In 19th-century India, spoilt, ill-tempered young Mary Lennox (Sarah Hollis Andrews) is suddenly orphaned by cholera. Her only living relative is her crook-backed uncle, Archibald Craven (John Woodnutt), so Mary is sent to live at his remote estate on the Yorkshire moors (the actual filming location was a stately home at Burton Constable in East Yorkshire).
Rude and unpleasant, Mary gradually begins to change as she explores the manor and grows to know some of the servants, particularly her maid Martha (Jacqueline Hoyle), and Ben Weatherstaff (Tom Harrison) the gardener.
With the help of a robin, Mary discovers a forgotten walled garden, abandoned and overgrown.
There she meets young Dickon (Andrew Harrison) – a local village lad – and makes him promise to keep the garden their secret.
She also discovers a cousin she never knew she had – secreted away in a hidden room in the house – and begins to form plans that transform her cousin, the garden, and ultimately herself.
Dickon and Mary take Colin to the secret garden where he begins to be cured of his tantrums and gradually discovers that he is able to walk again.
Mary Lennox
Sarah Hollis Andrews Dickon
Andrew Harrison Colin Craven
David Patterson Mr Archibald Craven
John Woodnutt Mrs Medlock
Hope Johnstone John
William Marsh Nurse
Jennie Goossens Martha
Jacqueline Hoyle Ben Weatherstaff
Tom Harrison Mrs Sowerby
Lorraine Peters Dr Craven
Richard Warner Pitcher
Basil Clarke ‘Lizabeth Ellen
Alison Lowndes
Episodes
There Is No One Left | The Cry in the Corridor | The Door in the Wall | I Am Colin | A Tantrum | When the Sun Went Down | Magic
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