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After adapting Maurice Gee classic Under the Mountain for TV, writer Ken Catran wrote his own tale of teen extraterrestrial contact. While holidaying with relatives in the country astronomy-mad Gretchen discovers that a farm weathervane has mysterious powers. In this second episode of the girl-power sci-fi series, the weathervane does strange things to cars and appliances; and Gretchen and local scallywag Ronny discover a secret in a tapu swamp threatened by development. Actors Zac Wallace and Roy Billing feature, and future weatherman Jim Hickey cameos.
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Gretchen Kierney (Sarah Dunn) meets her Aunt Kathleen (Susan Wilson) and Uncle Donald (Roy Billing), but her stay on their farm is to lead to a close encounter of another kind.
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Curiosity gets the better of Ronny and he climbs up to inspect the daisy rod on top of the barn.
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Herbert Mitchell, the greedy shop keeper in Under the Dog Star is played by Raymond Hawthorne.
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Gretchen and Ronny contemplate the mysterious brass object they've found in the swamp.
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In the first episode of Children of the Dog Star, Gretchen suspects there might be something odd about the weathervane on her uncle's farm, and wants to see what will happen if she oils it.
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Sarah Dunn and Jason Wallace play Gretchen Kierney and Ronny Kepa.
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When Gretchen and Ronny find a strange looking object in a swamp on a South Auckland farm, they only have an inkling of it's significance. What they have just retrieved is part of a space probe sent to earth 7000 years ago from an advanced intelligence on the Dog Star Sirius.
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When Gretchen brings the daisy rod to the other pieces of the space probe, it begins to reactivate.
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Ronny finds Bevis lying unconscious in the swamp, and a rescue party, led by Bevis' mother Helen Elliot (Catherine Wilkin) and Constable Ben Willis (John Mellor), bring him out.
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