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Luna, the TV show, was a children's Science Fiction show shown on television in the UK which ran for two seasons in 1983 and 1984 . ''Luna'' was also the name of the show's central character, played by a juvenile Patsy Kensit (1st season) and by Joanna Wyatt (2nd season). Luna was co-written by Colin Bennett who also starred in it. It was created and produced by Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees fame. The show is about the domestic life of a family group set in the year 2040 - although in the setting, the characters (other than Luna's Geeky brother) are not in fact a family. A distinctive feature of the show was the language of "techno-talk", used by all of the characters, and described as an alternate version of English that had emerged to make it easier for computers to understand human's speech. Techno-talk is characterised by the formation of new words from stems that already exist in regular spoken english. For example, the characters live in a "habiviron", from ''habitat'' and ''environment''. Similarly, school is "eduviron"; a child (as most of the characters are) is a "diminibeing", abbreviated to "dimini"; and "regrets!" and "gratitudes!" replace "sorry" and "thank you". The series was extremely unusual for its time in being a science fiction series with a female lead character. Parts of the setting are also decidedly dystopic; in the first episode, Luna is threatened with execution for having lost her citizen's identity card. There is no record of the series having been repeated since its first airing, but it has been confirmed that the entire series still exists in archive. EXTERNAL LINKS
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