This BBC2 miniseries – directed by Rex Tucker – debuted on 10 May 1969.
The hero, Michael Fane (Brett Usher) is inspired as a child by the adventures of Don Quixote. The book, with its nightmarish illustrations, disturbs his sleep at night and fills him with chivalrous intentions by day.
Despite a horrid fatherless childhood with an absentee mother (Jeanne Moody) and an alcoholic Nanny (Angela Baddeley), Michael grows to adolescence the perfect young gentleman, all apparently due to the constant and kindly influence of governess Miss Carthew (Jo Kendall), who goes on to marry Captain Ross (John Golightly).
Stella Fane
Gillian Hawser Michael Fane
Brett Usher Miss Carthew/Mrs Ross
Jo Kendall Annie
Kate Lansbury Henry Meats
David Collings Mrs Fane
Jeanne Moody Alan Merivale
Michael Osborne Syd Carvell
Edward Caddick Sylvia Searlett
Valerie Gearon Mrs Cleghorne
Joan Hickson Dickie Prescott
Robert James Lily Haden
Elaine Taylor Mrs Carthew
Sylvia Coleridge Michael as a child
Kim Burfield Michael as a boy
Robin Langford Nanny
Anglea Baddeley Captain Ross
John Golightly
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