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Things I remember

posted 17 years ago by Perris
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OK, I was 9 when this was shown, but I remember it being fantastic - as good as Box of Delights. Why doesn't the Beeb make shows like this anymore??!!

I can't remember many things but here's what I can just about remember:

* a harry potter-looking boy stayed at his Granny's house (which he thought looked like a castle with a moat)
* he saw the ghosts of children which he played hide and seek with in a large gerden
* he got nuts and an orange on christmas day (funny how I remember that scene!)

That's it!

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[–] Sebastian_Crawford 17 years ago

I seem to remember St. Christopher being in it and someone called Linnet.

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[–] chuffnobbler 15 years ago

"Green Knowe, demon tree" ... is that the right programme? Did a tree come to life at the end of it? I vaguely remember, and it was quite creepy. Very much in the same veina s Box of Delights, Moondial and all those other brilliant kids dramas. they don't make stuff like that anymore ...

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[–] louiseculmer 7 years ago

I thought it was an excellent series. I have always been very fond of the book, which I first read fifty years ago, and the TV series is a very faithful adaptation. I can remember getting a satsuma rather than an orange in my Christmas stocking as a child. I think by then (the early 60s), they were not such a luxury as they had been in earlier times, but I suppose it was still a tradition. Always the satsuma in the toe. With my own sons I substituted a Terrys Chocolate Orange.

I have to admit to not being very keen on Box of Delights, I have always disliked stories taht end the way that does. The earlier book The Midnight Folk I liked much better. I wish they had made a series of that.

[–] lwangels0 7 years ago

I was about 5 when it came out and all I remembered was the part with Green Noah and St Christopher, there was a scene with a Christmas tree at the front door aswell.

It is all on youtube now :-)

This, Tom's midnight Garden, and my Favourite which was Moondial. They don't make them like they used to.

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