Quicksand Fans

HI

Been on the look out for this for some time. Here are a few caps from a British 1970's children's film called "Kadoyng".

A group of kids, with the help of an alien visitor, stop a motorway being built across their playing fields, by turning the whole area into... well, you know what!

At the ceremony to open the site, all the politicians cut the ribbon, then descend and disappear. Although, as it's a film for little kids, not to their doom. (I saw this film at a school showing when I was about seven, and we were all encouraged to laugh at the sinking.) The policeman at least is safe and sound in the next scene.

This is quite a good set-up, and must have taken a bit of ingenuity, as they probably didn't have much money to spend on these.

Hope you all enjoy.

Last of the caps.

Tim wrote:At the ceremony to open the site, all the politicians cut the ribbon, then descend and disappear. Although, as it's a film for little kids, not to their doom.

Did the vanished parties appear again at the end of the episode, recovered by the alien after learning their lessons?

Thanks for sharing this, BTW, and perhaps eventually we can see the entire scene in video.

This is very cool! Thanks for this.

I remember the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used to run these great British and European kids adventure series and movies on Saturday mornings in the 1970s, and they were uniformly excellent.

One story involved the bad guys getting sunk in a bog up to their shoulders while trying to escape. I think it had something to do with motocross... What I mainly remember about it is the warning sign "Boggy Ground" nearby, in case we missed a plot point...

For years, I always thought the sign read "Body Ground" and thought maybe it was a British term for quicksand.

PM2K wrote:One story involved the bad guys getting sunk in a bog up to their shoulders while trying to escape. I think it had something to do with motocross... What I mainly remember about it is the warning sign "Boggy Ground" nearby, in case we missed a plot point...

I remember that! So long ago. The baddies sailed past the sign on their motorbikes. Next thing, we hear them screaming for help. There they are, floundering. The good guys laughed as the authorities rescued them.

Anyone have the name of the show?

QuicksandMania wrote:

PM2K wrote:One story involved the bad guys getting sunk in a bog up to their shoulders while trying to escape. I think it had something to do with motocross... What I mainly remember about it is the warning sign "Boggy Ground" nearby, in case we missed a plot point...

I remember that! So long ago. The baddies sailed past the sign on their motorbikes. Next thing, we hear them screaming for help. There they are, floundering. The good guys laughed as the authorities rescued them.

Anyone have the name of the show?

I can't recall at all... it may have been Dangergrass Moor or something like that...