My favourite series as a child. I would become so absorbed in them and craved an adventure with all my heart. At one point I drew a plan to dig a secret room under my bedroom. 🙏❤️🕊️thankyou Enid Blyton
My great aunt gave me this book around 1953. One of my favorites - I read the others as library books but eventually bought all of them. Yes, the writing could have been better w/o grammatical errors, etc., but you can't fault the action and the imagination factor. Ms. Blyton transported her readers to fanciful places and we were delighted to go along on the journeys.
I read them too fast to notice errors- couldn't put them down! People just got jealous of her success and had to find some fault. She got me through difficult schooling and childhood and i am grateful to her. Sometimes when things are corrected and 'perfected' technically, they can lose their original spontaneity, as the words' original flow gets lost. At 7-11 years old, who cared anyway, lol...
I got the book from my dad who read it as a child and then also found the others in my local library :D I read it in German, so I didn't notice any errors there, it's still one of my favourite children's book series!
I never knew this was a series, I had a condensed version on video and always thought it was a 2 hour movie will look forward watching to watching it this way and see what I missed out on.
Can you imagine filming with Brian Blessed. I bet he was a riot. He would have been effing and jeffing. Those kids must have had a great time working with him.
I’ve discovered that BB’s character in this isn’t in the book. It’s like the makers thought ‘we’ve got this legend, let’s work him in somehow’. That’s what you do with people like him.
Wanda James to me this a great update, they treat it with respect. And yes it would be nice to see them as period pieces but they cost more and the famous 5 did that around this time so I think it was nice to see it done this way. We as kids connected really well with this.
I have to admit, this production does seem to have taken everything that was bad in the 90s and put it in a blender. Bad hair and bad clothes especially
Susan George had rather a small part in this. I did hear that she was ill during production and Isobel Black took over as the leading lady of the production. Can't think of any other reason for Susan George to play such a small part.
Oh, that's too bad - and incompetent of such a company as Fox/Disney! I have it on video but can't watch it now as I have no VCR player anymore. Maybe I can get it copied to disc. Good thing it's on youtube, though there's nothing like owning the DVD. Oh, well. Thanks for that info.
Yes Dinah had brown hair and Lucy-Ann had red hair. The difference here is Bill is not an old friend of their parent's, he met the children as a stranger in the first book Island and later met and married their mum (or Aunt Allie) and they adopted Jack and Lucy-Ann in Ship.
Absolutely loved this series as a kid! Can’t wait to watch it all again at 42 years old.
I miss this era of tv. Magical
Our childhood dreams and adventures... so nice to remember about this again.
Thank you so much.
My favourite series as a child. I would become so absorbed in them and craved an adventure with all my heart. At one point I drew a plan to dig a secret room under my bedroom. 🙏❤️🕊️thankyou Enid Blyton
My great aunt gave me this book around 1953. One of my favorites - I read the others as library books but eventually bought all of them. Yes, the writing could have been better w/o grammatical errors, etc., but you can't fault the action and the imagination factor. Ms. Blyton transported her readers to fanciful places and we were delighted to go along on the journeys.
I read them too fast to notice errors- couldn't put them down! People just got jealous of her success and had to find some fault. She got me through difficult schooling and childhood and i am grateful to her. Sometimes when things are corrected and 'perfected' technically, they can lose their original spontaneity, as the words' original flow gets lost. At 7-11 years old, who cared anyway, lol...
I got the book from my dad who read it as a child and then also found the others in my local library :D I read it in German, so I didn't notice any errors there, it's still one of my favourite children's book series!
I never knew this was a series, I had a condensed version on video and always thought it was a 2 hour movie will look forward watching to watching it this way and see what I missed out on.
Can you imagine filming with Brian Blessed. I bet he was a riot. He would have been effing and jeffing. Those kids must have had a great time working with him.
I’ve discovered that BB’s character in this isn’t in the book. It’s like the makers thought ‘we’ve got this legend, let’s work him in somehow’. That’s what you do with people like him.
Oh my god. I’ve found it.
❤
This should have been a period piece as all Blyton's books were --and they work better in the era they were written
Wanda James to me this a great update, they treat it with respect. And yes it would be nice to see them as period pieces but they cost more and the famous 5 did that around this time so I think it was nice to see it done this way. We as kids connected really well with this.
I have to admit, this production does seem to have taken everything that was bad in the 90s and put it in a blender. Bad hair and bad clothes especially
Susan George had rather a small part in this. I did hear that she was ill during production and Isobel Black took over as the leading lady of the production. Can't think of any other reason for Susan George to play such a small part.
This is so dated, even when updated for the 90s. Nobody can just knock on the back door and walk in and not be chased out, much less offered tea
Selina Moses different times back then.
This was the first film on vhs
Please put this on DVD!!!
The is not much chance of any DVD release of this or any TVS production, due to Fox/Disney who now owns the TVS archive losing the paper work.
Oh, that's too bad - and incompetent of such a company as Fox/Disney! I have it on video but can't watch it now as I have no VCR player anymore. Maybe I can get it copied to disc. Good thing it's on youtube, though there's nothing like owning the DVD. Oh, well. Thanks for that info.
@@sandrakeeley8960 watch it on TH-cam!
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Rosie Marcel later went on to play the dislikeable Jac Naylor in Holby City.
Dina is played by a young Rosie marcel aka jac naylor from holly city.
and Louise Larson in The Bill plus Jeff alias Tony O'Callaghan became Sgt Boyden
Its not Bill its Philip at the boatshed when Jacks calling
Dinah had dark hair
Right?
brown
Yes
Yes Dinah had brown hair and Lucy-Ann had red hair. The difference here is Bill is not an old friend of their parent's, he met the children as a stranger in the first book Island and later met and married their mum (or Aunt Allie) and they adopted Jack and Lucy-Ann in Ship.
@@madiam4u Lucy had red hair & freckles!
@@alanaronald244 Hmm maybe I misremember.