Luna (1983)★ 7.3/10
- Comedy
- Family
- Sci-Fi
Directed by: Chris Tookey, Micky Dolenz
Written by: Colin Bennett, Micky Dolenz, Colin Prockter
In 2040, the dimini female (teenage girl) 72 Batch 19Y and her misfit family in the Efficiecity, a completely enclosed bureaucratic city sealed off from the polluted and abandoned outside world.
- Original title
- Luna
- Storyline
- The show was about the domestic life of an eccentric family group set in the year 2040 - although in the setting, the characters are not in fact biologically related, but assigned to shared living quarters by the bureaucracy. Parts of the setting were decidedly dystopic; in the first episode, Luna is threatened with execution for having lost her citizen's identity card. A distinctive feature of the show was the language of "techno-talk", used by all of the characters, and described as an alternate version of English that had emerged to make it easier for computers to understand human speech. Techno-talk was characterised by the formation of new words from stems that already existed in regular spoken English.
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 30
- Companies
- Central Television
- Release dates
- GB January 22, 1983
- NZ February 12, 1986