Tag Archives: The Adventure Series on TV

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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The Island of Adventure – TV tie in novel

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Fiona

A long time ago, before the word lockdown had entered our everyday vocabulary, I borrowed two books from the library. They were The Island of Adventure and The Sea of Adventure, both being novels based on the Cloud 9 TV … Continue reading →

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Blyton by others: A guide to unnecessary retellings of Blyton’s work

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Fiona

I recently wrote a guide to continuations of Blyton’s series, whether they be prequels, sequels or gap-fillers. While looking for all the possible things to feature I ruled out several books by other authors as they didn’t “continue” a story … Continue reading →

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Search terms, the 7th edition

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Fiona

I may have decided to do this a bit prematurely, I haven’t collected as many search terms as I usually do before I write a post. But never mind, let’s see what Google has to offer us this time! We … Continue reading →

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Fiona’s 10 facts about the Adventure Series and me

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Fiona

A way, way back when the blog was relatively new Stef and I both wrote 10 facts about the Famous Five and ourselves. I’m now going to do the same for the Adventure Series. 1. The Circus of Adventure is … Continue reading →

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The future of Blyton on screen?

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Fiona

The news that the Faraway Tree Series adaptation for the big screen has made some progress got me thinking. Blyton wrote so much, so what else could be adapted? WHAT HAS ALREADY COME TO PASS Obviously there are a fair … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure part 7

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Fiona

We left last week on a cliff-hanger again. Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Philip (inside a suit of armour) were down in the cellar/dungeon and shut themselves in. Then someone opened the trap-door and came down to join them. But is it … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure, part 6

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Fiona

Yet again we ended with a cliff-hanger created by character clumsiness/silliness. Previously we have had Dinah sliding off a perfectly good tree-bridge and Jack being attacked by an eagle while climbing the tower. Not to mention all the high-drama accidents … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure, part 5

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Fiona

We ended on a less-dramatic scene in the last episode (I hesitate to call it a cliff-hanger, actually) with someone – Bill? MOD man? Sam? someone from the castle? prowling around Spring Cottage. SO JUST WHO IS THE NIGHT-TIME PROWLER? … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure, part 4

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Fiona

Yet again the previous episode ended with a cliff-hanger, or perhaps I should say tower-hanger, as Jack was hanging from the ivy on the castle’s tower while the eagle swooped down at him. And we find out that Jack fell … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure, part 3

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Fiona

The previous episode ended on a cliff-hanger (almost literally) as Dinah plunged from a tree into the enormous moat around the castle. I’m fairly confident that she will be OK, however, given that she is unlikely to disappear from the … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure part 2

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Fiona

I have now watched the second episode of the eight. Previously we saw the children arrive at Spring Cottage which is beside some sort of military operation, and Jack and Philip have been spied on by a strange man. PREVIOUSLY … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Castle of Adventure

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Fiona

I have already watched and reviewed the 8 episodes of The Adventure Series made in New Zealand. You may have tried to repress this information (I know I have) but they couldn’t make The Castle of Adventure, as the rights weren’t … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The making of feature

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Fiona

On the final disc of the set is a feature called The making of The Enid Blyton Adventure Series. I can’t say I noticed one on the Secret Series DVD but I will have to check that. THE SERIES IN … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV – The River of Adventure

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Fiona

Here I am going back to the penultimate episode after watching in book order. I rate River as my least favourite anyway, so I suspect this could be quite dire. I imagine a lot will have to be changed, as … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Circus of Adventure

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Fiona

So two things before I start this week. Firstly, I had forgotten that the TV series has mucked about the order of the episodes. For some reason they have River as the seventh and Circus as the eighth. I promised … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: The Ship of Adventure

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Fiona

This is my second least favourite of the series (River being the least) so you have been warned, this review may be more negative than usual. It’s not that I don’t like the book, it’s just not as good as … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV: Mountain of Adventure

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Fiona

This series has certainly had ups and downs in its run so far. For me, Island was an acceptable adaptation, Woods was absolutely awful in every way, Valley was an unexpected success and then Sea was another reasonable episode. Shall … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV – The Sea of Adventure

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Fiona

I think that Valley of Adventure has to be the strongest episode of this series so far (and far better than anything from The Secret Series had to offer). I really hope the series can stay on form at this point … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series on TV – The Valley of Adventure

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Fiona

I am going to watch the third episode from The Adventure Series this week – and thankfully we are back to a familiar title and hopefully a more familiar plot! THE ALWAYS MYSTERIOUS PRECREDITS SCENE This time we are on … Continue reading →

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