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The BBC announced last year that they were to film a new version of the Famous Five in which the original characters reunite as adults to solve a mystery in a contemporary setting.
I havent heard any more on this project! Not even info as to its casting.
Anybody have further info? Im really looking forward to this, but I doubt we'll see it until at least autumn / winter 2009 as there's nothing in the BBC Press Room for this season.
I havent heard any more on this project! Not even info as to its casting.
Anybody have further info? Im really looking forward to this, but I doubt we'll see it until at least autumn / winter 2009 as there's nothing in the BBC Press Room for this season.
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I wonder if they'll ever consider making a new series based on The Secret Seven!
Yep! it would be the third.
The first was the 1978 production by Southern productions for ITV and had 26 episodes. This is the one I enjoyed watching as a kid!
The second, again for ITV, was produced in 1996 and was a more politically correct version with Aunt fanny being renamed Aunt frances!
There's also the new Disney animated series 5 on the Case which is set in modern times and has the kids of the original characters - but I dont like to associate this with the FF
I was never aware there was a TV series made on the Secret Seven though!
I do know they did make a TV series about Blyton's Mystery and Adventure series -The castle of Adventure, etc.
Also, they never made a TV series out of teh Five Find outers did they?? Their books were usually The Mystery of Series
Oh God no - they were so boring. Can't even remember their names... was there a Janet??
They were always in that shed of theirs, and whenever something remotely exciting happened the two oldest boys would go and sort it out while the girls stayed at home.
Famous Five were far better - great characters, different location in each book etc.
Peter Colin Jack George Barbara Pam and Janet
and scamper the dog
That's it! Colin
I mean, you can't have a person called 'Colin' having an adventure!
Even the Five Find-outers were better than the Secret Seven... and before someone asks, they were Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Fatty. Though their full-names were Laurence Daykin, Margaret Daykin, Philip Hilton, Elizabeth Hilton and Frederick Troteville (:D).
you forgot Buster
Ah yes, Buster, the mighty, ferocious.... er scottie dog!
All the crims were terrified of him, even though they could easily have killed him by treading on him!
Timmy was the best - big mongrel with big teeth
The first series of The Famous Five was available on VHS.
I have all but a couple of episodes.
Sadly - the girl who played George committed suicide in 2000.
The 1996 series was more faithful to the books and I have them on a dvd boxset from Spain.
I believe there is also a Dutch boxset .
Not sure why there was only ever 1 UK dvd of that show
Timmy was my favourite too. Never quite saw the point of buster and scamper (a cocker spaniel IIRC).
But I will give this a chance.
Icecream sandwiches and lashings of ginger pop! How simply marvellous
That would be Jack
I loved those books! Still read them from time to time.
Don't forget KIKI the Parrot!
I saw the 1970s version on VHS when I was a kid in the 1990s. It was cheap and ghastly
I'm glad I didn't watch more than a few eps though, because that way I have kept the Five, Kirrin Cottage etc in my minds-eye as I imagined them.
Once you see a film or TV adaptation it's difficult to go back to imagining your original interpretation of appearances and locations.
Was that not the faraway tree? The original characters were called Jo, Bessie and Fanny.
These have now been changed to Joe, Beth and Frannie
My favourites were Mallory Towers, St Clares and The Famous Five.:)