Part 5 of 6 of the 1996 kids' series. Ben's dad knows about the gang's plan, but decides not to say anything. And he proves invaluable to them when they finally put their prank into action on Sidebottom the following night, only for things to go awry. However the prank pays off and soon reporters are swarming over the Sidebottom household, with Mr Sidebottom convinced he has been visited by aliens. But the boys' actions have unforeseen consequences.
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00:00plain milk or white chocolate sir choices choices choices I think a level
00:09three certainly sir well last week was a bit hectic for agent Zed first there was
00:19this and then there was this
00:49and finally there was this dad yeah dad nice of you to drop in thank you Finley but
01:14the one thing we hadn't thought of was this
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02:26began. Great. Still, it's not all bleak. A band of high pressure moving in from the west means that
02:35warmer, drier weather is on its way. When? But not for some hours yet. What are we going to do?
02:45Cross our fingers and hope it stops. I've got it. We could do a sun dance. I saw her once in a cowboy
02:49film. Shut up, Jenks. Come on, let's check through the equipment.
02:56Lights. Check. Tape recorder. Check. Balloon and helium cylinder. Check. Check. Smoke machine. Check.
03:07Alien message. Alien message. You had it last. You haven't lost it. No, I haven't lost you. Lost it.
03:17Someone. Told you. Yeah, yeah. Well, thanks about it then. You haven't mentioned the most
03:29important thing of all.
03:51Okay, men. Attention!
03:53Attention! What's he talking about?
04:05Okay, men. Stand easy. In a very few hours, we're going to pull off the biggest stunt in the history
04:11of Agent Z. If it all goes according to plan, we're going to eat every headline in the country.
04:17If, however, it goes wrong... Which it won't, sir? Which it won't, but if it all blows up in our faces,
04:24I want you to know that I have nothing but respect for every last man jack of you.
04:29I am proud to have known you.
04:30I am proud to have known you.
04:32Preachers, raisins, it. And the penguin for more.
04:35Pip-hip! Hooray! Hooray!
04:36Hooray! Pip-hip! Hooray!
04:37Hooray! Hooray!
04:38Pip-hip! Hooray!
04:39Hooray! Hooray!
04:40Hooray!
04:41Hooray!
04:42Are we all clear?
04:44Ben?
04:45Hit him, Jenks.
04:47Are we all clear about tonight?
04:49We'll meet him and the cops behind Sidebottoms House 0045.
04:53Why can't you use proper time?
04:54Quarter to one, Jenks time.
04:56Thanks.
04:57Good.
04:58Dismissed.
05:03Don't pick, Ben.
05:05Sorry.
05:06Aren't you hungry?
05:08Not really.
05:09Trauma.
05:10I forgot to set the video.
05:16It stopped raining.
05:18Yeah.
05:22Relax, Ben.
05:23It's not just your neck on the line, you know.
05:26It's not just me, you know.
05:56It's not just sin.
05:58All the corners.
05:59Newman's Ellen.
06:00The Wi-Fi world is lost during the banjo's days.
06:02It's about no SG.
06:03Oh, my God.
06:21Watch it! Sorry!
06:23Idiot!
06:24Get your voices down!
06:26OK, got all the gear.
06:27Yep.
06:28Right, let's go.
06:33And you're sure Dennis is in there?
06:36Definitely. Same time every night.
06:48Oh.
06:50Oh.
06:51Oh.
06:52Oh.
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06:58Oh.
06:59Oh.
07:00Oh.
07:01Oh.
07:02Oh.
07:03Oh.
07:04Beautiful.
07:07Ready?
07:08Ready.
07:09Ready.
07:10Looks like this is it then.
07:11Operation Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars.
07:13Let's take this guy out.
07:15Jinx, start the smoke.
07:21OK, Ben.
07:22You're on your own.
07:33Come on.
07:34Commence, please.
07:35Come on, Dennis.
07:36Look.
07:39Yes.
07:40Come on, Dennis.
07:41Look.
07:46Yes.
07:47Come on, Dennis. Look!
07:58Yes!
08:17He's coming!
08:21OK, Jenks. Hit the line.
08:30Watch out!
08:32Shut up!
08:34It'll ruin everything. Can you see anything, Jenks?
08:37No!
08:39Come on, Dennis. Come on.
08:47The hammerhouse of horror or what?
08:58Shh! Jenks!
09:00Yeah?
09:01Feel the balloon. Go on.
09:03Where's the meteorite?
09:05In my pocket.
09:14There he is! I can see him!
09:17Let the penguin go!
09:47My name is Dennis Sidebottom. I mean you no harm.
09:54Yes! It's working! Look at his face!
09:58This is perfect!
09:59Oh, we're going to play.
10:00Ah!
10:01Shh!
10:02Jen!
10:03Grab him!
10:04Grab him!
10:11Get me down, please! Get me down!
10:13I'm trying! I'm trying!
10:14Ah!
10:15Ah!
10:16Ah!
10:17Ah!
10:18Ah!
10:19Come on!
10:20Get me down!
10:21Ah!
10:22Ollie!
10:23What are you doing, you stupid idiot?
10:24I'm trying to get the mid to your eyes.
10:25Never mind, not get us down!
10:26No!
10:27No!
10:28Stuck.
10:29Stuck.
10:30Stuck!
10:31Gotcha!
10:32Ah!
10:33Arrrgh!
10:34Ah!
10:35Ah!
10:36Ah!
10:37Ah!
10:39Ah!
10:40Ah!
10:41Ah!
10:42Ah!
10:43Ah!
10:44Ah!
10:45Ah!
10:46Ah!
10:47I've got you!
10:57Pick it up, you gormous half-wit! Pick it up!
11:00I'm too young to die! Come on!
11:12Come on, let's get the stuff.
11:17Oh, we did it! Yes!
11:29Dennis didn't pick up the meteorite!
11:31Don't worry, someone will. It's OK.
11:33Uh-oh. What?
11:34Where's the penguin?
11:36Oh, no.
11:41Hang on. Who's that?
11:43Dad?
11:44That's done it.
11:46Shh! Listen!
11:48Dennis!
11:50Dennis!
11:52There's a...
11:54It's a...
11:55No, Dennis! Stop!
12:00Come here! Look at this!
12:02He's found the meteorite!
12:12Good old Dad! Barney, go get the penguin!
12:14You must be joking!
12:15Just do it while Dad's got Dennis distracted. It'll be all right!
12:18Jenks, you hide the rest of the stuff. We'll come back for it tomorrow.
12:21What about you? Where are you going?
12:23If Dad's up, then Mum's up. If Mum's up, it won't be long before she's going into my room. Get it?
12:27Got it.
12:28Good. See you tomorrow.
12:29Sorry, love. I didn't mean to wake you.
12:44What's up?
12:45What's up?
12:46Don't worry. It's your idiot father. He's gone. Walk him out.
12:49What a funny noise. Like...
12:51You go back to sleep. I'll drag him down.
12:54We did it! We did it! Yes! Yes! Go!
13:12Excuse me. I think this might be yours.
13:15Where do you get that?
13:16I found it.
13:17Oh, yeah.
13:18Yeah.
13:19The only thing you're going to find is yourself in a juvenile court.
13:24Oi! Get off! Get off!
13:26This is harassment! Get off!
13:28What's he done?
13:29Nothing. I was just returning this penguin I found and this gorilla started threatening me.
13:33We'll see you as a gorilla.
13:35Oh, get off, you big bully.
13:36You found this?
13:38Yeah, I recognised it from this place, so I thought I'd better bring it back.
13:41Let him go.
13:43Clear off!
13:44Let him go, or I'll call the police. And have you done this?
13:49Oh, no!
13:50Oh, no!
13:51Oh, no!
14:00All right. Show's over. Break it up.
14:07What if Dennis throws the meeting away?
14:09He won't throw it away.
14:10He might.
14:11We've got to make sure he knows it's an alien message.
14:13Can't you go round and say your dad told you...
14:15No, jinx.
14:16We've got to let him work it out for himself.
14:18Remember, we've got nothing to do with this.
14:20Yeah, but...
14:21Look, it's out of our hands now.
14:23Either side-button falls for it or he doesn't.
14:25So...
14:26But, I mean...
14:27Oh, I think he's trying to communicate, Doctor.
14:30So, like, we've just got to sit here and wait.
14:33Oh, oh, it was amazing.
14:35Baggio took it on the right wing and wham!
14:37Blew the Brazilian defence apart.
14:38Oh!
14:41Watch, you guys.
14:44Look, I know we're not meant to be talking now,
14:45but I've just got to tell you,
14:46this incredible thing happened last night.
14:48Oh, don't tell me.
14:49Your mother turned into a large blue chicken
14:50and started juggling the furniture.
14:52Oh, don't be stupid.
14:53Well?
14:54It was about one in the morning.
14:55Dad was out on the observatory looking up at the stars
14:57and he heard this really weird noise out in the park.
14:59So, he went out to have a look and he was petrified.
15:05I mean, really petrified.
15:06What does he mean?
15:07He means really petrified.
15:09And there was all this, like, smoke and unbelievably bright light.
15:12And then, coming out of the smoke, he saw this alien creature.
15:16This is fantastic.
15:17What does it look like?
15:19Well, it was about three feet tall and he was wearing a sort of silvery metallic thing
15:23and it had like a beak and flipper things.
15:25So, you're telling us that your dad goes into the park at one in the morning
15:30and sees some kind of penguin dressed in tin foil?
15:33Yeah.
15:34I know it sounds weird.
15:35Not at all.
15:36No.
15:37Has your dad been acting normally lately?
15:39Oh, look.
15:40I mean, you haven't caught him running around the house wearing his wife rants on his head
15:44singing, I'll do it my way, have you?
15:46Okay.
15:47If you don't want to know, then fine.
15:48But you just wait.
15:49This is going to be the biggest thing since Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin landed on the moon.
15:54Edwin.
15:55What?
15:56It was Edwin.
15:57Edwin Buzz Aldrin.
15:58Don't you know anything?
16:03And now a story of a close encounter of an alien kind.
16:08Giles Mawinney reports.
16:10Mum, look.
16:12Crane Grove is not the sort of place you'd expect to find UFO sightings.
16:16But Dennis Sidebottom believes otherwise.
16:18Mr Sidebottom, can you tell us what it was you saw?
16:21What it was I saw was a very bright white light and a deep roaring noise.
16:26On further investigation, I discovered that the noise and the light were emanating from the park behind my house.
16:32Over in the direction of the copse.
16:34The whole area was filled with smoke.
16:37I then saw a huge silver sphere hovering and emerging from the smoke a figure.
16:44Did you manage to take any photographs?
16:46No, I did not manage to take any photographs.
16:48But the light was good enough for me to tell that the figure was about three foot tall and dressed in a silvery material.
16:55Briefly, what about this piece of stone that you found?
16:58The piece of stone that I found was in the shape of a disc with strange symbols engraved upon it.
17:04Do you still have it?
17:05No, I do not still have it.
17:07It's been sent for tests.
17:09Thank you very much, Mr Sidebottom.
17:11Sue.
17:14Cricket and...
17:16Very strange.
17:18Extraordinary.
17:19Amazing.
17:20Oh, it is amazing.
17:21Isn't it, Ben?
17:22I mean, why should they choose to visit Dennis Sidebottom, of all people?
17:26Probably after his system.
17:28Aliens win lottery.
17:30That would make a good story.
17:31I know you two don't like the man, but you could show some compassion.
17:35Look, I'm not a member of the Sidebottom fan club, but he's obviously a very sick man.
17:41Well, maybe not.
17:42I mean, maybe that piece of rock bears a message of vital importance for the planet.
17:47What, like Elvis lives?
17:48Yeah, to be like that.
17:49I think you two have been doing too much bonding for your own good.
17:58Thanks, Dad.
18:00What for?
18:02You got us out of a sticky situation the other night.
18:05I don't know what you're talking about, Ben.
18:07And at the European Swimming Championships in Vienna, 19-year-old Graham...
18:17So what happens next?
18:18Oh, we let Dennis dig himself a bit deeper.
18:21Then we blow his story sky high.
18:24Hello, boys.
18:26You look guilty.
18:27I bet you've done something really wicked.
18:29No.
18:30They're pretty amazing, all the stuff about your dad and this alien.
18:34If you believe that sort of thing.
18:35He's a pretty level-headed bloke, your dad.
18:37And he knows a bit about space and stuff.
18:39Personally, I think he's gone completely tonto.
18:42I don't believe this.
18:43Dennis!
18:44Someone on the phone for you.
18:45Not now, Pat.
18:46Yes, Dennis.
18:47Now.
18:48Yes, Dennis.
18:49Now.
18:50Yes.
18:51Yes, Dennis.
18:52Now.
18:53Yes, Dennis.
18:54Now.
18:55Yes.
18:56Yes, Dennis.
18:57Now.
18:58Yes.
18:59Oh, I don't believe this.
19:06Dennis, someone on the phone for you.
19:08Not now, Pat.
19:09Yes, Dennis, now.
19:14Yes.
19:18Yes.
19:22And that's definite, is it?
19:27Thank you very much.
19:29Well?
19:32It's real.
19:34Are they sure?
19:35They're scientists, Patricia.
19:37Of course they're sure.
19:38What exactly did they say?
19:42They said.
19:44Tests carried out on Mr Sidebottom's rock
19:46prove that the material is almost certainly not
19:49from a planet inside our solar system.
19:51One NASA scientist is quoted as saying,
19:55This is going to be the biggest thing,
19:57since Neil Armstrong and Edward Elgin landed on the moon.
20:00Transport room, feed me up.
20:05Alien visitation claim verified.
20:08Take me to your lead arm.
20:11It came from planet Z.
20:13This is big time.
20:21We couldn't have got this much attention if we blow up the town hall with gelatine.
20:38Are we geniuses or are we geniuses?
20:42We're geniuses.
20:45Yo!
20:46Right, to business.
20:48You've got to strike while the iron's hot.
20:50And how hot do you think it is now, Ben?
20:52Red hot?
20:52White hot?
20:53Or melting point?
20:54I'd say it's just about melting.
20:57Right, let's go for it.
21:00What iron?
21:01Hello.
21:02Hello.
21:17Excuse me, can we have a word?
21:19I haven't got to the space octopus on level nine yet.
21:21Ben, we've got a story for you.
21:23Really?
21:24Yeah.
21:25In fact, you could say we've got the story for you.
21:29Right.
21:30This better be good.
21:31Fire away.
21:34Do you know what this is?
21:36Yes, of course I do.
21:38Everyone in the country knows what that is.
21:39I wrote it.
21:41Well, yes, I can see that.
21:42No, no, he wrote it.
21:44I made it up.
21:45We made it up.
21:47Squares are twos, the triangles are ones, and the circles are zeros.
21:49It's quite simple.
21:51What is it with you people?
21:54Sorry?
21:54In the past three days, I've had about 47 people telling me they've got the story.
22:00One bloke told me he'd engraved the message.
22:03Another loony who calls himself Bouncy Bill said that the flying saucer was actually a great big balloon.
22:08And this morning, I had a fax from some American calling himself Alvin P. Newt, saying he sells meteorites.
22:15Yeah, yeah, Alvin P. Newt, he sold us the meteorites.
22:17And Bouncy Bill lent us the balloon.
22:19Don't you see it all fits together?
22:21I've also had an old lady who says that the message reads, greetings from Gamma Centauri.
22:25Do not expand the M25 near Slough.
22:29I've had a retired postman who says he's been talking to aliens on his shortwave rate over the past five years.
22:34And some wrinkled old hippie reckons that aliens are trying to tell us that Crane Grove is the true sight of King Arthur's camelot.
22:41Now, I am not going to hang around listening to you lot spinning me another ludicrous yarn.
22:50Nice try.
22:53Ah, quite. Now what?
22:57I think, gentlemen, we're in schtuck.
22:59Hey, guess what? Dad's made £25,000 from interviews and stuff.
23:05And they're going to drive us down to London to be on breakfast TV.
23:08You see, unlike you wallies, the rest of the world is actually interested in what went on the other night.
23:14Todd, why don't you just go and...
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