JIM-MORRISON-ALIKE BOY magician Tarot (MICHAEL MACKENZIE) has adventures through history, for which read cheap studio set representing pyramid, cheap studio set representing Stonehenge and so on. DR WHO-style menace on a budget. Fought enemies such as Madame Midnight, Mr Stabs and Mama Doc, aided by an owl called Ozymandias (played by FRED THE OWL). Tarot cards and tarot phenomena abounded; much worthy roustabouts ensued. Prog-heavy title theme babbling – “Jet white dove/Snow black snake/Time has turned his face/From the edge of mystery” – singularly failed to assault the charts.
ansonort
September 25, 2009 at 3:12 pm
One of the best kid-show theme songs ever written.
Dave
October 11, 2010 at 3:43 am
Seconded: also the summary completely misses how deeply subversive this stuff was to impressionable young minds – and we loved it. It was a small compensation for having missed the sixties and being about to be lumbered instead with the seventies.
KC
November 12, 2021 at 6:36 pm
I remember watching this when it was first transmitted. In many ways very typical kids stuff for the early 70s, but somehow it managed to be a bit different. It’s impossible to find anything on the internet about Michael Mackenzie; what else (if anything) did he do after this, and where is he now ?
Richardpd
January 2, 2024 at 10:48 pm
Sounds like a good programme, but it’s a shame HTV managed to wipe some of it.