The Glitterball is a 1977 British sci-fi children's film made by Mark Forstater Productions for the Children's Film Foundation.

The film was screened at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival as part of a retrospective of 16 "rarely seen" British films made between 1967 and 1979, "rediscovered" after a year of detective work by event staff.

[4] In 1979, Methuen Publishing released the children's novel by the same name, written by screenwriters Howard Thompson and Harley Cokliss.

Two boys befriend a stranded alien in the shape of a little silver ball and help it to return home.

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