# ID this old sci-fi show(?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855 "2007-11-10T00:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/1 "2007-11-10T00:25:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/2 "2007-11-10T00:29:00Z")
“All Summer in a Day”. [All Summer in a Day (TV Movie 1982) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195517/#comment) . Based on a Ray Bradbury short story. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/3 "2007-11-10T00:29:44Z")
Sounds like the Bradbury story, “All Summer In a Day”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/4 "2007-11-10T00:30:31Z")
[_All Summer In A Day_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195517/). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/5 "2007-11-10T00:31:22Z")
It’s an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story … …dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/6 "2007-11-10T00:32:00Z")
[The text](http://www.intermed.it/bradbury/Allsummer.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Malvert\_P.Redd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Malvert\_P.Redd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malvert_P.Redd)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/7 "2007-11-10T00:32:53Z")
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: > [@](#): > > A short film version was made for television in 1982, featuring an expanded ending in which the children atone by giving Margot all the flowers they picked while the sun was out. I’m guessing that’s what you saw. ---
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/8 "2007-11-10T00:35:09Z")
Looks like it’s “All Summer in a Day.” You guys are good at this. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/9 "2007-11-10T00:43:46Z")
This is a very popular “I seem to remember…” story. It comes up a lot. Clearly it had a great impact on people. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/10 "2007-11-10T01:11:20Z")
I’m more depressed that the OP calls something from the '80s an “old show.” 😃 I’ve never seen a TV adaptation of the story, but I sure remember reading it and visualizing my first-grade classroom…those windows, those closets. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/11 "2007-11-10T02:38:43Z")
They made a show out of that? Gadzooks… I wanted to open a vein after reading that (either mine or the bullies). Bradbury was pretty good at pulling me into a story. First read _Halloween Tree_ in 3rd grade, last time was in 7th… I’ve gotta find that one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-sci-fi-show/425855/12 "2007-11-10T02:44:45Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I’m more depressed that the OP calls something from the '80s an “old show.” 😃 [/QUOTE] 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295181) 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.