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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Brendon Chase

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    The Hensman brothers – Robin (Craig McFarlane), John (Howard Taylor) and Harold (Paul Erangey) – are on holiday from their boarding school, staying with their Aunt Ellen (Rosalie Crutchley) in the summer of 1925 when they decide to run away and live in the woods of Brendon Chase, like Robin Hood and his merry men.

    brendonchase2The brothers take only what they need – including a .22 rifle (fitted with a silencer) stolen from Rumbold the gardener (Michael Balfour) – and make their camp in an ancient, hollow oak tree.

    Fighting off the natural dangers of living life rough, the boys occasionally forage into town for food whilst avoiding the local villagers who have by now formed a search party for the errant adolescents.

    Helping with the search are the local vicar (Christopher Biggins), the local policeman PS Bunting (Michael Robbins) and intrepid flying reporter Monica Hurling (Liza Goddard).

    brendonchase3The boys are not entirely alone the whole time and occasionally encounter some of the forests other residents, such as Smokoe Joe (Paul Curran), who shares his secrets of the forest with them enabling the children to survive through the summer until – by the final episode – the autumn, when they are finally reunited with their spinster aunt.

    Adapted from the novel by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (a.k.a ” B.B”), the producers went to great lengths to recreate the 1920s period feel for the drama, removing TV aerials and altering road markings, covering double-yellow lines with peat and repainting brightly-coloured doors and walls in more sombre shades in Porchester (Hampshire) so it could become the bustling market town of Brendon.

    Paul Erangey died in 2004. He was only 37 years old.

    brendonchase6Robin Hensman
    Craig McFarlane
    John Hensman
    Howard Taylor
    Harold Hensman

    Paul Erangey
    Aunt Ellen
    Rosalie Crutchley
    Beatrix Holcombe
    Hilary Mason
    Sergeant Bunting
    Michael Robbins
    Reverend Whiting
    Christopher Biggins
    Angela Bowers
    Veronica McNamee
    Monica Hurling
    Liza Goddard
    Rumbold
    Michael Balfour
    Mrs Bowers
    Shirley Cain
    Smokoe Joe
    Paul Curran
    Dr Bowers
    Bernard Gallagher
    Jack Welsh
    Dafydd Hywel
    Ernie
    Donald Tandy
    Hannah
    Simone Francis
    Dewar
    Joe Ritchie
    Lady Bramshott
    Frances Bennett
    Jane
    Nicola Phillips
    Jeremy
    Simon Teff
    Gracie
    Sarah Steed
    Sir William Bary
    Jimmy Edwards

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