Can anyone remember this old BBC kids series
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Right, i'll probably sound barking mad, but does anyone recall the name of this series?
It was on kids BBC in the mid to late 80s. From what i recall it was about a girl who was either visitng family or returned home over christmas (i think, it was certainly wintery). The house was a big old mansion, and it was haunted. I recall a rocking horse being important, and most oddly a scary haunted tree, that i think was destroyed in the final episode. It was set either in the 1920s or possibly victorian.
Hope somebody can remember it.
Andy
It was on kids BBC in the mid to late 80s. From what i recall it was about a girl who was either visitng family or returned home over christmas (i think, it was certainly wintery). The house was a big old mansion, and it was haunted. I recall a rocking horse being important, and most oddly a scary haunted tree, that i think was destroyed in the final episode. It was set either in the 1920s or possibly victorian.
Hope somebody can remember it.
Andy
Found it!!!
It was called Green Knowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRsw-kq_AU&fea...
i can rest easy now
It was called Green Knowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRsw-kq_AU&fea...
i can rest easy now
A bit late to join in here but you immediatly made me think of another show that I loved called The Box of Delights! The wolf scared the s
t out of me as a child.
wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
ETA: Ooooh, just bought it :-)
t out of me as a child.wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
ETA: Ooooh, just bought it :-)
Edited by Custard Test on Tuesday 22 December 13:02
Custard Test said:
A bit late to join in here but you immediatly made me think of another show that I loved called The Box of Delights! The wolf scared the st out of me as a child.
wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
Rather dodgy early CGI if I recall correctly. It was early days for such techniques back then (1988 or '89).t out of me as a child.wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
Eric Mc said:
Custard Test said:
A bit late to join in here but you immediatly made me think of another show that I loved called The Box of Delights! The wolf scared the st out of me as a child.
wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
Rather dodgy early CGI if I recall correctly. It was early days for such techniques back then (1988 or '89).t out of me as a child.wish I could have it on DVD....mmmm google may turn one up.
bob1179 said:
I just saw a Youtube link for 'Chocky' there! I haven't seen that since I was a young lad, think I may spend the rst of the afternoon watching it.
I loved Chocky I don't know what kid shows are like today but there used to be some really good ones yrs ago. I used to watch mainly bbc but am I right in thinking that Chocky was an itv series.
I remember ?Moonfleet as well.
I think there was a program with a girl called ?Minty based on her seeing things from the passed, I could be completely off track though!!
Nuclearsquash said:
Found it!!!
It was called Green Knowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRsw-kq_AU&fea...
i can rest easy now
OMG I was only thinking about that yesterday when reading the thread about things from when you were a kid. I couldn't remember the name either so thank you.It was called Green Knowe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRsw-kq_AU&fea...
i can rest easy now
The Children of Green Knowe, wasn't that about ghosts of 2 children who died of the black death or during the English Civil War and the girl (in the video clip above) moves into the old house as a WWII evacuee sees them, talks to them or sees their lives? A bit like the Amazing Mr Blunden film time story?
becksW said:
Well after a bit of hunting and thinking I finally found the program and it did indeed have a girl called Minty in it. It was called Moon Dial. Well I am happy now even though I have just 'wasted' half an hr!
Moon Dial! I loved that too, as well as Box of Delights. even though I have just 'wasted' half an hr!I am now going to trawl through Amazon and see if you can get them on DVD!
Oooh, a TV nostalgia thread! Some of the series mentioned bring back memories.
While we're on the subject of half-recalled childhood TV memories, I have a very vague recollection of something I saw when I was young and the only scene that sticks in my memory is one where the body of a soldier, in the typical 19th century redcoat tunic, is found dead in bed in a room which had been bricked up. I think it may have been a big old house.
Sound familiar to anyone...? A longshot, I know, but the PH TV massive may just come up trumps!
While we're on the subject of half-recalled childhood TV memories, I have a very vague recollection of something I saw when I was young and the only scene that sticks in my memory is one where the body of a soldier, in the typical 19th century redcoat tunic, is found dead in bed in a room which had been bricked up. I think it may have been a big old house.
Sound familiar to anyone...? A longshot, I know, but the PH TV massive may just come up trumps!
Lurking Lawyer said:
Oooh, a TV nostalgia thread! Some of the series mentioned bring back memories.
While we're on the subject of half-recalled childhood TV memories, I have a very vague recollection of something I saw when I was young and the only scene that sticks in my memory is one where the body of a soldier, in the typical 19th century redcoat tunic, is found dead in bed in a room which had been bricked up. I think it may have been a big old house.
Sound familiar to anyone...? A longshot, I know, but the PH TV massive may just come up trumps!
Not ringing any bells yet, which decade (if you don't mind me asking!) are we looking at?While we're on the subject of half-recalled childhood TV memories, I have a very vague recollection of something I saw when I was young and the only scene that sticks in my memory is one where the body of a soldier, in the typical 19th century redcoat tunic, is found dead in bed in a room which had been bricked up. I think it may have been a big old house.
Sound familiar to anyone...? A longshot, I know, but the PH TV massive may just come up trumps!
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