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Category Archives: Blyton on TV
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Are Together Again
Now the general consensus from Blytonites is that Five Are Together Again is one of the weakest series endings to come from Blyton, and that it really isn’t the best adventure the Five could have ended on. If you think … Continue reading
The Secret Series on TV : The Secret of Killimooin
I’m going to break this post down into two headings: Things that are like the book and Things that are not like the book. I highly suspect that the second one will produce many more points. THINGS THAT ARE LIKE … Continue reading
The Secret Series on TV – The Secret of Spiggy Holes
I have been told that the Secret Series episodes get better as the show progresses, and I’m glad to say I can agree with that – but only just! The Secret of Spiggy Holes is an improvement on The Secret … Continue reading
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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have a Mystery to Solve
Five have a Mystery Solve is somewhere in the middle of my rankings of the Famous Five stories. Its neither one thing or the other. It signals the end of the series and the downward curve it takes from there. … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks
Five go to Demons Rocks is one of my favourite books and one of my first books as a child, although it was much later on in my life when I actually read the story. Again I see it as … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five on Finniston Farm
Five on Finniston Farm has to be one of my all time favourite adaptations in this TV series. It is possibly because I watched it when I was younger, and had the video on permanent loan from the library (my … Continue reading
The Secret Series on TV – The Secret Island
Tonight I’ve sat down to watch the first episode of the Secret Series as adapted by Umbrella Entertainment in the 1990s. It should be an interesting experience as judging from the back of the box, the programme bears little resemblance … Continue reading
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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Get into a Fix
This episode is probably one of the furthest from the book you can get. It in the second series and it’s just a shame that the budget perhaps wasn’t big enough to provide the sort of snowy back drop that … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go to Billycock Hill, part 2
I know there has been a break in the flow of my reviews of Five Go to Billycock Hill, for which I apologise, but when the break is made up of those gorgeously gooey macaroons, can you agree with me … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go to Billycock Hill, part 1
Another two parter from series two, and we’re back to splitting the episodes again because I couldn’t find a block of 50 minutes to watch the two back to back (this week has been crazy busy) but I’ll walk you … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five on a Secret Trail
Five on a Secret Trail is a hard to find episode, especially on video cassette. A limited number of video tapes were released with this episode in the 1990s from the retailer WHSmith. Thus when the likes of eBay was … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have Plenty of Fun
It has been a bit of a week for things not being set in stone. Tuesday night when she was due to write her blog, Fiona’s internet went down and I was supposed to be our Tuesday night but as … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go to Mystery Moor
Time to move away from two parters for a short while, and look now at a 25 minute adaptation of Five Go to Mystery Moor. Mystery Moor is one my favourite books and in fact was the first one I … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go Down to the Sea, part 1
Five Go Down to the Sea is another two part adventure in the 90s Famous Five listing. A lot of the second series were two parters and not usually for the better but that said, Five Go Down to the … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have a Wonderful Time, part 2
After promising you this blog last week and failing to write it, I hope you don’t mind me bringing you the second part of Five have a Wonderful Time, part 2. Part 1 can be found here if you need to refresh … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have a Wonderful Time, part 1
I have decided to do Five Have a Wonderful Time in two parts, because it is a two-part episode and because I think that this adaptation needs to be looked at in two different chunks. A lot of character development … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five on a Hike Together
So as you’re aware we’ve had a bit of a shift about with the blogs this week, it will come as no surprise to you that its left to me to entertain you this Sunday. Earlier in the week I … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Fall Into Adventure
I, like Fiona, have not managed to bring you the promised blog this week. I really need two weeks head start to finish a book in time at the moment and what with one thing and another (extra shifts at … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Get Into Trouble
This book is one of the more complex books when you get down to the characters and in a ways, although thrilling, the plot is sort of secondary. The characters and their interactions are what makes up for most of … Continue reading
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