Look and Read - 15- Earth Warp [ TVrip DivX 5.0]

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Introduction (from www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/stories/earth/index.shtml)



Remember how everyone was all hung up on pollution and stuff in the early

90s? Well here's Look and Read reaction to that - a story involving a

funny alien boy coming to Earth and helping some kids from a seaside town

to put a stop to the bad pollution coming from an evil factory.

This story is a bit of an epilogue to Weeks-era Look and Read: Charles

Collingwood's gone but Derek Griffiths is still around, singing and

playing a Wordy-esque "language probe" in the in-between bits, which are

set in a local newspaper office. There's still the old song lyrics, but

the music has been altered to remove all traces of a tune (listen to some

of the painful clips coming here soon) and the animations have been

replaced with live action cartoony sequences: they've even got an actor

playing Bill The Brickie, for God's sake!

It's very possible that writer David Angus was a long-term Look and Read

fan and purposefully hid references to earlier stories in Earth Warp...

For instance, when the children first meet Ollie, a boy from space, he

talks in funny beeping noises just like Peep-Peep out of The Boy From

Space; the learning bits are based in a newspaper office, as were the

learning bits to The King's Dragon; and one episode of the radio spin-off

Space Warp revolves around a giant weather computer that could come right

out of Cloud Burst (actually it couldn't - there was no weather computer

in Cloud Burst, but many people seem to have the impression that there was).



Cast and Crew



Starring David Cooper as Martin Rowlands

Rachna Kapur as Amina Patel

Ellie Beavan as Jenny Steel

Helen Martin as Ollie

Caroline Holdaway as Mrs Rowlands

Mark Benton as Chef

Dean Harris as Mr Belcher

Anthony Milner as Joe Lowin

Joanna Wake as Miss Enid Grant

Rhoda Lewis as Mrs MacDonald

Michael Garner as Mr Steel

Stephen Rashbrook as policeman

Anna Bosworth as Claire Belcher

Derek Griffiths as Zot

Zoe Hilson as Sarah Brightly

Roger Ratajczak as Chris Smith

Singers Derek Griffiths

Imelda Staunton



Written by David Angus

Music by Roger Limb

Designer Alan Spalding

Executive producer Frank Flynn

Drama Director Peter Rose

Producer Ronald Smedley



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