Category Archives: Blyton on TV

The Famous Five 2020s Style: The Curse of Kirrin Island, part 2

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Fiona

Last week I posted a transcript of the conversation Stef and I had as we watched this for the first time. It was pretty lengthy so I kept back Stef’s more in-depth thoughts and will post them here along with … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five 2020s Style: The Curse of Kirrin Island

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Fiona

Stef was up visiting me so we thought we’d subject ourselves to the new Famous Five adaptation. Neither of us had seen it before. This would probably have made an interesting livestream but as neither of us have had any … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV: the Christmas specials part 2

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Fiona

Last time I made a few predictions as to what I thought might happen in part two. Let’s see how well I did. Christmas lights SOS Episode two starts right where we left off last time, with the girls huddled … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV: A series two overview

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Fiona

This is not going to be as easy to write as my overview for series one, mostly because it has taken me so long to watch this series that I’ve practically forgotten what happened at the beginning of it. But … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episode thirteen

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Fiona

Series three has been online for some time now, but here I am just getting to the end of series two. I don’t think that I’ve made any secret that I haven’t found this series as compelling as the first, … Continue reading →

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Monday #499

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Fiona

It’s the last Monday, and the last day, of October. That means firstly it’s Halloween today, and that the clocks went back yesterday morning. I’m writing this rather later than usual – at half past five – and it’s already … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes eleven and twelve

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Fiona

I think it’s obvious that I haven’t gotten as into this series as I did the first – hence the sporadic posts with lengthy gaps between. I did sit down and watch the final three episodes of the series earlier … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes nine and ten

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Fiona

I had almost forgotten about this, as it’s been quite a while since I last watched any of it. And with five episodes still to watch, I discovered five minutes before I sat down to episode nine that series 3 … Continue reading →

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The Sea of Adventure – TV tie in novel

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Fiona

Last year I read and reviewed the Island of Adventure TV tie in novel, and it was about as dire as I expected. I mean, the source material, the 1990s TV series was pretty terrible so it would have been … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes seven and eight

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Fiona

I have been assured by a couple of different readers that this series improves as it goes on, and having watched episodes seven and eight now I can see some glimmers of hope. Not that this series has been particularly … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes five and six

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Fiona

I has been a while since I reviewed the first four episodes of series two, Christmas got in the way and then I just never got back to it. That’s not a great sign, really, if you watch 4 episodes … Continue reading →

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The Island of Adventure: the 1980s film

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Fiona

There have been a few adaptations of the Adventure Series over the years, and this is (to my knowledge) the very first. I have already reviewed the 1990 adaptation of The Castle of Adventure with Susan George, Gareth Hunt and … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes three and four

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Fiona

After a slightly shaky start to series two, let’s have a look at episodes three and four. Episode three: The Stray There are at least four plots woven together in this episode, though three are quite minor and so don’t … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two – Episodes one and two

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Fiona

I gave the majority of the episodes in season one a glowing review (The Dress being the only one I found disappointing) so I’m keen to see how series two holds up. Episode one: The Head of Form Episode one … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series two: Everything we know

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Fiona

In March I posted with what was known about the return of Malory Towers. Well, we know quite a bit more now! When is it back? Most importantly the whole of Malory Towers series two drops tomorrow(!) on the BBC … Continue reading →

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The return of Malory Towers on TV: Everything we know

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Fiona

The Malory Towers TV Facebook page shared an exciting article on Wednesday. There are to be 26 new episodes! There has been talk of more episodes since the first series aired, but I assume due to the pandemic it has … Continue reading →

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Dog Loves Books and Enid Brighton

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Fiona

I feel like that post title needs a bit of explaining. Dog Loves Books is a CBeebies programme. Based on a book by Louise Yates it features Dog who owns a bookshop and his friend Pug, who go on adventures … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV: A series overview

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Fiona

It took about five months but I have now watched the whole series. In my last post I had intended to give some thoughts on the series as a whole, but rather ran out of space/time having written a lot … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV: Episode thirteen

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Fiona

I’ve come to this last episode wondering how it (and the series) will end. Will there be a huge cliff hanger? We already know why Darrell was asked to leave her last school, Pamela’s story was abruptly resolved when she … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV – Episodes eleven and twelve

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Fiona

We are nearly at the end of the series now, only one more episode to go after these two! In case you missed any of the previous posts: Episodes one and two Episodes three and four Episodes five and six … Continue reading →

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