Watt on Earth

Infobox Television
show_name = Watt on Earth


caption =
genre = Fantasy/Children's TV
creator = Pip Baker
Jane Baker
writer = Pip Baker
Jane Baker
director = Roger Singleton-Turner
starring = Garth Napier Jones
Tom Brodie
Jessica Simpson
Heather Wright
Simon Cook
country = United Kingdom
language = English
num_seasons = 2
num_episodes = 24
producer = Angela Beeching
location = United Kingdom
runtime = 15 minutes
channel = BBC One
first_run = United Kingdom
first_aired = 11 November 1991
last_aired = 23 December 1992
imdb_id = 0199285
tv_com_id =

"Watt on Earth" is a children's television series that ran for two 12-episode seasons, shown as part of Children's BBC. It was written by the Doctor Who writers Pip and Jane Baker.

Premise

The show centres around the titular character Watt; an extra terrestrial with, by human standards, an odd taste in food, and the ability to transanimateobjectify. He comes to Earth to flee his evil uncle: Watt is heir to the throne on his home planet, and his uncle had sent his top henchman Jemadah to follow and kill Watt. While Watt is over 300 years of age, he appears to be a human in his early twenties.

Watt lands in the English town of Haxton, where he becomes friends with Sean Ruddock (played by Tom Brodie). Sean keeps Watt's presence in the house a secret throughout the series.

When they first meet, Watt is disguised as an apple with two stalks. Every episode features Watt transanimateobjectifiying into a different inanimate object, each time with an error. Watt himself has back-to-front ears in the first series, and green ears in the second. The first series ends with Watt losing the ability to transanimateobjectify, and in trying to regain the ability, he passes through each of the transformations in the previous eleven episodes.

Sean's parents are in charge of the local newspaper, "The Haxton Weekly", and think their son is odd. Sean's sister, Zoë, is suspicious of his behaviour, and comes close to seeing Watt on many occasions. In the final episode of series two, she finally works out who Watt is, and turns him in to Jemadah.

Cast

*Watt - Garth Napier Jones
*Sean Ruddock - Tom Brodie
*Jemadah - Greenwood Morris, John Grillo, Isabelle Lucas
*Voice of Watt's Uncle - Michael Kilgarriff
*Zoë Ruddock - Jessica Simpson
*Tom Ruddock - Simon Cook
*Val Ruddock - Heather Wright
*Jonah - Andrew Henry
*Kate - Laura McMahon
*Lucy - Alex Staden

Crew

*Pip Baker - Writer
*Jane Baker - Writer
*Roger Singleton-Turner - Director
*Angela Beeching - Producer
*Richard Attree - Composer

Production

*Episode length: 15 minutes
*Series One (12 episodes), 11 November - 17 December 1991, BBC One Mondays & Tuesdays
*Series Two (12 episodes), 16 November - 23 December 1992, BBC One Mondays & Wednesdays

External links

*imdb title|0199285