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The 1968 BBC Television production of E.Nesbit’s The Railway Children, containing all seven episodes (25 minutes each, total running time 175 minutes).
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
For all the family to enjoy, this is a magical rendering of this classic tale. The settings in the Worth Valley in West Yorkshire are beautiful and this was filmed on an embryonic private enthusiast preserved railway just at the time when steam trains had disappeared from our everyday lives. All the main characters are cast very well and who can resist Jenny Agutter in one of her early roles. You would have to be very cold-hearted not to hold back a tear or a big lump in your throat at the climax to the story, and the ending scene over the closing titles says it all. The cast and producers really did enjoy making this one and it stands the test of time.
There are no shoot-outs, mass explosions or wild car chases, just honest loving relationships evolving around hard and troubled times. The recent ITV remake was good but doesn't capture the honest emotions and simple sincerity of life in less materialistic times. Go on get it for the family if you have never seen it and even better still, visit Haworth, Oakworth and the Worth Valley and you can still sample the set today!
There are no shoot-outs, mass explosions or wild car chases, just honest loving relationships evolving around hard and troubled times. The recent ITV remake was good but doesn't capture the honest emotions and simple sincerity of life in less materialistic times. Go on get it for the family if you have never seen it and even better still, visit Haworth, Oakworth and the Worth Valley and you can still sample the set today!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By B. Adams
Format:DVD
I don't remember, watching this in 1968, the children continually looking off set for their cues or the occasional clumsy improvisation but these things just add to the naive beauty of this (apparently) live production which for me was never upstaged by the slicker 1970 film version, though I feel I have to compare the two.
Gostelow brings a gentle grotesquerie to the character of Perks which I prefer to the womble-like Cribbins. Gillian Bush Bailey's Phyllis was much sweeter and less toothy than Sally Thomsett's and in this version was looked after by the barely pubescent yet excellent Jenny Agutter's Bobby.
What ever happened to Neil McDermott? (No, this Neil McDermott!)
With monoaural sound and in black and white from often scratched film stock, not slick, not faultless but in my opinion THIS is the stuff children's TV is made on.
Gostelow brings a gentle grotesquerie to the character of Perks which I prefer to the womble-like Cribbins. Gillian Bush Bailey's Phyllis was much sweeter and less toothy than Sally Thomsett's and in this version was looked after by the barely pubescent yet excellent Jenny Agutter's Bobby.
What ever happened to Neil McDermott? (No, this Neil McDermott!)
With monoaural sound and in black and white from often scratched film stock, not slick, not faultless but in my opinion THIS is the stuff children's TV is made on.
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Not the TV Series!
24 April 2010
By Rock J
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Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This DVD is the 1970 version, not the 1968. The picture is right, the description is wrong. This is the 1970 movie starring Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins, not the 1968 TV series starring Jenny Agutter, Gillian Bailey, Ann Castle, Gordon Gostelow, Neil McDermott.
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