I first watched this when I was 13 and I thought it was brilliant. This show sparked an interest in me, which I still have to this day, for ancient momuments in Britain.

In 1977 HTV launched the revolutionary children’s television drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who arrive in the village of Milbury to study ancient stones. The residents greet each other with the phrase ‘Happy day’ and the community is held in a strange captivity by the psychic forces, generated by the circle of giant Neolithic stones, which surround it. Filmed at Avebury in Wiltshire, it is a strangely atmospheric production with the baleful, discordant wailing voices of the incidental music, increasing the tension. This item is a replica of Dai the poacher’s winged serpent, palm sized amulet which was supposedly for protection.

There were seven episodes:

1. Into the Circle (TX: 10 January 1977)
2. Circle of Fear (TX: 17 January 1977)
3. Serpent in the Circle (TX: 24 January 1977)
4. Narrowing Circle (TX: 31 January 1977)
5. Charmed Circle (TX: 7 February 1977)
6. Squaring the Circle (TX: 14 February 1977)
7. Full Circle (TX: 21 February 1977)