the TV show - 50's/60's feel (I'm guessing early-mid 60's) - black & white show about a bunch of kids (maybe 11/12 year olds?) in rural UK, lots of adventures at seaside, countryside - not especially lively or funny - great period piece though - old (slow) world feel / natural beauty of everyday places (repeats used to play on U.S. PBS around late 70's / early 80's).
the film (possibly BBC? TV movie?) - again late 50's to mid 60's black & white - about a high school or college teacher (wrongly) accused of groping or being involved with a student. declares innocence but is treated with contempt - including by wife who is going to leave him, UNTIL he pretends guilt, which is what everyone wanted all along - now he's considered a right proper rascal, wife admires him and not only stays but it rekindles her interest... society's corrupt, play along, etc. pretty classic!
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)
― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)
Don't remember the second.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:26 (twenty years ago)
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)
second one above in original post is Term Of Trial (1962) starring Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles and Terence Stamp. found this out thanks to assistance from someone nice at B.F.I.! great film by the way!
still haven't found first one, the show with the kids. it's not The Famous Five, but I do recommend the 70's version of that. also, not Swallows And Amazons, of which the 1973 version with Suzanna Hamilton is lovely: perfect kids adventure. I suspect the i.d. I'm looking for is 50's or 60's at latest.
― Paul, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)
Could this be the TV series?
Dead End Creekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vTc0FXQbM&hd=1
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)
not it but Children's Film Foundation is a great lead - even if they didn't produce the show, I might find it on a Youtube suggested/cross-reference. the show played often on PBS in U.S. sometime around 1980-1983, but I don't remember it having a strong plot, more like: kids hanging out and playing at or near the (quite rustic) seaside.
― Paul, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:30 (thirteen years ago)
There's a great CFF page here:http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=9252
― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)
The only other thing I could find was something called 'The Handy Gang'. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/40441
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 8 June 2012 08:09 (thirteen years ago)
Hi this may be a long shot, but was wondering if it would be possible to get a TV/Film identified with these vague details? It's something I remember seeing on TV when I was about 12, or 13. It's based in Scotland possibly set around the mid 80's maybe a little earlier and all I remember is it's about 3 teenage boys. One I think is set to join the Navy. There is also a confrontation with a teacher that one of them has, also seem to recall one of them drinks himself to death on a beach. IMDB is proving quite useless.
― Mr.Prologue, Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:52 (thirteen years ago)