Watch This Space was a short-lived Australian children's

Children's television series

Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...

 science fiction television series

Australian science fiction television

Science fiction television has been produced in Australia since the 1960s, as a homegrown response to imported overseas US and British shows.Artransa Park productions made a number of programmes in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on shoestring budgets, these generally...

 which ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 from 7 April to 13 June 1982. The show starred Paul Chubb

Paul Chubb

Paul Chubb was an Australian film and television actor primarily in genres of comedy and drama. He was born Paul Dunford in Arncliffe, Sydney....

, in his first leading role on a television series, as a red skinned alien who arrives on Earth and attempts to live as a human. The alien is helped by a local man, played by co-star Ron Blanchard

Ron Blanchard

Ron Blanchard is an Australian film and television actor. He is best known for his starring roles in five popular children's television series Breakfast-a-Go-Go, The Lost Islands, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong, Watch This Space and Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin...

, who attempts to help him fit in including helping disguise his spaceship as a normal home and later moved in with him as a roommate.

Being largely unaware of Earth culture, the alien would regularly become involved in comical social situations. This was most often as his human friend's expense who, while receiving weekly visitors, continually tries to explain away his odd behavior and the existence of his talking shipboard computer. Other actors who appeared on the series included local bands, performers and celebrity

Celebrity

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 guest stars such as Steve Bisley

Steve Bisley

Steve Bisley is an Australian film and television actor, who attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art .-Acting career:...

, Liddy Clark

Liddy Clark

Elizabeth Anne Clark is an Australian actor and former Australian Labor Party politician.-Acting career:...

, Jon English

Jon English

Jonathan James "Jon" English is an Australian rock singer, musician, actor and writer. English emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1961...

, Rebecca Gilling

Rebecca Gilling

Rebecca Gilling is an Australian actress. Her first acting role was in Stone but who came to prominence as the "bad girl" flight attendant Diana Moore in the feature film version of soap opera Number 96 , in which she had several nude scenes...

, Tracy Mann

Tracy Mann

Tracy Mann is an Australian actress. Her film credits include Hard Knocks, The Scarecrow, and Fast Talking.Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in the 1970s television soap opera The Box. She is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing a character who ended up behind bars, deaf...

 and Kris McQuade

Kris McQuade

Kris McQuade is an Australian actress who has had many film, television and theatre roles.Her film credits include: The Love Letters from Teralba Road, Kostas, Fighting Back, Lonely Hearts, Goodbye Paradise, The Coca-Cola Kid, Strictly Ballroom, Billy's Holiday and December Boys.Television credits...

.