Sky (TV serial)
A mystically oriented children's science fantasy serial from 1975.
Sky is a mystically oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from 7 April to 19 May 1975. The story follows a mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes named Sky (Marc Harrison) who finds himself on Earth in the wrong period of time, using his psychic powers to find a way to his correct temporal destination after 'The Chaos'. He is confronted by the world soul of Earth in the form of Nature, which tries to reject him like an immune system, and is assisted by three human children.
- field
- Television serial
- known_for
- Children's science fantasy serial
- broadcast_dates
- 7 April to 19 May 1975
- network
- ITV
- production_company
- HTV
- writers
- Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Lore & Background
Sky was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, also known for their scripts for the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who and the HTV West children's fantasy drama series Into the Labyrinth. The serial was produced by HTV for ITV and broadcast in seven episodes: 'Burning Bright' (7 April 1975), 'Juganet' (14 April 1975), 'Goodchild' (21 April 1975), 'What Dread Hand' (28 April 1975), 'Evalake' (5 May 1975), 'Life Force' (12 May 1975), and 'Chariot of Fire' (19 May 1975). The cast included Marc Harrison as Sky, Stuart Lock as Arby Vennor, Cherrald Butterfield as Jane Vennor, Richard Speight as Roy Briggs, and Robert Eddison as Goodchild, among others.
Reader's Guide
Although the series was kept on 2-inch videotape into the 1990s, during a transfer to film stock episodes 3 and 7 were damaged beyond repair. The series was finally released by Network Distributing Home Entertainment/Granada Ventures Ltd in May 2009, with the damaged segments replaced by inferior, but watchable, VHS copies of the episodes. In 2015, Baker wrote a novelisation of Sky, published by Fantom Films Books. In 2025, Big Finish Productions secured the license to revive Sky as an audio series set fifty years later, with Cloud Quinn in the title role and Edwin Flay as Arby; the first series was released in August 2025 and a second series followed in June 2026. The serial remains notable for its mystical themes and its connection to the writers' work on Doctor Who.
Did You Know?
- The serial was broadcast in seven parts from 7 April to 19 May 1975.
- Episodes 2, 3, and 7 were damaged or lost during a transfer to film stock.
- A novelisation by Bob Baker was published in 2015 by Fantom Films Books.
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