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anyway, I’m dating myself (28) but when I was in late elementary school on Nickelodeon channel there was a very strange (for the time) show on, and I can’t remember the name (the sleestack thread got me thinking). It seemed somewhere in between Dr Who and the X Files-- started with a creepy credit sequence with neon-negative hands and things and was about mutant space-brit teens. It may have been called to Tomorrow People or something like that? Does anyone remember this?
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Yes - it was called the “Tomorrow People” and was about a group of really weird Brit teens who were “forerunners” of the next step in human evolution. I used to love the show when I was very young (I’m 26 now), but I hardly think I understood it all. They could teleport themselves (strictly through mind control - they called it “jaunting” iirc) and had other powers like telekinesis and telepathy. There was one guy named “John” who was like the older brother/leader of the group. There was another kid named Tycho and a girl named Sarah. John (who looked a lot like Bob Saget now that I think about it) was like the only person on the show who stayed constant.
I don’t really remember the purpose of the show, except that these kids were somehow able to identify mutations in the general [British] population and would go and kidnap teenagers who exhibited these powers and assimilate them into the group. It was really really weird and new characters would just kind of rotate on and off each week.
They also liked to go into space a lot (they could “jaunt” their way onto spaceships). And they often visited other planets. I remember specifically an episode where some evil overlord guy had co-opted another plant and installed a machine that took away the powers of the indigenous Tomorrow People, so the Earthly Tomorrow People went there and while powerless themselves, empowered the local teens to fight back and smash the machine.
And they also had a cool hideaway with computers big lighted tables.
That’s all I remember - I sometimes wish I could see the show again just to see it through more mature eyes. Like I said, it was one of my favorites.
Oh yea, I remember that show too. It was called The Tomorrow People. I kind of liked the first few episodes, then the show went on a steady decline.
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That’s what I’m doing! I’m not hiding behind my paralyzing fear of rejection and my annoying fear of trust, I’m “dating myself.” How…armchair psych! I love it!
Oh. You meant as in years. Damn that improper syntax. Nevermind.
And speaking of really weird Brit programming on Nickelodeon, I was thinking recently of a similar show, except it might have been Australian or Kiwi. It was about these two twins (a boy and a girl) who were summoned by some crazy old man to fight aliens that had come to earth to release giant worms (that looked kind of similar to the Michelin Man) that would turn the whole world into mud and kill everyone if these twins couldn’t stop them. It was more of a serial than a series - every episode pointed towards an eventual climatic fight with the worm-guy.
I don’t remember much except that in the final episode, the twins were instructed to stand on opposite sides of town and each hold a rock (one red, one blue) in their hands and at some prescribed moment an arc of energy would radiate between the two rocks and somehow kill all of the worms. But during this scene, the rocks got really hot and caused boy-twin to drop his rock, which infuriated the crazy old man who called him “FOOL!” (I remember this distinctly) - and the rock lost a lot of power from this accident, but somehow it had just enough to complete the arc and wipe out the worms.
Does anyone else remember this particular show? What was it’s name? Now that I describe it, it sounds even weirder than the “Tomorrow People”
please don’t think less of me for this post - I swear this was a real show - 
Johnny, I think you’re talking about “The Third Eye”. I couldn’t find it on imdb.com, but I remember watching it on Nickolodeon when I was in middle school (82-85). I specifically remember that a younger man found the twins first and gave them the stones, but they didn’t recognize/couldn’t use them. It turned out that they had each others’ stone. The young man was caught out on a lake by the worm creatures and killed, and then the older man showed up.
I believe the Third Eye did story arc, ending the serial with the twins and then starting a story on something else. But that’s the one I remember best.
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What is this, some kind of freakout??
phouka - “The Third Eye” is correct. “The Third Eye” was a show that featured a bunch of different sci-fi mini-series for kids.
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What is this, some kind of freakout??
You guys are the best! While I was reading the above posts about the Tomorrow People, I thought, “I’ll ask and see if anyone else remembers the Third Eye!” ::sniff, sniff:: I love you guys!
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I enjoyed The Tomorrow People as a kid. Those badges they wore were neeeeeat.
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I remember The Tomorrow People (you forgot to mention Tim, the computer lava lamp that helped them sometimes). The reason they were assimilating the kids into their team was to stop them being exploited by nefarious no-good nasty guys.
Had a kick-ass theme tune too. Scarier than the X-Files one.
And Under The Mountain (which I was sure was much older than 1987… try 1978!) was a series I grew up remembering (being a New Zealander myself). Written by Maurice Gee. It was set in an area very very near where my Brother-in-Law grew up (and his parents still live there). He saw them filming. If you read the book, they mention all the street names and everything.
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And we thought we were all smart for remembering the show itself. Apparently it has quite a cult following…
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Now I want to see it again to see if it’s as cheesy as it sounds.