Country of origin United Kingdom Original network BBC One | Running time 20 minutes | |
Based on The Intergalactic Kitchen
by Frank Rogers Starring Lloyd Baillie
Linzi Campbell
Luke Mackle
Tamara Kennedy No. of episodes 13 x 20 minute episodes | ||
Intergalactic Kitchen is a CBBC television series, based on the novel The Intergalactic Kitchen by Frank Rogers. It ran from January to April 2004.
Contents
The show had a distinct reality to it, with the normal themes (romance, adventures).
Plot
The show is about the Bird children (Robin, Snoo and Jay), their mother and Fleur, a rival from Snoo and Jay's school. They are about to go camping, when Mrs. Bird accidentally activates a force field, and are shot off into outer space. They attempt to try to get back to earth, when a family of four aliens arrive in the Kitchen. Then everything goes wrong, when Mrs. Bird accidentally climbs into the alien's spaceship, and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx accidentally activate the engines, thus separating Mrs. Bird's children and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx's children. This has, both the kids and the adults, on a series of mad adventures.
Trivia
The role of Mr Krryptyx was originally filled by Gavin Mitchell, who filmed one day on set before leaving the production, whereupon Mark McDonnell was drafted in to replace him. McDonnell and Mitchell had previously worked with the show's producer on a highly successful short film, Cry For Bobo. Mitchell and McDonnell had also worked together on the series "Revolver" and "Velvet Soup".
This series was filmed in the rebuilt Maryhill Studio complex in Glasgow which had been used to film many of the Comedy Unit productions before it burned down on 22 April 2001. Since rebuilding, the studio has been used to house the sets for "Balamory" and other productions.