Children of the Stones was an undisputed landmark in children's television. Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray's groundbreaking fantasy series, starring Iain Cuthbertson and Gareth Thomas and filmed largely in Avebury in Wiltshire, combined scientific fact and fiction with pagan mythology and rural folklore in its portrayal of a village held captive by the sinister power of its Neolithic stone circle.Intelligent, atmospheric and genuinely unnerving, the series - often cited by those who grew up in the Seventies as the most frightening thing seen on television - was the... result of collaboration between writers Burnham and Ray, producer Patrick Dromgoole (whose previous credits had included classic HTV series Sky and Arthur of the Britons) and producer/director Peter Graham Scott; classical composer and conductor Sidney Sager scored the series' chilling theme and incidental music. Unsurprisingly, Children of the Stones has gained a devoted cult following in the decades since its first transmission in 1977 [show more]
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All seven episodes of the children's TV drama about a scientist, Adam Brake (Gareth Thomas), and his son, Matthew (Peter Demin), who, on visiting the village of Milbury, find that its inhabitants have been struck by a psychic force. They soon come to realise that if they do not escape the clutches of the village they will never be able to leave. Episodes comprise: 'Into the Circle', 'Circle of Fear', 'Serpent in the Circle', 'Narrowing Circle', 'Charmed Circle', 'Squaring the Circle' and 'Full Circle'.
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