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The Witches and The Grinnygog
The Witches and the Grinnygog can’t really be described as a classic children’s television series, not even in a cult sense so perhaps seems a strange one to start with. However it is in essence the...
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Moondial
From time to time I ask people if they were a BBC kid or an ITV kid. I’m sure that it can sometimes come across as an affectation, perhaps an attempt to turn the conversation onto children’s TV so we...
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Earthfasts
Children’s TV is often overrated. Tangled up as it is with nostalgia and associations with a more innocent time it can be disappointing when revisited. Typically produced with lower budgets than...
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Filming the Owl Service #1
I’d consciously put off writing about the Owl Service because I really didn’t know where to begin. If you’re interested in the supernatural, mythological and metaphysical in children’s television...
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The Children of Green Knowe
“I wondered whose face it would be out of all the faces I’ve known…they always come back.” So says Mrs Oldknow on first clapping eyes on young master Toseland, who is henceforth known as Tolly to...
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Penelope Lively
I’ve not watched a whole bunch of kids TV lately. You hear yourself telling some confused inebriate at a party you’re interested in the supernatural, mythological and metaphysical in children’s...
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The Moon Stallion
Girls and horses, eh? What’s that all about? No doubt there’s some disturbing Freudian interpretation that would explain it all, but perhaps we’ll save that one for another day and just accept in a...
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