I remember watching this when it was broadcast in 1963. It must have been good because it has stuck with me all these years.
Unaccountably, the entire population of an English town are put into a trance - all that is except those that were not watching television at a certain time. This small group try to investigate how the TV somehow caused this to happen.
The mystery develops and at one point it is thought to be an enemy invasion but slowly it emerges that beings from the future are sending pulses via the TV but why?
I no longer know the full explanation but I can remember that at the end we get to see a vision of the future that these beings live in. It is a barren misty world with glass domes spaced across the landscape at regular intervals. In each dome, floating like a pickled museum specimen is the creature of the future, fat, hairless and pasty barely human blobs. I was terrified!
Unaccountably, the entire population of an English town are put into a trance - all that is except those that were not watching television at a certain time. This small group try to investigate how the TV somehow caused this to happen.
The mystery develops and at one point it is thought to be an enemy invasion but slowly it emerges that beings from the future are sending pulses via the TV but why?
I no longer know the full explanation but I can remember that at the end we get to see a vision of the future that these beings live in. It is a barren misty world with glass domes spaced across the landscape at regular intervals. In each dome, floating like a pickled museum specimen is the creature of the future, fat, hairless and pasty barely human blobs. I was terrified!
