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    This short-lived BBC series was a Roundhead versus Cavalier serial for children, adapted from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s tale.

    It is 1642 and Charles l (Elton Hayes) has dissolved parliament and fled London, moving his court to Oxford as England is thrown into civil war.

    Captain Luke Settle (Patrick Troughton) is hired to kill the Killigrew family by their bailiff Hannibal Tingcomb (Nigel Arkwright) so he can take their property.

    A friend of the family, Jack Marvel (Kenneth Farrington) helps Delia Killigrew (Victoria Watts) and her father (Keith Pyott) to escape.

    The series aired on Sunday afternoons at 5.00 pm.

    Episodes

    The King’s Messenger | The Road to the West | Bristol Keep | The Godsend | Joan of the Tor | The End of the Gleys

    Jack Marvel
    Kenneth Farrington
    Captain Luke Settle
    Patrick Troughton
    Delia Killigrew
    Victoria Watts
    Hannibal Tingcomb
    Nigel Arkwright
    Black Dick
    Michael Balfour
    Sammy
    Joseph Greig
    Old Mortification
    Reginald Barratt
    Bill Widdicomb
    Peter Diamond
    Captain Bill Pottery
    Colin Douglas
    King Charles I
    Elton Hayes
    General Sir Ralph Hopton
    Reginald Hearne
    Corporal Barebones
    Christopher Hodge
    Captain Stubbs
    Trevor Martin
    Joan of the Tor
    Felicity Young
    Sly
    Ian Ainsley
    Joan’s father
    Frank Atkinson
    Sir Basil Grenville
    Roger Delgado
    Colonel Essex
    Glyn Houston
    Dr Kettell
    Tim Hudson
    Mistress Finch
    Katherine Parr
    Sue
    Brenda Peters
    Ailsie Pascoe
    Edna Petrie
    Sir Deakin Killigrew
    Keith Pyott
    Bob Drury
    Ivor Salter
    Anthony Killigrew
    Derek Smee
    Jacques
    Terence Soall
    Nathaniel Fiennes
    John Woodnutt

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