Masters of Venus

This was made by the Children's Film Foundation, an organisation that made films and serials for Saturday Morning Cinema clubs. I was lucky enough to be able to go to a few when I were a lad but never saw this and so it is great that it has been remastered and released.

The plot is that a British scientist has built a rocket ship to go to Venus, but some people do their best to thwart the launch and what they find on Venus could be the end of civilisation as we know it – mwaaah!! To say any more could ruin the fun.

Now this is eight episodes long and they have left in all the end of show teasers for the next instalment, that you would see when you would be slurping your Kia Ora multi glow Orange drink. It is all god clean fun too and they always had a bit of education in them that some may find naive given the passage of time. I feel it has retained its charm and warmth and was a real joy to watch.