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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    Children of the New Forest, The

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    Captain Frederick Marryat’s 1847 classic children’s novel was first produced by the BBC as a six-part series which aired in April and May 1955 and was repeated again in January the following year.

    Set during the English Civil War, the series told of the trials and tribulations of the Royalist Beverley family in the days of Oliver Cromwell (played here by Warren Mitchell).

    The orphaned Beverley children – Alice (Shirley Cooklin), Edith (Gillian Gale), Humphrey (Anthony Valentine) and Edward (Alan Edwards) – are smuggled away from their home when their father (a Cavalier officer) is killed while fighting for the King’s army and taken to the isolated cottage of Jacob Armitage (Harold Scott) – a royalist forester – and hidden there.

    The aristocratic children pose as peasants and learn to survive on their own when Armitage dies, encountering various adventures and becoming involved with the family of Parliament’s new Intendant of the New Forest, Heatherstone (Ralph Nossek).

    The BBC made another six-episode series of The Children of the New Forest in 1964.

    Alice Beverley
    Shirley Cooklin
    Edith Beverley
    Gillian Gale
    Humphrey Beverley
    Anthony Valentine
    Edward Beverley
    Alan Edwards
    Oswald
    John Abineri
    Pablo
    Alaric Cotter
    Mr Heatherstone
    Ralph Nossek
    Patience Heatherstone
    Shirley Watson
    Oliver Cromwell
    Warren Mitchell
    Colonel Ingram
    Colin Douglas
    Captain Benfield
    Robert Hewitt
    Ned Corbould
    Clem Lister
    Jacob Armitage
    Harold Scott
    Agatha
    Barbara Hicks
    Narrator
    Lewis Stringer

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