They Came From Outer Space to Become a Show's New Face

July 16, 2023 7:20 PM

[MLYT] In 1989, Australians John Thomson and Mark Shirrefs began planning a children's magazine series hosted by crash-landed aliens learning about Earth. Ten years later, they pitched it... as a children's sitcom ABOUT such a show, hosted by characters the network doesn't know are real alien schoolchildren. It went straight to series without even a pilot order, and got a second season. This is Kid's Breakfast... or rather, Pig's Breakfast.
posted by BiggerJ (4 comments total)

For the first few seconds of reading this post, I was 100% sure you were going to be talking about They Came From Outer Space, a one-season wonder that graced the syndicated airwaves when I was but a lad.

Pilot episode on YT
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:07 PM on July 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

I uh.... 3 minutes in I'm thinking - this lasted how many episodes?
So I scrolled.
And scrolled.
And scrolled.
Please tell me something uplifted them or gave a babelfish like universal translator or... something.
They didn't Teletubby this for all 70 episodes did they?
posted by symbioid at 10:37 PM on July 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

OK sorry - one last comment, just hit the bit where he's like "saw a ufo" and they're like "nice son - get to bed soon" or whatever and I kept thinking of Corey from Melbourne. And the Broadcaster how he was like trying to get the rabidly wild kid to "settle down". IDK. I'm high. I need sleep. Bye....
posted by symbioid at 10:38 PM on July 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

To anyone concerned by symbioid's first comment: don't worry. Babelization commences in Episode 1 at timestamp 3:07.
posted by BiggerJ at 1:06 AM on July 17, 2023 [1 favorite]