Watt on Earth is a novelisation of Season One of the television series.
Script Writers
Pip and Jane Baker
Television DetailsPip and Jane Baker
Season One
12 × 15 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
11/11/91 Part One
12/11/91 Part Two
18/11/91 Part Three
19/11/91 Part Four
25/11/91 Part Five
26/11/91 Part Six
02/12/91 Part Seven
03/12/91 Part Eight
09/12/91 Part Nine
10/12/91 Part Ten
16/12/91 Part Eleven
17/12/91 Part Twelve
Archive Details / DVD Releases
Neither season of Watt on Earth has ever been released.
Watt on Earth
Publisher BBC Books Format Paperback Publication Date 1991 ISBN 0-563-36255-3 Original Price UNKNOWN Country UK
General Notes
- Watt on Earth is a not-particularly-fondly remembered children's sci-fi TV series which ran for two seasons on BBC1 between 1992 and 1993, in which an alien named Watt comes to Earth and then spends most of his time causing complete chaos as he changes into different objects and tries to avoid another alien named Jemadah who is trying to capture him. Not to put too fine a point on it, Watt was a complete idiot (with back-to-front ears), and was hidden by young Sean and his family who happened to run the local newspaper.
- Watt on Earth was created by Pip and Jane Baker whose previous science fiction work included A Matter of Balance for Season Two of Space: 1999 (novelised by Michael Butterworth in The Space Jackers), and no less than three complete stories and an odd episode of Doctor Who.
Of the Doctor Who stories only 1985's Mark of the Rani deserves to be re-watched — the appalling Terror of the Vervoids from Season Twenty-Two and the worse Time and the Rani from Season Twenty-Three being amongst the lowest points in the programme's history.
All three stories were novelised by Pip and Jane Baker for Target Books, as well as The Ultimate Foe for which they had written the concluding episode.
