Watt on Earth

I remember this, and it was one of my favourite lesser known CBBC programmes growing up! "Watt on Earth" was a sci-fi, sometimes comedic show, that ran for 2 series and 12 episodes, in 1991 and 1992 respectively. The show title is play on words, on the phrase "What on Earth?". Watt (Garth Napier Jones) is the alien character and centrepiece of the show, who can transform, or "transanimateobjectify" into any inanimate object. Although Watt is 300 years old, he is in his 20's, in human form. On Earth he builds a friendship with a boy named Sean Ruddock (Tom Brodie) and resides in his home, unbeknownst to the rest of the family. ...  Read the complete review

‘Watt on Earth’ was one of the more memorable children’s sci-fi dramas of the early 1990s, created and written by husband and wife team Pip and Jane Baker, whose previous work included four ‘Doctor Who’ serials from the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy eras as well as episodes of Gerry Anderson’s live-action series ‘Space: 1999.’ Based on the premise of an alien arriving on Earth and being kept safe and hidden by a young boy, it was similar to the ludicrously long-running ‘Mike and Angelo’ and the briefer, more educational ‘Earth Warp,’ with the latter show’s moralistic threat of the corrupt human army replaced with a more terrifying alien in a black car. The ...  Read the complete review