The future of Mythos...

I recently unearthed a long-forgotten document that was sent to the BBC around the time we were recording Mythos: Glamis and Mythos: Albion. It was a short pitch for three more Mythos shows, the first of which would almost certainly be the one we make if we hit our stretch goal on the current Kickstarter Campaign:

MYTHOS: MIDWICH

The Midwich Children are all middle-aged now but they haven’t matured psychologically beyond their pre-teens. Whatever put them on Earth clearly got something wrong and has long abandoned the experiment. The village of Midwich is under Miranda Hyde’s purview and she uses the “children” as a kind of hive-mind early warning system; they seem especially attuned to folkloric disturbances and have successfully alerted the Department to a number of events that may have proved disastrous had they caught Johnson and his team unawares.

Now, though, something is going wrong with the hive mind; a psychological infection seems to be taking hold of the “children”, like an organic computer system being attacked by a virus.

Miranda Hyde brings in Lairre and Parker to find and neutralise the source of the infection. Our heroes arrive in Midwich to discover a village that is seemingly preserved in 1950s aspic (the better to keep the “children” comfortable) and, before they can say “Golly gosh, this all seems to have got a little out of hand”, the Midwich hive-mind finally snaps, fracturing reality and plunging Lairre and Parker into a Blyton-esque adventure with unusually apocalyptic overtones.

Can our heroes save the world and still be home in time for lemonade and ginger biscuits?

I'm brimming with ideas for where this story can go, and what we could do with an ongoing Mythos story. If it sounds like it's up your street, and you haven't already pledged to the Kickstarter, please take a look today and pledge what you can (every little helps). If we hit that stretch goal, you'll make some curiously blue-eyed children very happy...