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    1970s Television Kids TV Shows S 2 Mins Read

    Secret Garden, The

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    1 9 7 5 (UK)
    7 x 30 minute episodes

    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.

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    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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