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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    Children of Green Knowe, The

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    Young “Tolly” Oldknowe (Alec Christie) is invited by his Great Grandmother (Daphne Oxenford) – who he has never met – to spend Christmas at her large and remote house in the country.

    There, he encounters three children who lived in the house generations ago. They aren’t ghosts but exist outside time (for reasons that are never explained) and can communicate with their 20th-century cousin.

    The original 1950s story by children’s author Lucy Boston was set at Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire.

    This BBC series was not filmed there but the location work around Crow’s Hall, a 16th-century moated manor house in Stowmarket, Suffolk, is suitably picturesque yet claustrophobic in a cosy and intimate way.

    Peter Howell’s pretty violin-heavy score decorates the visuals beautifully, Colin Cant directs with subtle elegance, and the acting is superb throughout.

    Toseland “Tolly” Oldknowe
    Alec Christie
    Granny Oldknowe
    Daphne Oxenford
    Boggis
    George Malpas
    Linnet Oldknowe
    Polly Maberly
    Toby Oldknowe
    Graham McGrath
    Alexander Oldknowe
    James Trevelyan
    Mother Oldknowe
    Heather Ramsay

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