Gonks Go Beat

Psychedelic 1960s sci-fi reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with music by Lulu and the Luvvers, The Nashville Teens and The Graham Bond Organisation. Planet Earth is in great turmoil – there’s trouble brewing between the rock and roll loving residents of Beatland and their ballad-singing neighbours on Balladisle. Concerned that their musical Battle Royale may result in war, an alien race send an emissary, Wilco Roger (Kenneth Connor), to sort things out. While a race of glove puppets on the planet Gonk dance wildly and Wilco teams up with Mr A&R (Frank Thornton), salvation may be at hand when two young people, one from Beatland and one from Balladisle, fall in love.