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General Chat => Film & TV => Topic started by: paulvonscott on 13 June, 2005, 03:47:54 AM

Title: Omega Factor the Caballistics TV series
Post by: paulvonscott on 13 June, 2005, 03:47:54 AM
Not really, but it is a government dept dealing with the supernatural.  I've had a novelisation kicking around for a while, but never read it and always wondered if the series was any good.

I know there are a few old gits about here, so, does anyone remember it?  If I get some library wages I might give it a punt.

Link: Omega on Play.com

Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: Smiley on 13 June, 2005, 04:06:56 AM
Only vaguely. I remember the opening titles, that James Hazeldine was in it and there was some laboratory doings on the obligatory "remote Scottish/Cornish isle" (second only to the gravel pit in Brit SF TV).

Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: paulvonscott on 13 June, 2005, 04:21:03 AM
Sold!  Heh, I LIKE the remote Scottish/Cornish isle setting.

Anyone with more details?

It's great every last damn Brit SF series is being unearthed thanks to DVD.
Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: Art on 13 June, 2005, 07:41:31 AM
Man, i hope that remote Isle also has a ruined castle and some underwater caves abandoned by smuggers, overwise it's crap.
Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: Smiley on 13 June, 2005, 03:35:27 PM
It's kind of like Craggy Island but with all the genre stuff going on, with the beaches full of toxic barrels, landmines, barbed wire, cyborg submariners bumping into forgotten reptilian overlords (both running away from the giant crabs), fishing villages packed with furtive deformed locals and pyromaniac morris dancers, caves full of gunpowder, lost pirates and troglodytes, spooky stone circles and a castle with a Fourth Reich radar installation in it...
Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: Banners on 13 June, 2005, 03:43:38 PM
...and some underwater caves abandoned by smuggers...

"Smuggers"?

Gangs of youths who ambush the unwary and then proceed to tell them how fantastic their own lives are comapred to their victims'?

;-)

M@
Title: Re: Omega Factor the Caballistics ...
Post by: Conexus on 13 June, 2005, 04:03:38 PM
LOL, seriously- can't really explain why, just LOL