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Jeopardy (BBC TV series)
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Jeopardy was a BAFTA award-winning Scottish
television
series which ran for three series, from 2002 to 2004, on BBC One
. It was created by Tim O'Mara who also directed, and all three series were produced by Andy Rowley
with exec for Wark Clements Richard Langridge
. It has aired numerous times on the ABC Kids segment, RollerCoaster. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and filmed on location in both Scotland
and Australia
. CBBC currently have no plans for it to be re-aired, the last re-run being in 2008. In 2002 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first series Best Children's Drama.
The show is about a group of eight high-school students and their teacher who go from Falkirk
, Scotland
, to the Australia
n bush to look for UFOs. They are given camcorders to record any sightings, and the series (much like the Blair Witch Project) makes extensive use of jerky footage supposedly from those handheld cameras.
As of yet, the series has not been released on either VHS
or DVD
. It still airs in Australia on ABC3
and as of the 10th of September, 2010, ABC1.
Craig Moncur
- Harry Hastings. Harry is an outcast of the group. He isn't very popular at school, but proves himself a good friend to everyone later on. He is very loyal but can start to accuse people without evidence. In the absence of their teacher, Gerry Simmons, he takes charge of the group. He begins a relationship with Lucy and she finds out he has epilepsy. The last series is when he is enthusiastic to get his friends back but gives up when he thinks it is impossible. We don't know if he survived in the last episode.
Samantha Bowie - Lucy Jeffers. Lucy the tomboy. She is also very loyal and can get very frustrating to be around if she is upset or nervous. She goes crazy when she finds out her best friend is missing, Sarah. She did everything she could with the help of the group to find her, but was unsuccessful, leading Lucy to become even more depressed and on-edge. Harry often cheers her up. She can be a bit out of control with her feelings and emotions and can be easily misjudged. In the last episode Lucy is seen with the red eye virus, but it is unknown whether she survives as the ending credits begin.
Gordon McCorkell
- David Hedges. David is into science and UFO's. He is well known for his knowledge of flora and fauna and his sense of direction. He is a main character of the first series, but then becomes the plot in the second. He is seen at the beginning of the third series. He is close friends with Harry but can get easily agitated and wants everything his way. This often caused tension with the rest of the group, and several characters have frequent arguments with or about him. He begins a relationship with Sarah early in the first series through their interest in UFOs. He tries hard to get along with Simon, but David is unsuccessful until the third series. They never become close friends. David does survive as he was sent by the aliens to Falkirk before the rest of the group and did not contract the red eye virus.
Kari Corbett
- Sarah Fitzwilliam. She is very conscious about the environment and had taken part in protests with her mother, leading her to be known as "tree hugger", or "hippy". She is very outgoing and energetic but becomes a bit more subdued as the seriousness of the situation dawns on her. She is changed in personality in the third series, being rather solemn. She is the first member of the group to experience alien contact. She begins to like David, but later finds him frustrating and they fall out for a while. At first she constantly has arguments with Chrissie but the two learn to get along, mainly because Chrissie becomes less awkward. She, like David, survives because she was sent back to Falkirk before the rest of the group and did not catch the red eye virus. David and Sarah forgive each other and become much closer after their experiences together.
James Anthony Pearson - Simon Tudor. Simon is athletic and sporty. He is one of the fittest, fastest and strongest members of the group, but he is also very arrogant and self confident. He is not unloyal but can become overwhelmed with stress, making him very challenging to get along with and leading him to make bad decisions. Because of this, he very rarely gets along with the rest of the group, though he does start a rocky relationship with Chrissie McAteer. He realises his mistakes, but often they have caused a lot of harm. He did not mean to be a traitor, but in the stress he thought it was the right thing to do. He is later reunited with the group after meeting Vic, of aboriginal descent. Vic shares his knowledge of the Sky Gods (Aliens) with Simon by going into an ancient cave system. Vic then helps Simon reunite himself with the rest of the group. He shows them the cave paintings and how they told the groups story. He proves himself a valuable member of the group in the end. Simon contracted the red eye and is the second last character to disappear.
Charli Wilson - Chrissie McAteer. Chrissie is a popular girl and is very fashion-conscious. She is often found wearing stylish clothing. In the beginning she is selfish and arrogant like Simon, but, like Simon, she reforms herself and day by day she cares more about her friends than herself. She is love-struck by Simon and only went on the trip to get to know him better, but she wasn't prepared for what would really happen. Simon, however, shows an interest in Sarah from the start, leaving Chrissie feeling alone and as an outcast, something she is not used to. Simon doesn't seem to notice Chrissie's suggestions until later on, when he needs her help. When Sarah is clear she isn't interested in Simon, he tries to make a relationship with Chrissie, but she, after seeing his true colours, isn't bothered about him anymore. Harry makes her realise that she still does like Simon, especially when they lock him in a train overnight. In the third series they get back together and have their first kiss. She was responsible for losing the anti-venom because she was jealous of Shona. Chrissie is the third to get the red eye virus.
Stanley Smith - Leon Duffy. Leon is energetic and strong like Simon. He doesn't always take things seriously, even when they are, which often agitates the group. He likes to be the center of attention and brings a bit of laughter to the group even in the saddest times. He strikes up an on/off friendship with Simon. He tries to play the hero, especially for Shona, who he builds a rocky relationship with. He is immature, but can be sensible and puts good ideas forward. He gets attacked by a snake in the first series and is tended for by Shona. He is the first to get the red eye virus.
Shelley O'Neill - Shona Campbell. Shona is the quietest member of the group. She's shy and very caring, but can let her emotions get the better of her, especially in the third series. She comes across as grumpy and serious, but this is mainly because she is easily upset. Leon shares a rocky relationship with her. He encourages her to be more outgoing and to cheer up. Her parents don't know she is on a UFO trip, she lied because she wanted to go but knew her parents wouldn't allow her unless it was educational. She feels overshadowed by her older brother who always gets praised for his achievements, whereas she doesn't feel she get noticed. She is misunderstood by most of the group. She becomes very jealous of Chrissie and Leons relationship and thinks that Leon has lost interest in her. They get back together shortly afterwards. Shona is torn apart when Leon falls victim to the red eye virus and disappears. She vanishes second, in front of Helen Stanich.
Steven Vidler
- Gerry Simmons. Gerry is the groups teacher, in charge of the Falkirk academy UFO club. He planned the trip, but he loses authority in the first series when he disappeared over a waterfall. The kids then have to take matters into their own hands with no adult supervision at all. Gerry is found near the end of series one, and is abducted with the rest of the group. He is the only one to have any memory of the encounter, and is believed to be mentally unstable by the government. The group see him in the hospital in series two, and then again in series 3 when he helps them find Asterid island.
Caroline Dunphy - Helen Stanich. Helen Stanich is responsible for monitoring abductees in Australia. She appears in the second and third series. She tracks the group across the continent. She wants to return them to Scotland. She lies and says that Sarah and David are in the institute, when they actually haven't returned from their abduction. She helps and hinders the group; letting them escape, then lying and keeping secrets from them. She wants the best for the group, but doesn't always known what the best is.
Tammy McIntosh - Melissa. Melissa is a park ranger and a character in the first series. She was to help Gerry Simmons, the groups teacher, to organise the trip. Shortly after realising the anti-venom was gone, Melissa treks out into the bush to find the jeeps and get help. She crashes, and tries to return to base-camp, but is captured by the smugglers. She is found, just after Gerry Simmons, by Simon. Melissa was last seen waiting for the police, guarding Arnie, a smuggler and boss to Melissa. Her fate is unknown.
Mukundan Jr - Mukundan. Mukundan accompanies Helen Stanich and Simon as he is the mastermind and the boss of Helen Stanich.
and UFOs. The school Ufology
club has organised a trip to the outback to search for extraterrestrial activity in Australia. But things take a turn for the worse.....
looking for David and Sarah. Sarah and David have also used some telepathy to talk to the other members of the group during their dreams or whether awake. Their search leads them around Australia, meeting with weird UFO buffs and bizarre twin girls, (Ruby and Anne) as well as encountering supernatural phenomena. Meanwhile Simon, in the train carriage, gets bitten by a venomous spider, and is rescued by a man called Vic (an Aborigine who believes in sky gods) whom he later befriends, he helps him search for the rest of the group. Vic shows Simon a cave full of paintings describing them as UFO encounters. He talks about how time does not go in straight lines but in circles and that the present and future will always inevitably come back to the past. When rejoined with the rest of the group, Simon shows them the cave paintings and everyone gets caved in apart from Lucy. Lucy runs to get help from the nearest town and is found by Stanich's agents. Stanich helps them get out of the cave and reveals that she is against the government agency she is working for. The agency wants to capture the aliens and will stop at nothing to achieve that. She helps them get to the Glass Mountains before a solar eclipse
(discovered by the cave paintings). They arrive at the Glass Mountains where they link arms in a hexagonal shape to bring the aliens down to return David and Sarah, however instead of coming back to Earth they welcome their group of friends with open arms to join them on the spaceship...
viewers were asked to vote for a way to end the series. The choices were a "spooky", "happy", or "surprising" ending. On the premiere of the final episode, the "spooky" ending won the vote.
The "spooky" ending left the series on a cliffhanger
, as a past Harry and Lucy encountered the future incarnations of themselves, who have returned from the future. At the shock of seeing her past self, and realising that two separate versions of herself now exist in one timeline, the red-eye virus kicks in, and the series ends with the future of Lucy being uncertain.
In a future repeat
of the episode, the vote was run again, however the "happy" ending was chosen. The only difference was that the episode ended before the alternate versions of Harry and Lucy entered the room. Ending on 25 January 2007, the series was run again, but this time the viewers were not asked to vote on an ending. The original, "spooky" ending was played again. The "surprising" ending has never been aired.
Tim O'Mara released that The Surprising ending was that Harry and Lucy along with the rest of the group were actually alien clones and the "red eye" virus was a way of keeping the clones in check by the aliens.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series which ran for three series, from 2002 to 2004, on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
. It was created by Tim O'Mara who also directed, and all three series were produced by Andy Rowley
Andy Rowley
Andy Rowley is a British television producer known for his children's dramas, including Jeopardy, which won a BAFTA Award for best children's drama in 2002, and Microsoap, Prix Jeunesse winner and BAFTA best children's drama award winner in 1999....
with exec for Wark Clements Richard Langridge
Richard Langridge
Richard James Langridge was an English first class cricketer who played for Sussex. He was the son of English Test cricketer James Langridge....
. It has aired numerous times on the ABC Kids segment, RollerCoaster. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and filmed on location in both Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. CBBC currently have no plans for it to be re-aired, the last re-run being in 2008. In 2002 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first series Best Children's Drama.
The show is about a group of eight high-school students and their teacher who go from Falkirk
Falkirk
Falkirk is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Forth Valley, almost midway between the two most populous cities of Scotland; north-west of Edinburgh and north-east of Glasgow....
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, to the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n bush to look for UFOs. They are given camcorders to record any sightings, and the series (much like the Blair Witch Project) makes extensive use of jerky footage supposedly from those handheld cameras.
As of yet, the series has not been released on either VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
or DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
. It still airs in Australia on ABC3
ABC3
-Future shows:Programming confirmed for future broadcast will include:* After School Care * Bindi's Boot Camp * Bushwacked! * Dance Academy * Dancing Down Under...
and as of the 10th of September, 2010, ABC1.
Cast
Main CastCraig Moncur
Craig-James Moncur
Craig-James Moncur is an Edinburgh based Actor/Producer. Best known for his role as "Harry Hastings" in BAFTA Winning CBBC Series Jeopardy, as well as roles in Monarch of the Glen, Inspector Rebus and How Not to Live Your Life...
- Harry Hastings. Harry is an outcast of the group. He isn't very popular at school, but proves himself a good friend to everyone later on. He is very loyal but can start to accuse people without evidence. In the absence of their teacher, Gerry Simmons, he takes charge of the group. He begins a relationship with Lucy and she finds out he has epilepsy. The last series is when he is enthusiastic to get his friends back but gives up when he thinks it is impossible. We don't know if he survived in the last episode.
Samantha Bowie - Lucy Jeffers. Lucy the tomboy. She is also very loyal and can get very frustrating to be around if she is upset or nervous. She goes crazy when she finds out her best friend is missing, Sarah. She did everything she could with the help of the group to find her, but was unsuccessful, leading Lucy to become even more depressed and on-edge. Harry often cheers her up. She can be a bit out of control with her feelings and emotions and can be easily misjudged. In the last episode Lucy is seen with the red eye virus, but it is unknown whether she survives as the ending credits begin.
Gordon McCorkell
Gordon McCorkell
Gordon McCorkell is a Scottish actor who has starred in several shows, such as Jeopardy , and is arguably best known as Derek Henderson in River City....
- David Hedges. David is into science and UFO's. He is well known for his knowledge of flora and fauna and his sense of direction. He is a main character of the first series, but then becomes the plot in the second. He is seen at the beginning of the third series. He is close friends with Harry but can get easily agitated and wants everything his way. This often caused tension with the rest of the group, and several characters have frequent arguments with or about him. He begins a relationship with Sarah early in the first series through their interest in UFOs. He tries hard to get along with Simon, but David is unsuccessful until the third series. They never become close friends. David does survive as he was sent by the aliens to Falkirk before the rest of the group and did not contract the red eye virus.
Kari Corbett
Kari Corbett
Kari Corbett is an actor, artist and film-maker who lives and works between the USA and Europe.As an actor, Corbett is best known for her roles as Nurse Marian McKaig in ITV's The Royal, Zoe in Monarch Of The Glen, Kirsty Henderson in River City and Sarah in the BAFTA award winning Jeopardy...
- Sarah Fitzwilliam. She is very conscious about the environment and had taken part in protests with her mother, leading her to be known as "tree hugger", or "hippy". She is very outgoing and energetic but becomes a bit more subdued as the seriousness of the situation dawns on her. She is changed in personality in the third series, being rather solemn. She is the first member of the group to experience alien contact. She begins to like David, but later finds him frustrating and they fall out for a while. At first she constantly has arguments with Chrissie but the two learn to get along, mainly because Chrissie becomes less awkward. She, like David, survives because she was sent back to Falkirk before the rest of the group and did not catch the red eye virus. David and Sarah forgive each other and become much closer after their experiences together.
James Anthony Pearson - Simon Tudor. Simon is athletic and sporty. He is one of the fittest, fastest and strongest members of the group, but he is also very arrogant and self confident. He is not unloyal but can become overwhelmed with stress, making him very challenging to get along with and leading him to make bad decisions. Because of this, he very rarely gets along with the rest of the group, though he does start a rocky relationship with Chrissie McAteer. He realises his mistakes, but often they have caused a lot of harm. He did not mean to be a traitor, but in the stress he thought it was the right thing to do. He is later reunited with the group after meeting Vic, of aboriginal descent. Vic shares his knowledge of the Sky Gods (Aliens) with Simon by going into an ancient cave system. Vic then helps Simon reunite himself with the rest of the group. He shows them the cave paintings and how they told the groups story. He proves himself a valuable member of the group in the end. Simon contracted the red eye and is the second last character to disappear.
Charli Wilson - Chrissie McAteer. Chrissie is a popular girl and is very fashion-conscious. She is often found wearing stylish clothing. In the beginning she is selfish and arrogant like Simon, but, like Simon, she reforms herself and day by day she cares more about her friends than herself. She is love-struck by Simon and only went on the trip to get to know him better, but she wasn't prepared for what would really happen. Simon, however, shows an interest in Sarah from the start, leaving Chrissie feeling alone and as an outcast, something she is not used to. Simon doesn't seem to notice Chrissie's suggestions until later on, when he needs her help. When Sarah is clear she isn't interested in Simon, he tries to make a relationship with Chrissie, but she, after seeing his true colours, isn't bothered about him anymore. Harry makes her realise that she still does like Simon, especially when they lock him in a train overnight. In the third series they get back together and have their first kiss. She was responsible for losing the anti-venom because she was jealous of Shona. Chrissie is the third to get the red eye virus.
Stanley Smith - Leon Duffy. Leon is energetic and strong like Simon. He doesn't always take things seriously, even when they are, which often agitates the group. He likes to be the center of attention and brings a bit of laughter to the group even in the saddest times. He strikes up an on/off friendship with Simon. He tries to play the hero, especially for Shona, who he builds a rocky relationship with. He is immature, but can be sensible and puts good ideas forward. He gets attacked by a snake in the first series and is tended for by Shona. He is the first to get the red eye virus.
Shelley O'Neill - Shona Campbell. Shona is the quietest member of the group. She's shy and very caring, but can let her emotions get the better of her, especially in the third series. She comes across as grumpy and serious, but this is mainly because she is easily upset. Leon shares a rocky relationship with her. He encourages her to be more outgoing and to cheer up. Her parents don't know she is on a UFO trip, she lied because she wanted to go but knew her parents wouldn't allow her unless it was educational. She feels overshadowed by her older brother who always gets praised for his achievements, whereas she doesn't feel she get noticed. She is misunderstood by most of the group. She becomes very jealous of Chrissie and Leons relationship and thinks that Leon has lost interest in her. They get back together shortly afterwards. Shona is torn apart when Leon falls victim to the red eye virus and disappears. She vanishes second, in front of Helen Stanich.
Steven Vidler
Steven Vidler (actor)
Steven Vidler is an Australian actor known for his part in the Scottish–Australian series Jeopardy.-Career:His film credits include The Good Wife where he played "Sugar", the younger brother who 'knew' his brother's wife...
- Gerry Simmons. Gerry is the groups teacher, in charge of the Falkirk academy UFO club. He planned the trip, but he loses authority in the first series when he disappeared over a waterfall. The kids then have to take matters into their own hands with no adult supervision at all. Gerry is found near the end of series one, and is abducted with the rest of the group. He is the only one to have any memory of the encounter, and is believed to be mentally unstable by the government. The group see him in the hospital in series two, and then again in series 3 when he helps them find Asterid island.
Caroline Dunphy - Helen Stanich. Helen Stanich is responsible for monitoring abductees in Australia. She appears in the second and third series. She tracks the group across the continent. She wants to return them to Scotland. She lies and says that Sarah and David are in the institute, when they actually haven't returned from their abduction. She helps and hinders the group; letting them escape, then lying and keeping secrets from them. She wants the best for the group, but doesn't always known what the best is.
Tammy McIntosh - Melissa. Melissa is a park ranger and a character in the first series. She was to help Gerry Simmons, the groups teacher, to organise the trip. Shortly after realising the anti-venom was gone, Melissa treks out into the bush to find the jeeps and get help. She crashes, and tries to return to base-camp, but is captured by the smugglers. She is found, just after Gerry Simmons, by Simon. Melissa was last seen waiting for the police, guarding Arnie, a smuggler and boss to Melissa. Her fate is unknown.
Mukundan Jr - Mukundan. Mukundan accompanies Helen Stanich and Simon as he is the mastermind and the boss of Helen Stanich.
Plot
Jeopardy is about a group of eight teenage school kids, Simon, Chrissie, Lucy, Harry, Sarah, David, Shona and Leon, from Falkirk, Scotland, and their teacher, Gerry Simmons, who go to Australia in search of aliensExtraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
and UFOs. The school Ufology
Ufology
Ufology is a neologism coined to describe the collective efforts of those who study reports and associated evidence of unidentified flying objects . UFOs have been subject to various investigations over the years by governments, independent groups, and scientists...
club has organised a trip to the outback to search for extraterrestrial activity in Australia. But things take a turn for the worse.....
Series 1 (2002)
The group go to the Australian outback to look for extraterrestrial activity(aliens). The eight teenagers, their teacher, and a park ranger, Melissa, stay in tents, with monitoring equipment set up around the area. On the first day Sarah sees "Alien lights" and is convinced that they were, but not everyone believes her. Soon after Leon is bitten by a deadly snake, and the anti venom is missing from the medical supplies. Melissa goes in search of medicine, but something stops her on the way. The teenagers find themselves alone, their teacher's control thwarted by rasher members of the group. The group see strange lights in the sky and radio signals fail. David is thwarted by Simon and Chrissie who escape in turn to save themselves. Later all of the group members including Melissa and Gerry meet up in a small hut. As the series ends they discover that the alien activity was faked by smugglers who were trying to recover a stash of stolen diamonds, but what they don't know is that not all of it was an act. However, as they finally leave to return to Falkirk, they are abducted by aliens......Series 2 (2003)
The second series starts with the group on Paramundi ridge, where they are picked up by several helicopters. They are taken to a military complex where they realise that their camcorder recordings have been erased. Gerry has been taken to a mental institution due to him raving that they were abducted by aliens before being replaced and picked up by the military. The group also realise that their friends David and Sarah are missing. Leon escapes the military compound and they realize they are one day behind but can't figure out how. They escape from the facility and are pursued by an agent called Stanich. Later on, Chrissie who was in hospital finds out that Simon has been betraying the group and has been telling Stanich about what the group knows with a mobile phone given to him by Stanich. They plan to lock him in a railway wagon for one night to teach him a lesson but when they come to pick him up the next morning, they soon realise the wagon has gone. They travel around Australia in an old KombiVolkswagen Type 2
The Volkswagen Type 2, officially known as the Transporter or Kombi informally as Bus or Camper , was a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 , it was given the factory...
looking for David and Sarah. Sarah and David have also used some telepathy to talk to the other members of the group during their dreams or whether awake. Their search leads them around Australia, meeting with weird UFO buffs and bizarre twin girls, (Ruby and Anne) as well as encountering supernatural phenomena. Meanwhile Simon, in the train carriage, gets bitten by a venomous spider, and is rescued by a man called Vic (an Aborigine who believes in sky gods) whom he later befriends, he helps him search for the rest of the group. Vic shows Simon a cave full of paintings describing them as UFO encounters. He talks about how time does not go in straight lines but in circles and that the present and future will always inevitably come back to the past. When rejoined with the rest of the group, Simon shows them the cave paintings and everyone gets caved in apart from Lucy. Lucy runs to get help from the nearest town and is found by Stanich's agents. Stanich helps them get out of the cave and reveals that she is against the government agency she is working for. The agency wants to capture the aliens and will stop at nothing to achieve that. She helps them get to the Glass Mountains before a solar eclipse
Solar eclipse
As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least...
(discovered by the cave paintings). They arrive at the Glass Mountains where they link arms in a hexagonal shape to bring the aliens down to return David and Sarah, however instead of coming back to Earth they welcome their group of friends with open arms to join them on the spaceship...
Series 3 (2004)
The group, minus Gerry, David and Sarah, find themselves back home in Falkirk. They quickly realise that they are only visible to two people - David and Sarah - and are in the future. David and Sarah were returned to Earth to witness the apparent suicide of the rest of the group. While David and Sarah stay in Scotland, the rest of the group return to Australia via a time travel portal. Back in Australia, three days from their "death", they are visible again, and are continually pursued by Stanich. They realise that they must try to contact the aliens so that everything can be returned to normal. But things go terribly wrong when they discover that all their portal travel has given them a condition called "RED EYE" disease. With this condition, when an individual gets stressed, their iris turns red and they "split", looking as if there are two separate people for a number of seconds, and then promptly disappearing. As more and more of them disappear, the remaining members must team up with the evil alien twins. Eventually their search leads them to a top-secret base on Astrid Island. On this island, they find their friends who had disappeared. however, they now have the mentality of seven year olds, and the unusual symptom of appearing black on an infra-red camera. At the end of series 3, Harry and Lucy meet with two twin boys, who reveal themselves as aliens. The aliens inform them that they were the original inhabitants of Earth, and all of their species are twins. they then travel back in time to Falkirk on the day of the UFO meeting and convince the group not to go to Australia by showing them the tapes they recorded throughout the show. The series ends with the past versions of Lucy and Harry entering the classroom and the current Lucy's eye turning red.Ending
At the end of series three, CBBCCBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
viewers were asked to vote for a way to end the series. The choices were a "spooky", "happy", or "surprising" ending. On the premiere of the final episode, the "spooky" ending won the vote.
The "spooky" ending left the series on a cliffhanger
Cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...
, as a past Harry and Lucy encountered the future incarnations of themselves, who have returned from the future. At the shock of seeing her past self, and realising that two separate versions of herself now exist in one timeline, the red-eye virus kicks in, and the series ends with the future of Lucy being uncertain.
In a future repeat
Rerun
A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz. There are two types of reruns—those that occur during a hiatus, and those that occur when a program is syndicated. Reruns can also be, as the...
of the episode, the vote was run again, however the "happy" ending was chosen. The only difference was that the episode ended before the alternate versions of Harry and Lucy entered the room. Ending on 25 January 2007, the series was run again, but this time the viewers were not asked to vote on an ending. The original, "spooky" ending was played again. The "surprising" ending has never been aired.
Tim O'Mara released that The Surprising ending was that Harry and Lucy along with the rest of the group were actually alien clones and the "red eye" virus was a way of keeping the clones in check by the aliens.