CHILDREN OF THE STONES - 1976

Children of the Stones is a British television drama serial for children
produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network
in January and February 1977. The story was depicted over seven episodes
and produced by Peter Graham Scott, with Patrick Dromgoole as executive
producer. A novelisation by the serial's writers, Jeremy Burnham and Trevor
Ray also appeared in 1977. In the United States, it was broadcast on the
Nickelodeon television channel in the early 1980s as part of the series
The Third Eye.The series is today considered a landmark in quality children's
drama and has been called "the scariest programme ever made for children".

The series followed the adventures of astrophysicist Adam Brake and his
young son Matthew after they arrive in the small village of Milbury, which
is built in the midst of a megalithic stone circle.Filmed at Avebury,
Wiltshire during Summer 1976, with interior scenes filmed at HTV's Bristol
studios, it was an unusually atmospheric production with sinister, discordant
wailing voices heightening the tension on the incidental music. The music was
composed by Sidney Sager who used the Ambrosian Singers to chant in accordance
with the megalithic rituals referred to in the story.[3] Director Peter Graham
Scott was surprised on seeing the script that the series was intended for
children's airtime due to the complexities of the plot and disturbing nature
of the series.The series is frequently cited by those who remember it as
one of the scariest things they saw as children.

Cast

Hendrick: Iain Cuthbertson
Adam: Gareth Thomas
Dai: Freddie Jones
Link: John Woodnutt
Margaret: Veronica Strong
Mrs Crabtree: Ruth Dunning
Matthew: Peter Demin
Sandra: Katharine Levy
Kevin: Darren Hatch
Jimmo: Gary Lock
Dr Lyle: Richard Mathews
Miss Clegg: June Barrie
Browning: Hubert Tucker
Mrs. Warner: Peggy Ann Wood
Bob: Ian Donnelly