The Changes

I first came across The Changes three years ago during 2022 in the summer and I started to become interested in it after I had been looking up the actress Vicky Williams who's in the series as I had seen her in a commercial quite a few years before but for the longest time I never knew who she was really and then I found out that she made minor or sometimes major appearances in a lot 1970s and 80s tv programmes including Crown Court, A Raging Calm, The Mallens, Coronation Street, Rooms, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and most importantly The Changes. From ever since I first watched The Changes I've always felt that's it's just a great tv series that I've throughly enjoyed and I remember when I first watched that I was just captivated and I enjoyed it from start to end and I think the plot and the story is acted out very well by all the actors who appear in the series especially Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton who play Nicky and Jonathan in the series because with Vicky Williams, you can tell she doesn't seem like a precocious or impressionable in the way she plays Nicky and she doesn't try too hard or overact dramatically as well for me and Keith Ashton is the same too he doesn't overact dramatically and you can tell both of the actors including other child and adult actors were taking the roles seriously as they were acting the parts out. I also like the fact that none of the series has ever seemed boring to me and even if there are some slower more conversation type scenes in the series, those scenes don't lack the energy that the rest of the series has and the series keeps moving at a decent pace throughout with no padding as I far as I've ever been able to tell through watching it over the last few years. I honestly think all in all, the changes is one of the best tv shows I've seen and I don't think there's really any other tv series from that period of time or now that matches up to it and though there's other tv series that were made around that time like Children of the stones, Into the labyrinth and Sky I don't think they capture my attention and interest me as much as The Changes. A definite 10 out of 10.

Watch out for pylons and telegraph poles out there people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Hello, i was only 8 years old when i watched the changes, it invokes powerful memories as images of series remind me of Berkeley power station where my father worked most of his life. More recently i have been playing computer game called half life 2, and only just realised some of the in game environments have a similar feel and atmosphere to images that i remember from the changes episodes.

No wonder i like the game so much, desolate landscapes filled with electricity pylons making that buzzing noise. I hope the series will be released, it will be amazing to watch it again after all these years.

I would be very grateful for any feedback related to the comments i have posted.

I remember watching this series when I was 6 years old, and I found it absolutely terrifying. After the first episode, as soon as the title page appeared I begged my mum to change channel because I really thought the TV was going to explode, or everyone outside in the street was really going to freak out and smash up everything while it was showing. At that age I just couldn't take this sort of programme. I had nightmares about "the noise" and school lock-outs, power blackouts and people rioting in the streets for years after. Actually it was almost an omen for late 70's Britain in many ways.

I couldn't remember the name of the series, until one day just idly surfing the net I happened to search for: "disturbing BBC1 children's series 1970s" to see if a well-known search engine could help me find it, and here it was.

I don't know what made BBC programmers think this apocalyptic stuff was suitable viewing for kids: young teens maybe, after Top Of The Pops or something similar, but I was still at the Paddington Bear level.

But I must admit I'd quite like to see it again now that I'm 38!

I remember this from the 70's. I only saw the middle episodes but still had vivid memories of it years later. UK Gold recently screened the whole series and I finally learned what had happened. They don't make children's drama like this anymore, pity. One other thing I noticed, when a threat was dealt with, it was over. These days unless you see the bad guy die you just know he will be back to plague the hero's due to a lack of imagination by the scriptwriters. This series however fell into three subplots which followed on from each other as we followed Nicky through the often Violen and very menacing Changes caused by the Stone.

I first watched this when I was 8 and I blame it for my tinfoil hat mentality today; I still won't have an electric cooker or kettle or a TV in the house! I bought the DVD and, if you are able to suspend disbelief in certain scenes, you will enjoy watching it again. Very much in the 'Survivors' mode, it would likely scare the pants off children today.