The Galactic Garden (1985)

The Galactic Garden was a 1985 British television drama produced by BBC Bristol with a science fiction theme. A pair of space travellers arrive on Earth to study the planet's lifeforms, landing in an English garden. However, on Earth they are about three quarters of an inch tall and therefore find themselves encountering its natural and giant indigenous life, such as worms, spiders, goldfish and a tortoise. A drama documentary on natural history with a science fiction twist.

The Radio Times listings for January 2, 1985 said:

A spectacular science-fiction adventure set among the wildlife of a garden by Andrew Sachs and John Downer with Visitors from the artificial planet Orbito return through time to the Earth of today. They have a problem - they are less than an inch tall. Seen from their tiny viewpoint, it's a world of creatures of horrifying proportions, where giant spiders weave terrible traps, earwigs tend golden eggs and even the garden tortoise provides an unconventional ride. Orbito's historian, the hapless Vektor, finds his knowledge of Earth sadly lacking as he and Plasmid explore a world in which the gardener's casual actions can have catastrophic effects...

The credits in the listing seems to suggest the garden featured in the film might have belonged to Andrew Sachs.


The Galactic Garden was repeated on March 31, 1986.

Notable cast & crew


BBC One

Christian Rodska

Elizabeth Parker

First shown in 1985

GB

Produced by BBC

SciFi

Steve Brownsey

TV film