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children's television series based on two children's novels from the ''
Swallows and Amazons series
The ''Swallows and Amazons'' series is a series of twelve children's adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. Set in the interwar period, the novels involve group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in Eng ...
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Arthur Ransome: ''
Coot Club
''Coot Club'' is the fifth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1934. The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and ...
'' (1934) (four episodes), and ''
The Big Six
''The Big Six'' is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with ...
'' (1940) (four episodes). Despite the title, the Swallows and the Amazons children from Ransome's other books do not appear.
The setting is the
Norfolk Broads
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North ...
in the 1930s, partly near the village of
Horning. The main characters are visitors Dick and Dorothea (Dot) Callum and locals Tom Dudgeon, the twins Nell and Bess, three boatbuilders’ sons, Joe, Bill and Pete – the Death and Glories – and adults Mrs Barrable, Dr Dudgeon (father of Tom) and Frank Farland (father of the twins).
''Coot Club'' sees Dick and Dot learning to sail, whilst dealing with five obnoxious adults in the ''Margoletta'' motor cruiser, who are called the Hullabaloos by the children. ''The Big Six'' is a detective story in which the Death and Glories are accused of setting boats adrift.
A Puffin paperback with the same title was published in 1983; it is a condensation of ''Coot Club'' (omitting the postscript) and ''The Big Six'' (omitting 7 chapters). It was reissued as a Red Fox paperback in 1993 with the title ''Swallows and Amazons for Ever!''
It was intended that ''Swallows and Amazons Forever!'' should have continued with adaptions of all the books in the series, and ''
Swallowdale'' and ''
The Picts and the Martyrs
''The Picts and the Martyrs'' is the eleventh book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1943. This is the last completed book set in the Lake District and features the Blackett sisters, the Amaz ...
'' were to have been next. Casting and scouting for locations began, but the cost of filming on National Trust property in the Lake District was too expensive, so the series was cancelled.
Episodes
The series was first broadcast on BBC Two on Wednesdays in 1984.
It was repeated as two compilations on Friday 28 March and Sunday 30 March 1986.
Characters
:Richard Walton as Dick Callum
:Caroline Downer as Dorothea Callum
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Henry Dimbleby
Henry Richard Melville Dimbleby (born May 1970) is a British businessman and cookery writer who is a co-founder of Leon Restaurants and the Sustainable Restaurant Association. He was appointed lead non-executive board member of the Department ...
as Tom Dudgeon
:Claire Matthews as Bess Farland
:Sarah Matthews as Nell Farland
:Nicholas Walpole as Joe
:Mark Page as Bill
:Jake Coppard as Pete
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Rosemary Leach
Rosemary Anne Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress. She won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for ''84, Charing Cross Road'' and was nominated for the BAFTA Award fo ...
as Mrs Barrable
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John Woodvine
John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.
Early life
Woodvine was born in Tyne Dock, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, Engla ...
as Mr Tedder the Policeman
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Colin Baker
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series '' The Brothers'' from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series ''Docto ...
as Dr Dudgeon
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Andrew Burt
Andrew Thomas Hutchison Burt (23 May 1945 – 16 November 2018) was a British actor, voiceover artist, and counsellor.
Early life and education
Andrew Burt was born on 23 May 1945 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Hutchison Bu ...
as Frank Farland
:Simon Hawes as George Owden
::some minor characters
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Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords.
He is primarily known as the author of se ...
as Jerry a Hullabaloo
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Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (; 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor who was classically trained for the stage but became known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction ...
as Harry Bangate the Eel Man
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Sam Kelly
Roger Michael Kelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014), known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as Captain Hans Geering in Allo 'Allo ...
as the Owner of the Cachalot
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Debbie McGee
Debra Ann McGee (born 31 October 1958) is an English television, radio and stage performer who is best known as the assistant and widow of magician Paul Daniels. McGee is a former ballet dancer and for three years was artistic director of her ...
as the magician’s assistant
References
* (''Coot Club'')
* (''The Big Six'')
TV series
Television shows set in Norfolk
BBC children's television shows
1984 British television series debuts
1984 British television series endings
1980s British children's television series
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