A Boy Called Red
- by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes
- TV Episode
- Horror
- Families
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “A Boy Called Red” by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes (CBBC-TV, UK, 28 November 2017).
After his parents break up, Vincent visits his Dad’s childhood home where Auntie Jeanne encourages him to explore—without even putting that cursed well off limits, the very well where Dad lost his best friend back in the summer of ’85!
—Inmate Jan
When your dad was younger, he had a best friend, a boy called Red. Red disappeared down that well.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: A.J.’s childhood in the summer of 1985
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Vincent’s childhood circa 2017
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: Impossible to know what caused the electrically charged orb. Could it have been intentionally created by Auntie Jeanne?
- Themes
- Free Will, Fate, and Determinism: Is the well accident fated to happen or can it be changed?
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Vincent meets his dad as a kid.
- Save Your Family!: Vincent knows the trauma that his dad experienced when his best friend disappeared down the well.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “A Boy Called Red” by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes (CBBC-TV, UK, 28 November 2017).
Translations
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- Chinese (dubbed and subtitled).
Unknown series and episode titles by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes. - French (dubbed and subtitled).
Unknown series and episode titles by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes. - German (dubbed).
Unknown series and episode titles by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes. - Spanish (dubbed and subtitled).
Unknown series and episode titles by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes.