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Calendargirl

Nandalot

Does anyone remember Sam with Mark McManus?

I recall it yes, but absolutely no idea now what it was about.

I remember 'Sam' too - nothing about it remains in my memory, but yes, Mark Mcmanus, who later starred in 'Taggart'.

Nandalot

Does anyone remember Sam with Mark McManus?

I recall it yes, but absolutely no idea now what it was about.

Does anyone remember Sam with Mark McManus?

Watched very little as a child and didn't go to the cinema so....the first version of The Railway Children. Watched and loved "the Never ending story"with DS many times. First TV series really got hooked on was late in the day, and it was Poirot: on the radio have followed the Archers from 1970's.

There’s a review if it on utube called Look Look and Look again. It isn’t a series that I saw but I think I’ll dip into it. I like to disappear into children’s fantasy every now and again. There’s a gap in my education with this one!

I listen to it on Apple Podcasts. I discovered it when I was on a Facebook page about The Box of Delights and The Children of Green Knowe ( it’s lovely to find out that other people share your obsessions!). They told me that Jim Moon was ‘one of us’. There’s quite a lot of crossover stuff with horror and children’s fantasy literature. He does a running commentary on The Box of Delights so I watch the dvd and listen to him chatting about it. I’ll try to find a link…

Thanks MayBee70, I went to Hypnogoria but didn't know where to look, couldn't see a search box either. I'm new to podcasts.

YouTube have the series.

There’s a Hypnogoria podcast about The Children of the Stones. Can’t do a link, though. Jim Moon does mainly horror podcasts but also covers a lot of children’s series, too.

I recall two older children's tv series I really enjoyed.

Timeslip (I still have the book, it was reread so many times)

Children of the Stones. Really spooky with an eery and wailing soundtrack!

Anyone else remember these?

Calendar girl absolutely loved 'MacKenziex' and always hoped they might repeat it. Also 'A Bouquet of Barbed Wire' with Frank Finlay and, I think, Susan Penhaligon.

Wigtown

The Graduate- saw it at least ten times. Great music and truly romantic story.

That was a very special film, and the acting was out of this world. There was a programme about it on Sky Arts and how significant it was in representing the 1960s and the USA at that time. No 17 on all time best USA movies.

Another one which blew me away when I saw it again a year or two ago was Midnight Cowboy. Dustin Hoffman was so good and that movie was no 43 on the list.

Here's the list:
www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/

I've enjoyed watching so many with my children and then grandchildren and still love them all. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Tom Thumb, Pollyanna, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The King and I, The Railway Children, Blue Hawaii, and so on. All wonderful.

I'm hoping to get them into epics like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, How the West Was Won. Despite their age these films are all so colourful and spectacular, although rather long which can be tricky.

Does anyone else remember 'Shine on Harvey Moon'? I loved the series, we lived abroad at the time and didn't get much Engliah language TV.
Another one that no-else ever seems to recall is Mistral's Daughter with Stacey Keach. So beautifully made.

A series that made a huge impression on me was Nanna. It starred Freddie Jones who I recently found out is Toby Jones father. I read all of Zolas books after that, Germinal shaped me politically but his other books reassured me that other families were as bonkers as mine.

Irismarle

I also adored ‘Love for Lydia’ and bought a DVD box set a few years ago. It is in colour, so I don’t understand why it would be transmitted in b&w.
I still enjoy it, but I was very sad to learn that Christopher Blake, then the very handsome young hero, has now died.

Me too. I Wikipedia’d all the characters and it saddened me to find that he’d died. Such a beautiful face.

I also adored ‘Love for Lydia’ and bought a DVD box set a few years ago. It is in colour, so I don’t understand why it would be transmitted in b&w.
I still enjoy it, but I was very sad to learn that Christopher Blake, then the very handsome young hero, has now died.

The Railway Children, still watch it every time it comes on the TV and never disappointed.

Notagrannie44. I know that scene. We always laugh at it.

Dixon of Dock Green, Cliff Richard and Elivs Presley films and Upstairs, Downstairs, to name a few.

Notagranny 👍

The film Deliverance had a great affect on me and I have seen it 3 times. Not for the faint hearted!

NanKate I watched "When the Boat Comes In" not long ago and it stood up very well. Characters, script and actors just as good as I remembered, and the sets were really great. There was only one instance where it was obvious that the kitchen was a set and that was when the view from the open back door was obviously painted.

The Graduate- saw it at least ten times. Great music and truly romantic story.

The Onedin Line. Wonderful music too, (Spartacus)

Many of the above. All time favourites that I watch over and over Jewel in the Crown, Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy- the Alex Guiness series, and Fortunes of War. I have the DVDs. Also loved War and Peace from the late 60s with Anthony Hopkins.

Yes Aldom! I agree. I love brief encounter too . The music in it is just wonderful. The other film I love is Remains of the day. Very touching