Anyone remember children's sci-fi TV The Red Grass that hissed and burned in late 1950's?

Answer 1

I was eight and I watched some of it. It terrified me. I have a vague black and white image in my mind of boys and girls standing in a field and the rustling starts! Then the grass gets under their feet and they have to flee. I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room and half hiding under the legs of my dad's chair trying to get away from it. My parents didn't ban it. They banned Quatermass and the Pit, though. How could they show things like that in 1959 to children? Thank goodness Robin Hood and Sir Lancelot came along.

Answer 2

Yes - although I did not see all of it as my parrents 'banned' it as it was causing me to have nightmares! The opening sequence with the grass rustling sticks in my mind still.

The only information I have is:-

Transmitted: ITV, 06 January 1959 - 10 February 1959

Episodes/Length: 6 x 30m

Repeated: No. Format: Black & White

At the back of my mind I seem to recall 'dumb-bell' shaped spaceships associated with the programme - or does the mind cheat and these were in a completely diffferent programme !

Do any scripts or a novelisation exist ?

Chris Longhurst (19 June 2009)

I remember being very scared of it...

I seem to recall aliens taking over human beings... You could only detect them because they avoided any light. I also seem to recall the title music was Holst's Mars. I have to admit these are only the vaguest of memories and I could be mixing them up with other stories...

It amazes me that it was able to be screened to such a young audience...it was very scary and you're not alone to have had nightmares...Perhaps some Hollywood film company will revive the story and a new colour version will be made...perhaps...JM

Answer 3

I remember it as well, according to Wikipedia it was screened in 1959 so I was 9 and it terrified me too. We might think it strange that such a scary series was considered children's tv but consider most Fairy Tales with wolves eating grandmothers, witches eating children, wicked stepmothers poisoning their daughters etc etc so it was quite a normal genre. I'd love to see it again now but I'm guessing the tapes were all wiped as was the custom of the day.