UGLY LITTLE BOY - ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE (1977) 

I saw this in my 7th grade class...40 YEARS ago...!!!!! It stayed with me to this day and I could not remember the name. Thought I would never see it again!!!!!

I was in as soon as that synthesizer music started up.

Ah what a gem, good find Retrontario.

Watched this with my mom she told me this isn’t science fiction its a documentary of her early life as a mother looking after me and my brother.

I see what you did there, Retrontario... Very clever! Also very sad that the building will never operate as-is ever again... Just as sad as when Scarborough's TTC Line 3 went down...

Star of the show …Mini Moog

The synth score is so epic.

Kate Reid also played a doctor in the movie Andromeda Strain, which in a way gives a similar vibe.

A classic moment from tv past! I believe I saw this in school as well. A great stiry, and great acting. That synth score is haunting.

From a short story by Isaac Asimov. Didn't know it had ever been filmed. Loved the story, though. I've read it many times. It was in a collection I loved that was in our high school library called Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Asimov.

This is the most potent, concentrated distillate of seventies Canadiana I've ever seen. When you see them wheeling out the OCR font, you know you're in for a good time.

Watch this in CBC on my 5th Grade Class in 1986 on TV. Re-watched this many times on 16mm film that I borrowed from the library and rented their projector in 1988. It was magical watching on a large screen projector in 1988. Has been my favourite short film up to the 1999.

I grew up in the 70s. I miss those days watching good tv like this. TV was always about doing the right thing.

Barry Morse from The Fugitive and Space 1999.

Save the Science Centre

It’s the Actress from “The Andromeda Strain”!!!!

I remember beaming in my own Neanderthal at the Ontario Science Center in 1982. His name was Kek and I kept him in the shed eating hamburger helper until Mom found him. Boy was she mad.

I remember when he had the hissy fit with the bottles

Man I feel old .I remember this when I was a kid.

I dont remember seeing that exhibit when I went ad a kid. Lmao

The writer & producer, Don Thompson, was my mom's cousin.

Little Dracula from Hilarious House of Frightenstein plays the Ugly Boy

I literally just shit myself and jumped out of my seat when I saw that the little guy. It hit me like a ton of bricks! OMG!! Holy shit! I remember this! LOL

A great story, thanks for uploading this!

First time seeing this...really liked it. The nurse and the Neanderthal boy really actually favored each other for real....

I read Asimov's short story years ago. If I recall correctly, they built a little house inside the stasis bubble for the kid, and popping the bubble was a "gross mechanical action" facilitated by running a rope from a lever at the center of the house to the outside. The nurse simply reached up and pulled the rope. She cost that company a fortune in energy.

is that the guy who played the mini dracula opposite of Billy Van in Hilarious House of Frightenstein? a few shots it looks like him

I’m going through a lot so I couldn’t finish this right now, getting a bit emotional for me. But I like this video because it resonates with what happened to me when I had a 3% chance of living , and had pneumonia, in the hospital as a baby.

It was a co-production with a British company. There were six episodes in all, although this was the only science fiction one. One of the others was a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. There was an accompanying textbook, with all of the scripts in them. I still have my copy. This film the only 16 mm print I own, I have fond memories in high school English classes back in 1982.

Wow, this is a first for me. Never heard of this at all...then again I was born in 81 so. I love this stuff though - such a different time. Thanks for posting it.

Paul Williams in one of his lesser known roles.

I remember watching this in school and afterward we referred to her as The Ugly Little Nurse. Uncharitable, I know.

That little boy grew up to be the premier of Ontario.

Starring Guy BIG, with music by Patricia Cullen?! Damn, that ending hit hard 😭

Classic!

That little bastard is probably still living in there!

Blame the Ford government for shutting down the Ontario Science Centre.

If it wasn’t for this type of entertainment short people would not be I show business

Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.

This was actually really good!

Retro Ontario indeed - with Moriyama's iconic OSC building now doomed (due in no small part to various acts of provincial neglect), such documents may be all we have by which to remember it. The OSC should have been protected as a heritage building; people's ignorance of the cultural/historical importance of 'brutalism', techno-futurism and megastructuralism ("They're cold and ugly...I feel so diminished...so alienated..." Oh, f-in' please! And who ever felt alienated in the OSC? - it was fabulous! - Moriyama understood the dramaturgical potential of the site AND the theatrical experience of science) is not an excuse for letting such buildings - foundational to Canada's emergence as a middle power after the war - crumble because, to quote the enlightened mind of Premier Ford, '[They've] had [their] day". Nor should the chic, if usually apt, urbanism of Jane Jacobs, Charles Montgomery et al. ('Buildings must die...") be precipitately misapprehended in its application to revision of cities. What's next? Scarborough College? (U of T, Scarborough). Maybe the OGA was on to something..."If we false-front the Gallery with a Starchitect retro fit maybe the no-nothings will keep their hands off!"

The cave baby is played by a young Nelson Van Alden.. He was later on "Boardwalk Empire"....he never lost his trademark looks 🤔😲🤪

Very cool!

18:50 When it's past noon and I don't gots my Timmies in me.

My wife and I both burst into tears the first time Timmy called the nurse "mama" 😭 OMG ❤💔

I remember seeing this in school

For decades I have been trying to remember more about this creepy movie. I only remember a few scenes and have been trying to find any clue as to what it was since I saw it in the 70's. Just saw the video show up today and this was it. I remember it being disturbing and yep, it's just like I remember...

Either First Choice or Superchannel aired this as well. I remember the "Classics Dark and Dangerous" anthology series popping up on the CBC (Saturday nights I recall). It was a mostly British production; the only other episode I did manage to see was "The Rocking Horse Winner".

Ontario Science Centre still has that oddly-futuristic look to it

OMG I remember this when I was a kid close to 50 years ago!! We watched it at my elementary school. Wow this is amazing!

Good description

3:15 nicky guadagni, who played dr helen holloway in 1997's "cube"

Truly a Canadian Vignette.

Ooh, I love my ugly boy So rough and tough Don't care about anything but me Yes, I just love him 'cause he's so crazy Just crazy about me

I don't know how many times I read this story - it's appeared in many anthologies over the years. I never saw this, though.

exquisite

what the hell

They didn’t want the Science Centre to last, why they didn’t spend on the maintenance. It doesn’t just happen by accident 😂

So this is where Tim and Eric got inspiration for DeeVee.

Thanks. This story asks a simple question: " who are the real savages here?".

Holy fuckin fever dream!

Any holiday streams coming up in the future? wish you had a schedule

16:19 "I am Mu Lambda 165. May I be of...assistance?"...william osler from "starlost"

[13:49] Did this actress appear as "Mrs. Mac" in 'Black Christmas'? This cast is wonderful.

I might have watched too much Science Alliance but the woman at 3:15 looks like one of the hosts. Also the woman examiner at 9:25 had a small part in Overdrawn At The Memory Bank and she may have even appeared on Polkadot Door *memory hazy*. Thanks, Retrontario!

XOXO best era

ontario knows how to rock !

Hmmmm....bring a neandrethal to the present timeline and send him back along with someone/something from the present? Sounds like the butterfly effect could be upon them all. This was actually not bad.

WOWWWWWWW... took me right back to the first time watching this (1980 or so) after reading the short story as a teenager. Thanks For These Memories 👍🏾🙏🏾👊🏾

MST3K...

Looks like a depilated Chaka from Land of the Lost

Guess she will be seeing what mammoths are like.

so did it really send them back or just evaporate them?

Music is the deal

What the.....!? I know this is the science center but what did my eyeballs just see? Maybe the most bizarre seventies-licious thing ever!!! Lol..

She looks like late 50s not early 40s.

kate reid was a marvelous actress

In a different way, the ending reminds me of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. They would give everything for the person they love, or nothing matters.

...Naaa.... That is just how all of us kids looked in the late 70's and early 80's.

Kate Reid, Barry Morse..?? and he's directing? And that's the guy who played the computer from StarLost.. Wait! This is the movie I've been searching for. The lighting is balls, but otherwise... excellent

They rushed the casting without reading script. The nurse looks at least 62 but the story says she is 42.

Tracking, tracking....TRACKING dammit!

When did that guy make fleet commander.

There is no way in hell that lady is 42!

5:04 42! This is why older, successful men date younger. I mean...

Gonna tell my kids this is Harry and the Hendersons

Is this the star wars holiday special?

Is there a sequel? I need to know what happened! Did she go back and have other children with the tribe? Could her actions have changed the course of modern history?! Or did they returns back in time as one giant blob of Neanderthal and human combined?

16:56, what did ya do to that poor guy's chicken finger?

Bull If someone from today when back to tha time how long would they survive

Es boy bagfoots???

so where the hell did she go to. They r all old by now.

Ligotti jazz is not a form.

Sad how Morse always portrays a heartless creep in all of his roles with a bit of jerk thrown in.

Ahh back when the government of Ontario actually funded the Ontario Science Centre properly.....

As someone who has strong feelings against graves being disturbed for science, this evoked some strong emotion from me. Glad I took the time to watch it. I’m not a religious or spiritual person, but can we not leave the dead in peace?

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OK. Abducting a Neanderthal child from the past seems like a really bad idea for any number of reasons. Putting aside the ethical considerations, what could possibly go wrong? 11:15

4:36 looks like baby Warf from StarTrek TNG

The 70s were so fucking weird.