I can't believe I never thought of this before - other people must surely have covered this somewhere?

The funny, beepy alien speech in The Boy From Space, well I'd always just assumed it was random, electronically generated noises strung together. But it's not - it's actual English speech, obviously scripted just like the normal dialogue was, being played backwards and mucked about with a bit!

It's not very easy to make it out on the TV film, because it's been mucked about with an awful lot, and there's all ambient sounds getting in the way. One of them that I tried playing backwards seemed to involve Peep-peep saying to Dan at the end "we fly through space together" or something along those lines, but it's generally quite indistinct.

However - on the LP recording of the story, the space speech is read out completely isolated, and only a bit peeped-up, so you can actually tell exactly what they're saying most of the time just by playing it backwards! Here's some examples:

Peep-peep calls out to the kids in the sand-pit - "you must help me, please don't go!"
There's a few similar ones - you can get them in the Chapter 2 MP3 I put up in another thread - where he's going "you must help me, I'm over here!" and such like.

The Thin Man ambushes Bunting & Peep-peep: "March!", (Narrator: "Then he made Peep-peep get out of the car"), "Back to the ship!"
Remember, because this is all played backwards, the actual sequence of conversation would be "back to the ship", then Peep-peep gets out of the car, then "March!".

Peep-peep's Father tries to tell Mr Bunting about the meteorite room.
I can't quite make this one out, I think it's either "the meteorites are from space," or "the meteorites are not safe," or something like that. Anybody got any better suggestions? (Narrator's line is "And then at all the meteorites.")


So there you go - the actual space-men's voices!

If anybody can make out what's being said in any of the TV episodes, please post it here! I'll definitely be adding some of this to the site proper as soon as I find time to update it...