Enid Blyton and the Famous Five

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Originally posted by neev

Does anyone remember the Cherry Tree Farm (or something like that) series?
These kids moved to a farm. All I remember was one of them was called Benji (he had a dog called True), one was called Penny, one was called Rory, and they had a carthorse called Darling. Oh and they were friends with a wild man called Tammylan! I don't remember a lot of the sexist/racist stuff but I do remember in the Famous Five TV show, "Tiiimmmy the dooooogggggg" was a different breed of dog every series!

There was a Willow Farm novel too
possibly 2/3 books altogether between Cherry and Willow

PBC_1966

I read several of the books as a kid growing up in the 70s, and watched the Southern TV series. The one thing about that first series though was that it was clearly modern-times, with 1970s hair styles and clothes, newer cars, and so on.

When the new ITV series rolled out a few years ago I decided to watch it to see what sort of of job they made of it (so I'm a big kid ). It's not often that I find a modern remake of something particularly good, but in this case I think the producer's did a good job of keeping the stories in the original era.

neGev

Originally posted by Adeptus Titanicus
Also Class! Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and... can't remember the third.... I loved their hideout in Jupiter's Uncle's junkyard.

Bob Andrews, wasn't it?
I think they did a second series based on the three when they were 18ish years old, which was quite decent iirc.

bumblebeemouth

Never read the books but when I watched the episodes on tv I used to think George was a boy!!! Then one day it hit me.........:eek:

thejuggler

I suppsoe it was the innocence of youth but it never dawned on me that george was a lesbian character - more of a transexual - before her time I guess.

sceptre

Originally posted by Para||eL
Bob Andrews, wasn't it?

Think so. In charge of "records" ("get dusty in libraries")