Children of the Stones

Children of the Stones was a 1977 landmark kids series. It was never repeated. The story is John Wyndham like. Astrophysicist Adam Brake arrives with his son, Matthew at the tiny village of Millbury. He's there for to research the strange stone circle that encompasses the entire village. Stranger still are the weirdly cheerful villagers with their fixed smiles and greeting of ‘Happy Day'. Shades of the Wicker Man abound when they start to understand that the circle itself holds people captive. And the mysterious Hendrick, a prominent figure in the village, is behind it all.

Children of the Stones is intelligent, atmospheric and genuinely unnerving tale. Not only that but it incorporates complex concepts. Things like ‘Time Circles', ‘Psychic Bubbles' and ‘Time Rifts'- tricky subjects for adults let alone a story supposedly aimed at children.