What Is It?

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of this all night, but I’m getting nowhere… back in the 80’s, on The Children’s Channel (back when they showed Voltron and Roustabout and well before they shortened the name to TCC, sometime between ‘87 and ‘90) I remember a series, I think set in Australia - I can’t remember the accents but it had that look about it - about a seaside town overrun by alien sea creature type things in disguise…. there was something significant about rocks the kids found on the beach or something, and the usual device of none of the adults - bar one of the grandparents - believing the kids until it was too late…. I think…. maybe some of what I’ve said is wrong, but I’m certain about the monsters part, and it was set by the seaside, and this was significant to the story.

But I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called, and I don’t have the foggiest idea how to look for it on the net. All I need is a name. I know I don’t have many readers (I can probably count them on one hand), but do any of you have any idea?

Update: John from work knew it; it was called Under The Mountain, made in New Zealand in the very early 80’s.

Fri 12 Apr 2002 at 23:41   ·