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Love on a Saturday Night
Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi, I am trying to get hold of a copy of Love on a Saturday night with Davina McCall. I think it was series 1, show 4 with the guessed star Kelli Young. Can you please let me know how I can get hold of a copy? My friend Antony was on the programme and I want to get him a copy for his 30th birthday as he has never seen it. Thanks in advance for your help. Kind regards Laura
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi there I remember a British TV series from the late seventies early eighties, which begun with either a girl or a boy skipping over a hop scotch while walking with their mother. the image has haunted me because I cant figure what the programme is I know my description is very poor hopefully it may jog someones mind out there thanks
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
This is not much to go on but I remember a particular scene from a children’s TV series from the 70’s:- as I recall, this involved a boy & girl standing outside then going in to a hall with columns / mirrors and the bad guy / monster (whatever) being in there with them. Can anyone put me out of my misery?
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
When I was a young child (in the 70’s), a short film was often shown on the television. It was in black and white (probably from the 50’s or 60’s) and ended with someone rowing across a lake before a loch-ness type monster surfaced (and I think it actually spoke as well). Any ideas?
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
In the 70’s,the BBC showed various tales from Europe – the most famous being ‘the singing ringing tree’ and I remember another called ‘three nuts for cinderella’. However, can anyone remember one about someone who could hear animals talk after he ate a ‘snake-like’ creature which a king was meant to eat – or am I going mad?
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi. I am trying to remember a kids show from the late 70s/early 80s. It involved children who travelled through time and featured some Victorian scenes. I remember a few kids together who went back to the past. There were more than 2 kids. There is a scene where they meet a young Victorian girl who tells them her name and she has lots of Christian names. I think she is meant to be royal or aristocratic. She seems to be having a picnic on her own. One of the boys from the present fancies her and pretends he has lots of Christian names, to try to impress her. Then he forgets his names, and she thinks he's an idiot! That's all I remember. Anyone?
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BBC Nationwide
Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
I'm looking for a copy of a performance of the Halleluia Chorus by Redhill School Choir in Nottingham for BBC Nationwide (I think) back in the 1970s. I know its not strictly an episode as such, but I wondered if anyone in the choir had recorded it as a souvenir? Thanks.
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Date added: 20th April 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi, I'm trying to remember the name of a two- part thriller that was on TV, back between 7 - 21 December 1991. It was American, and it was about a married couple. He was a doctor and was totally sadistic, although his wife was unaware of this until after they were married. I can remember a scene, in which she is swimming in a lake and a crocodile appears behind her. Her husband notices but says nothing and carries on watching until the crocodile is really close to her, and then tells her to look behind and swim for her life! There are several incidents like this, of mental, as well as physical cruelty. However, she doesn't leave him until she discovers he has been giving their baby small doses of poison (not enough to kill. but enough to make him very sick) That is when she has to plan to escape with the baby. I seem to remember it was on-the-edge-of-your-seat stuff! If anyone knows and can tell me what the title of this movie is, I would be very grateful! Thanks!
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Date added: 25th March 2008	Updated: N/A
Hello, I'm after a documentary series from the 70s where several families tried to live in the way people would have done in a certain period of history. That might have been something like medieval times, as I think they lived in simple structures, built with wattle and daub, used plant dyes, and used only simple tools etc. I remember a dilemma about whether they should use modern medicine when one of their children was ill. I'm pretty sure it was a BBC series, but have no idea what it was called. Thanks, Ailsa
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Date added: 16th March 2008	Updated: N/A
Im trying to find an early 90’s (possibly 80’s) childrens tv show. Shown on a Saturday (but might have been during the week), I think on channel 4. It was based possibly in an Australian or American farm town, I know it had a swamp scene though. If I remember correctly it had a ship that crashed with parts of the ship falling over the area. I remember a camera that appears on a barn that watches over the people of the area and a scene where the children find a part of the ship in a swamp, the end of the scene is the part sinking itself. I cant remember if these parts were sentient or not. I think the camera was quite a major part of the story as you kept seeing the view from the camera – with menacing music behind it.
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Whizziwig / Aquila
Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi, I wondered if anyone knows where I can find episodes of Whizziwig? It was a very popular childrens book that was on tv around 1997. It was about an alien that crashed his spaceship in this boys back garden. He was granted wishes. The boy used to take him to school in his bag and Whizziwig caused him a few problems! Also, Id love to find Aquila. I think this was around the same time. It was about a spaceship that turned invisible. 2 boys used to travel around in it. My son loved these programmes and now his birthday is coming up, Id really love to find them for him again. Please help! Lisa
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Diana
Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
I have been trying to find a BBC series originally shown in 1984 called Diana. It starred Patsy Kensit and Jenny Seagrove in the title roles. As far as I am aware it has never been released commercially in the UK. Do you know where I may be able to obtain a recording? Thanks Paul Wright
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Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
I am trying to find a program that was shown between 1970-1975, possibly for only one season, probably on a Friday or Saturday night as I seem to remember it was on late (school time of life!!). My vague recollections make me think it was a BBC program because of the cheap indoor sets (BBC 2) but, contradictory, ITV haunts my memory. Possibly after 9 O'clock, probably after 10. I think it was set in Imperial China or Japan, in 14/15/16 Century and I have the image of one man advising another with wise, Confucius thoughts and maxims. Filmed in the studio with cliché Chinois props and I think a pool with a bridge across and possibly at night (I seem to remember a big moon). I doubt whether it will ever be released on DVD but I'd love to see it again as it obviously made an impression on me. Cheers Carl.
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Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi I'm wondering if you can help me. I can remember a Children's series in the 80s. It was loosely based around Lord of the Flies. From what I can remember it opened with two buys going to the neighbours to borrow sugar. They are then shipwrecked on an island. I hope you or somebody you know can shed some light on this. Thanks for your help. Tony
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Georgian House

Date added: 8th December 2007

Updated: 10th February 2008

Hi, please can you help???

I have strong memories of a TV programme I watched in the seventies that no-one else seems to remember!!

I think a family moved/lived in a big house and was give a music box/or drum when played or opened would play African drums and they would be transported back in time to when another family lived there with servants 100 years or more in the past, the servants were African.

Did this programme exist or is it just my overactive imagination.

Hope you can help.
Cheers,
Toni

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This was called ‘Georgian House’
Not available on DVD as far as I’m aware

I think the programme was called Georgian House, which was a museum. cant find anything on it myself either but at least you know your not going mad! if i remember rightly the camera pans in on a carved African model and everything in the house goes back in time.

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Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
I'm looking for a few old TV series and wondered if you could put them up on your site in case any of your readers can be of help? Perfect Scoundrels from 1990 with Peter Bowles and Bryan Murray The Good Guys with Nigel Havers and Keith Baron
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Date added: 10th February 2008	Updated: N/A
Could you please tell me a title of a comedy drama series from the mid to late 1980's about a woman who helps her father to start or re-start a football team. The father or daughter had been estranged from each other, or for some reason (injury?) he wasn't keen on getting involved in football again. The series was based in Scotland.
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Date added: 7th January 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi I was wondering could someone please help me with this it is driving me mad. I would say late 80’s a programme about a little girl who lived in a freezer in the supermarket. All I can remember is she slept in a matchbox with cotton wool, and she used to fire out frozen peas with the plastic spoons from ice-cream. If anyone can please tell me the name of this programme it would be much appreciated. Thanks Niamh
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Date added: 18th December 2007

Updated: 6th January 2008

Hi I'm trying to find an old childrens programme from the 80's, it had a "doctor who" like character possibly John Pertwee, who could travel around in a small black and white striped box with his two sidekicks, usually 1 boy 1 girl, however they had to shrink themselves down to fit in the box by saying the phrase "In the box,Out the box 123". This has been driving me nuts for years as nobody seems to remember it, please help. Many thanks...

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I think the programme you are referring to is a children's maths teaching series called MATHS-IN-A-BOX (1979). The strangely dressed maths man was called Powka, played by Eugene Geasley. The two children, aged about 10, were Tracey (Melissa Wilks) and Paul (Clark Flanagan). The catch-phrase to transport themselves was 'Tikky-tikki-tox, into the box'.

Date added: 29th July 2007

Updated: 6th January 2008

I hope someone can help me cos I am sure I didn’t dream this series. All I can remember about it is that it was a children’s TV series about some monsters that came out of a swamp at night and no it was not Dr Who I know its super vague but its all I have sorry.

Thanking you in advance Steve Williams

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It may from a TV series of 1990 named 'Swamp Thing'.

Date added: 21st July 2006

Updated: 6th January 2008

been trying to think of the name of a film and its driving me mad! It was about a little Irish boy who thought he was a martian. He was part of a working class family and he wanted to move to Mars. It was called something like "The boy from Mars" and it was shown on the movie channels a lot during the late 90's. Any help would be much appreciated!

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I think this was probably 'The Boy from Mercury' (1997). James Hickey played the boy. It was commercially available on tape and might turn up in Amazon Traders www.amazon.co.uk or eBay.

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Date added: 4th January 2008	Updated: N/A
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone can remember this TV programme, but I would be extremely grateful if someone does. I believe it was shown on BBC TV either in the late 1970's or more likely the early 1980's and it was about an hour long. I'm not sure but I think it was shown after 22.00 and I seem to remember it being on one Christmas. It was about an oldish man living alone in a cottage/croft, possibly in Scotland who was visited by a young woman. I can't remember the details of the story, but the main point of the story was that when the woman left, the man discovered she had died some time before and was therefore a ghost. I would love to know more about the programme, not least because it was a favourite of my late Grandfather. Thank you very much. Jeremy
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Date added: 18th December 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, please can you help me? I am trying to find out the name or possibly a copy of a film/tv play from the late 70's about a women who murdered her husband, so she could you go off with her lover and her dead husbands money. She was sent to prison and became friends with the undertaker who made the coffins there. She threatened him about something, and he told her when she heard the next bell ring (this was to let the prisoners know someone had died) to go and get into the coffin of the person who had died, and he would buried her and dig her up again after the service was over. She did this, but while she was waiting for him to turn up she lit a match and found out that the body in the coffin was him, the undertaker, and it ended by her screaming. This may have been a Hammer House of Horror or Alfred Hitchcock production, but I can't find it anywhere. Many Thanks Elaine
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Date added: 18th December 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, I'm hoping you can help me. I'm trying to find a cartoon I watched in the 90's. I can't remember much about it. It was set in a post-apocalyptic world. Very barren. The man figure in it was a blue man who was looking for his family or others like him. He rode around on a silver surf board. I think the name of the show was blue but I'm not sure. Thanks
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Date added: 18th December 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi there This is just to stop me going mad. I can remember a children's TV series in the 70's (at least that was when it screened in the UK) which starred a sea lion, and was based either in Florida or the Caribbean. I can't for the life of me remember either the name of the series or the sea lion. Can anyone help? Many thanks Derek Hogg
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Date added: 8th December 2007

Updated: N/A

I was small when I used to watch this series in the 90's and I don't remember the name. it was a sci-fi adventurous series for kids then. it had something to do with a crystal shaped time machine or it was a machine to travel at light-speed (don't clearly remember) and it was mostly travelled by kids. they had a kind of crown on their head to actually run the machine( that's what I remember) ... it could be an American sitcom though... I was pretty old then.. so I hope u can help me to find that series with this limited info.

thanks
Ridwan

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Aquila?

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Date added: 8th December 2007	Updated: N/A
When I was a kid in the 60’s, I used to watch a program, I don’t remember the name but one of the key characters was an African chief called Big Chief Bimbo, he used to sing big chief Bimbo getting very crossed, buwelackaweee! He was a character in an Animated Puppet show. Please tell me I ma not going crazy, what was it called?
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Out of This World

Date added: 10th September 2007

Updated: 8th December 2007

Hi im trying to find a programme, early 90s about a girl who could freeze time when she put her fingers together, and she spoke to her dad who was an alien through a triangle white box.

Had the song ’ would you like to swing on a star as its soundtrack’

Cheers

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Out of This World

The TV series "Out of this world" seems to have been
released on DVD in the US:

http://www.dvdavenue.tv/movie/comedy/out_of_this_world.html

Johnson and Friends

Date added: 10th September 2007

Updated: 8th December 2007

Any episode will do from this series as me and a friend cannot for the life of us remember the name of the programme, but are totally convinced we did not make it up :)

What we can remember of it it that was set under a bed and included characters such as a hot water bottle, who, I might add, walked in a very creepy manner! and also who I remember to be a girl, an elephant, a talking accordian and my friend also remembers a toy truck.

Our guess to the years that it was broadcast but have been around 93-94, but we cannot be totally sure.

If you could get back to us with any information, and (possibly) an episode we would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks!!!

Rebecca and Donna

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Pretty sure this one is "Johnson and Friends"

There's an entire episode on Youtube at the moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgIq9EGpPE

Date added: 13th November 2007

Updated: 8th December 2007

Hi, I have a seemingly impossible request. I've been searching for the title of a children's drama from the late 60's or early 70's, it involved a couple of children who are searching for someone. They find clues to his identity in the form of jigsaw pieces which, when finally put together, show his face. That's all I can remember. Can anyone help????

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Just a possibility – Dr Who (Patrick Troughton) does this in series The Mind Robbers (1967). His 2 travelling companions aren’t children of course, but children do appear in another scene.This is available on DVD

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Date added: 8th December 2007	Updated: N/A
Hello all I wonder if anybody remembers a British children's play about a little mixed-race boy who finds a stray cat in an old oven in a garage. It was aired over Christmas in the very early 70s and I remember crying when these bigger boys stole the lad's transistor radio and then threw the puss under a van! The cat survived thank god and somebody bought it to him with a bandaged paw at the end. The play had very little dialogue and I remember the music Jingle Bells playing. Hope you can help me, beginning to think I imagined it! Love Lisa X
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Date added: 8th December 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi there I am trying to remember the name of a British TV show or episode that aired on the ABC (Australia) in the late 80's or early 90's. The show played through the day and it was about a family who moved to house that was haunted. It wasn't a typical haunting - the ghost was a crying woman and she could be heard through the electrical equipment in the house. Her face could be seen on the family TV and in the end the family discovered it was their power generator that was haunted. I seem to remember seeing other shows that told scary stories so it may have been part of a ghost story series. Another show which I think was in the series told the story of an animal that sought revenge on a hunter who cut off its tail. I remember watching these shows as a child with my mother and when I ask her about she calls it "Middle English" but other internet searches turn up nothing for that. Thanks.
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Friends In Space
Date added: 13th November 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, I am trying to locate an ITV Playhouse play called "Friends In Space". It was a comedy about a UFO Spotter who had a alien stashed away in his house and he shows the alien to other UFO spotters I think it was from 1979/80. As I remember being 9 years old when I saw it. Many Thanks
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That Night That Panicked America
Date added: 13th November 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, I’m looking for a television movie called “that night that panicked America”. It’s about the drama that took place after the radio broadcast of Orson Welles The war of the worlds. Where listeners took the broadcast for real, and thought that the earth was really taken over by Martians. Sincerely yours, Helma
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Date added: 13th November 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, I'm looking for a tv miniseries from the late 1990's on satellite TV (Sky One I think, but im not too sure)...it starred some teenagers travelling in a spaceship of some kind looking for some crystals. I don't quite remember why, but I do remember some alien worms that ate metal and attempted to eat the ship, and there was an ally who actually turned out to be a bad guy at the end. I know it sounds remarkably like the Doctor Who Key to Time series, but its something completely different. I seem to remember some kind of toytown also being involved, but I'm not to sure about that... I would really appreciate it if you can help...its been driving me mad for ages! Thanks a lot Rob McGough
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Date added: 16th September 2007

Updated: 13th November 2007

i'm looking for an english children's t.v. show in the early eighties.

a boy and girl are able to travel through different dimensions and in some episodes they are able to freeze time around them.

at least that happened in a climactic episode.

the kids always seemed to be helped by an adult or a couple of adults while at the same time being hounded through different dimensions by some evil guy.

i'm pretty sure it was on' i.t.v.' and it wasn't the show 'timeslip'.

i think the beginning of the show was the stars against the night sky with a short explanation of the time/dimension travel rules.

please help - it's been driving me crazy.

all the best,
linus.

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I think it was sapphire and steel with Joanna Lumley and the blond haired guy from the man from uncle. David Mccallum?

Noah's Castle
Date added: 29th July 2007	Updated: 13th November 2007
Hi I am trying to remeber the name of a late 60's/early 70's children's tv drama, set in post apocaliptic Britain under martial law. The opening and closing titles were of scenes of gun carrying troops running towards the sun, in slow motion (I think). I recall that it had a very edgy theme tune that set the tone for the series. Thanks Sue
It was called NOAH'S CASTLE.i think it was 1975. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197174/

Elidor

Date added: 2nd June 2007

Updated: 13th November 2007

Hello,
I'm wondering if you can help me find the name of a children's drama shown in the early 90's.
I remember there were a couple of children who kicked a football into a neglected church and broke a window. They ventured inside to retrieve it, and whenever they touched a pillar or wall, there would be a simultaneous shot of their finger-marks appearing in a rock in a field in another world.
I also remember a black knight who appeared in the 'other' world. I know it's not much to go on but it's all I can remember. This has been bugging me for ages!
Thanks!

Ana

The programme you remember was a children's BBC adapation of Alan Garner's book 'Elidor'.

Complete series found!

The Lost Islands
Date added: 30th August 2005	Updated: 13th November 2007
Hi I am looking for a children's series, i think from the 70's called lost island ???? some children ship wrecked and a mysterious figure called "q" I think??? any ideas where i can get this on DVD would be great.
Complete Series found.

Date added: 29th July 2007

Updated: 13th November 2007

Hi there! I remember a programme must have been late 70's early 80's. There was a group of kids on a quest and it had a medieval slant. I think there was magic, the main thing I remember was the white knight, who appeared at moments of great danger and shone at night. Could someone please help? What is the name of the series and could I get my hands on it now?

Carla

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Not sure but your description reminds me of a series i saw at school c 1984 DARK TOWERS. Hope this is the one.

Last of the Mohicans
Date added: 12th March 2007	Updated: 13th November 2007
I’m after any info on a series from my childhood. In the early 70’s I think it was the BBC that ran a series of the Last of the Mohicans. There is info about this on the web but I have never tracked down any episodes on video Help on any of these would be appreciated Richard
Response The Last of The Mohicans starring Phillip Madoc is available on a region one dvd on e-bay and also Amazon.com if this is of any use.

Dating the Enemy
Date added: 16th September 2007	Updated: N/A
Hi, I am looking to get hold of a copy of an epsiode from 'Dating the Enemy', broadcast on ITV within the past year. The episode featured a glamour model type southern girl, being matched with a northern DJ (Leeds, I think) Can anyone please help? Vicki
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Come Back Lucy

Date added: 13th January 2006

Updated: 16th September 2007

Hi,

I am looking for a childrens series from the late 70"s. It was called come back Lucy. It was based on a novel by Pam Sykes.

It was about a girl called Lucy who goes to stay with her Aunt. Everytime she looks in a mirror, or a anywhere she would expect to see her reflection, she would see a ghost of a girl called Alice looking back at her. One bit that sticks in my mind is when she tries to walk across a frozen pond, but the ice breaks and she sees the girls face in the reflection.

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Unfortunately, Come Back Lucy is not available on either video or DVD. I have made my own enquiries with ITV and they tell me that may be possible to purchase from them copies of the master tape, for £100 per episode; there were 6 episodes in total so it would cost £600 in all.

Come Back Lucy

Date added: 28th April 2007

Updated: 16th September 2007

This is a long shot as my memory is very hazy on this. I remember a Children's TV series from the mid to late 1970's. It involved a young girl approximately 10 years of age and there was a female ghost in her attic. The ghost was roughly the same age as she was, but wore old fashioned clothing, and I think there was a rocking horse in the attic. I remember the ghost girl was a bit malicious. I seem to remember her kicking or throwing the girl out of the top window...

I don't remember much about it, and I've been racking my brain for years and then came across your site. If anyone knows what the programme was called I'd be very grate. I think it was on about the same timescale as Children of the stones...

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Scully

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The programme you mention is called "Come Back Lucy" and was shown in 1978. It starred Emma Bakhl as Lucy. The ghost was named Alice. It is based on the book of the same name by Pamela Sykes. Unfortunately, it cannot be obtained on either video or DVD. I am myself very keen to see it again and a couple of years ago made enquiries of ITV who informed me that it may be possible to purchase a copy of the series taken from the master tape but that it would be at a cost of £100 per episode; there were 6 episodes in all bringing the cost to a grand total of £600. It would be so much easier (and cheaper) if they released the DVD! There have been so many enquiries about this particular series that I am sure there would be a lot of interest in it. I think there should be a campaign launched to get it released!