Photon (TV series)

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Photon was a live action series based on the infrared tag game popular in the 1980s. The series took place on Earth and in space on various worlds and involved a young human teen named Christopher Jarvis who is a champion player of Photon. He receives a mysterious message one day while playing and is transported to the ship of Mother One, the leader of the Federation of Light a galactic amalgam of beings dedicated to playing Photon and the power of good over evil. Mother One observes all Photon arenas and finds the best players on various worlds to cull her forces to fight against The Forces of Darkness. The Federation of Lights goal is not just to stop the Forces of Darkness but to energize every planet with an unenergized photon crystal with the power of light before the Forces of Darkness can energize it with the dark energies and plunge these worlds into chaos. When Christopher Jarvis beamed to the mothership he would go by his Photon callsign "Bohdi Li" and he was accompanied by his fellow alien photon warriors Nivea a princes from an amazonian race, Lord Bethan, a cyborg warrior, and another human warrior, a child genius named Parcival. The series was shot entirely in Tokyo so that the campiness of Japanese direction could be used as its filming style. As well, the series had a lot of popular rock tunes being used in certain scenes and a heavy moral message rounded out each episode, much like a lot of the shows that were shown during he eighties.