Blake7 and just thought. The young lad who shared a cell Ronnie Barker in Porraige.
I read the book, when I was 10 or 11. And I read it more than once over the decades, but the last time was like 8 or more years ago. Guess I'll read it again someday. I didn't know there was TV series, cause I'm from Germany and we only had the first book, but not even the 2nd "Return to the stones". There's also a movie from 1998, which has a bit of a similiar story "Perfect Little Angels".
Thanks for uploading this!
Spooky viewing!
:0)
Wonder how much influence this show had on the Doctor Who story Stones of Blood a few years down the road. Very different in the details of course, but seeing this might have provided some inspiration at least.
I'm 26 years old and ive never seen this but this music is creepy af
I am 37 years old, i am ex-special forces soldier, seen MANY SHIT in my life, and opening scene with screaming stones scares ME like hell.
Is it really FOR KIDS?
Made in 1976,but sadly never repeated. It's on DVD now, I bought mine from Amazon.
Happy Day 😳
I've never seen this; quite entertaining. The music is creepy, even creepier are the 70's hair and fashion!
I remember this. Really freaky but fantastic viewing.
This is fantastic
That stone didn't agree with Blake.
The joke about selling his broken bike to the Tate Gallery would be a dig about Equivalent VIII - or "The Bricks in the Tate" by Carl Andre, which the gallery acquired in the 1970s - after that people thought the Tate would buy any old crap and call it Art. My school art teacher on the other hand, thought Equivalent VIII was a modern masterpiece!
I know it has been about 50 years, but I distinctly remember a scene where the father and son drive out of the village only to find the road leads them straight back in. Am I going mad, or have I misremembered a different series, and mixed it with this?
Good old days of UK kids TV great for nightmares...This, Timeslip, even old pogles wood
I used to get nightmares from watching Play School.
Happy fucking day to all of you
Thomas Sheridan and Sara Mondiani brought me here through the Hocus Focus channel. If you're into weird shit, give it a visit.
You'd know that was made in the LSD days. The days when you knew when an add was coming up by the squiggly thing at the top right of your screen.
Square cornets - ah, the memories!
I remember this from Nickelodeon as part of an anthology series called the third eye
Chris Moxcey it aired on a programming block on nick In the early 80s👻
That is where I initially viewed it on Nickelodeon.
I also saw this on "The Third Eye", along with; " Into The Labyrinth", "The Haunting of Cassie Palmer" and "Under the Mountain". This story is the creepiest of the 4. But I enjoy coming back to it from time to time.
ok, anyone else remember a tv series where a kid would draw things and they would happen in a sort of nightmare world. was filmed in uk in the midlands.. there was a girl in a house and he scribbled over the windows in his drawings and then it happened on her house ?
Jeez that was a kids show!! 😱
I've only seen Gareth in Blakes Seven
He was in one episode of Hammer House of Horrror
Im here because of Geofrey Drumm and the Danny Jones podcast.
I WISH I'd seen this back when it came out; I would've been 16 or 17 at the time; but watching it now I still think it's just brilliant T.V. and NOT too adult for kids with a bit of grey matter and imagination as some think.
Let's compare this to the absolute dross on our television now..reality shite .. cheap tv where no one needs to think..
This excellent TV series is also a book.
Wasn't there another show called Secret of the Stones after this?
I remember watching this when I was young and I still think it is well done. That said, the music is a bit much.
I would if I had millions or billions of pounds live in Avebury in Wiltshire and also Wiltshire is a lovely county in England
No wonder we were all bonkers in the 70's LOL
Stranger danger creepy guy with spy glass
music makes me piss my pant!
+Steve Longden All music or just the music for this series?
ah...well....this music,,,,and the World At War closing titles....but merely as a figure of speech.
Avebury not Milbury. A lot more mystical than Stonehenge
i assumed the children of The Stones were the neglected offspring of Jagger and Richards. 😊