Topic: Old Australian Kids TV Show

I am trying to find out the name of an old live action show I used to watch in the 80s.

It involved a bunch of kids battling a conspiracy of shape shifting aliens intent on taking over the planet. The aliens could assume human form, but sometimes would exude a load of slime and turn into tentacled, slimy blobs that traveled underground by sliding around a network of tunnels etc.

I recall it was pretty scary (although that might have been more to do with my age).

Does anyone recall the show? Can anyone tell me what it was called? I would love to see some clips of it.

Re: Old Australian Kids TV Show

Under the mountain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202769/

Re: Old Australian Kids TV Show

Woot!! Thanks magnetic!

I knew r4r was the place to come for questions about pop culture ephemera!

Re: Old Australian Kids TV Show

That show was from New Zealand, for the record!
The hideous worm tunnels in it were supposed to be in Mount Eden (where I live, and where a shitty brostep act comes from too)

Re: Old Australian Kids TV Show

Check out this other lo-fi NZ sci-fi tv mini-series weirdness too...

Children of the Dogstar
Don't know if this ever made it out of NZ but it freaked me out as a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTn5UcA-b8o