Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon

The third series of Jim Eldridge’s Children’s BBC drama ‘Uncle Jack’ is probably also the best, with a higher level of excitement, involvement and humour than before, although the series’ original environmental focus falls by the wayside in favour of a creepy science fiction plot that wouldn’t be out of place in ‘Doctor Who.’ Jack Green’s niece Kate writes to her uncle asking him to investigate mysterious goings-on at her boarding school in the fictional West Country town of Brimley-Crompton, where her friend Simon has been detained by the nurse under the suspicious story of a highly infectious disease (that the nurse seems oddly unaffected by). Also receiving a phone ...  Read the complete review