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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    Gordon Honour, The

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    Taking its cue from the earlier The Silver Swan, this was an educational journey through the ages as seen through the eyes of one family. The linking device this time was a valuable candlestick with fourteen branches, the symbol of the Gordon family honour.

    The original candle had been won by a courtier of King Arthur, having saved the King’s life and another branch had been added to the candlestick every hundred years by the incumbent Gordon generation, providing their honour had not been besmirched by greed or dishonesty.

    Throughout time, the Gordon’s had to guard the candlestick against the Fitzwilliams, a jealous family line and each adventure in time would pit another ancestral Gordon against the Fitzwilliams.

    The first episode told of how the candlestick was won from King Arthur with subsequent adventures set at the time of King Richard and the Crusades, the invention of the cannon, the genesis of the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War, and the Indian Mutiny.

    Lord Freddie Gordon/Sir Rufus/Sir Phineas/Sir Roger
    Bruce Gordon
    Admiral the Duke of Tyburne/Captain Sir Francis Gordon
    Paul Whitsun-Jones
    Sir James Fitzwilliam/Sir Guy/Sir Hubert/Colonel Fitzwilliam
    Colin Douglas
    Ronald Fitzwilliam/Rollo/Sir Malthus/Sir Thomas/Sir Jeremy
    Barry Letts
    Servant
    Peter Diamond
    Barney
    Dennis Ramsden
    Poppy the maid
    Sheila Shand Gibbs (1)
    Penelope Bartley (2)
    Hunk
    Nigel Arkwright
    Matt
    Garth Adams
    Night Wolf
    Peter Macarte
    PC Willis
    Robert Perceval
    Swift Arrow
    Paddy Ward
    Chief Sitting Bull
    Peter Bull
    Gezir Mohammed
    Patrick Cargill
    Corporal Bramblehead
    Christopher Hodge
    Rumpunch
    Charles Lloyd Pack
    Kyle
    Redvers Kyle
    King Charles I
    Derek Waring
    Dusty McCool
    Shaw Taylor
    Earl of Dudgeon
    Philip Dale
    Prince Salamud
    Marne Maitland
    King Richard the Lion Heart
    Robert Raikes
    Princess Zerina
    June Rodney
    Miss Harding
    Christine Russell
    Colonel Mainwaring
    Campbell Singer
    Don Jose
    Ewen Solon
    King Arthur
    Richard Wordsworth
    King Henry VI
    Michael Allinson
    Running Deer
    Patrick Carter
    White Eagle
    John Drake
    General Poinceau
    Michael Kent
    Tim Raffety
    Arthur Lowe
    MacOstrich
    John Rae
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Peggy Thorpe-Bates

    Episodes

    King Arthur’s Candlestick | The Crusader’s Candlestick | The Gunpowder Candlestick | The Sea-Captain’s Candlestick | The Cavalier’s Candlestick | The Mutiny Candlestick | The Secret Agent’s Candlestick || The Prisoner’s Candlestick | The Potato Candlestick | The Red Indian Candlestick | The Twins Candlestick | The Wild West Candlestick | The Diving-Bell Candlestick

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