Australia's The Stranger - remastered and streaming!

[Robert Mammone]

Article:

www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-02/abc-iview-to-stream-the-stranger-australian-dr-who/11870424?sf229429804=1

Streaming link to ABC iView: iview.abc.net.au/show/retrofocus-presents-the-stranger

[John Smith]

Thanks for the link will have a watch later

[Simon B Kelly]

All six episodes of Series 1 are available now. These were originally broadcast on ABC in Australia 26 April - 30 May 1964 and on the BBC in the UK 25 February - 1 April 1965. If you thought Doctor Who was low budget wait until you see this! The flying saucer appears to be made of wood with a sliding door that you have to manually open and close. You never see it take off or land as it's obviously just a studio prop.

The events described could certainly never happen today: a strange man appears outside a school and within minutes gets offered a job as a teacher, starting the very next day, without any qualifications, references or police checks. He befriends three of the kids (two boys and a girl) who think he's a bit strange but agree to keep his secrets and promise not to tell their parents! He then abducts them for a week and flies them to his planet. When they get back their Dad is a little bit angry but promises to help the stranger after he gets arrested. The Dad, who is skeptical about their story, asks a professor to speak to the kids about their kidnapping. The professor suggests the kids show him the spacecraft and amazingly gets permission from their parents to go on a journey with them, all alone, out in the Australian bush, the next day!

That brings us up to episode 5 that I'm just about to watch now...

[RWels]

Entire series, all twelve episodes, are now on youtube. Very interesting and clearly a labour of love that they restored it.