The Boy from Mercury

Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.

• Martin DuffyDirector
• Martin DuffyWriter
• Stephen McKeonOriginal Music Composer

• Rita TushinghamMay Cronin
• Tom CourtenayUncle Tony Cronin
• Hugh O'ConorPaul
• James HickeyHarry Cronin
• Ian McElhinneyBrother Dowdall
• Kevin JamesJames "Mucker" Maguire
• Gerard CannonClassroom Schoolboy
• Johnny WardClassroom Schoolboy
• Joanne GerrardSarah
• Sean FlanaganSean McCarthy
• Liam HeffernanUsher
• Rachel MartinIce Cream Girl