When I was a little one in the 80’s, I had this one recorded show in my daily VHS rotation. It was about a boy who lived in a place where there was no sunlight. One day the sun would rise for only a few minutes, but bullies locked the boy in a closet so he couldn’t go outside with everyone else. From inside the small room, the boy could see a small beam of sunlight slip under the locked door. When he freed himself from the room it was too late and the sun was gone, never to be seen again for a long, long time. In the end a girl gave the boy a flower.
Wow, what a depressing thing to show a little kid. What were my parents thinking? I asked them about it but they can’t remember the name.
It sounds remarkably like the Ray Bradbury short story “All Summer in a Day,” but in that story it’s about a planet that’s home to non stop rain and the sun only comes out for a brief moment once every seven years or so. But a girl’s schoolmates end up locking her in the coatroom during the sun’s appearance. According to Wikipedia:
Whenever I see one of these threads the first thing that comes into my mind is an old show from the early-'80s (or late-'70s) about a group of space explorers (riding around in a Space Shuttle) who pass through time and land on a future Earth where everything is different.
I asked about it before but there was no definitive answer. Ark II (which sounds vaguely familiar) featured a super-RV, and the series I’m thinking of definitely opened with a Space Shuttle returning to Earth. Voyagers has time travel, but I only recall the Shuttle (and that it seemed the Earth was very lush and overgrown – people were living in a more-or-less non-technical world?) and don’t remember any travelling to different periods in history.
