Flambards (TV series)

Flambards
Flambards the complete collection DVD cover
GenrePeriod Drama[1][2]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes13
Production
Production companyYorkshire Television[3][4]
Original release
NetworkITV
Release1979 (1979)[5]
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Flambards is a television series of 13 episodes which was broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1979 on ITV[6][7] and in the United States in 1980. The series was based on the three Flambards novels of English author K. M. Peyton.

The series is set from 1909 to 1918 (World War I is still being fought at the end) and tells how the teenage heroine, the orphaned heiress Christina Parsons (Christine McKenna), comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished Essex estate owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell (Edward Judd), and his two sons, Mark (Steven Grives) and Will Russell (Alan Parnaby). Other cast members included Sebastian Abineri as Dick Wright, Anton Diffring as Mr Dermott, Rosalie Williams as Mary and Frank Mills as Fowler.[8]

Four episodes were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark,[9] and four others by Michael Ferguson.[10]

In 1980 Flambards was broadcast on American television by PBS who cut the series from 13 episodes to 12 by combining the first two episodes into one. PBS also added narration to the end and beginnings of episodes informing viewers of the events which had been affected by the cuts. In the late 1980s Flambards was shown on the A&E cable network in its full 13 episodes, but heavily commercial-edited.[11]

  1. ^ ""Flying Dreams" Linda's Flambards Page". flambards.flyingdreams.org. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  2. ^ Webmaster. "Flambards | Nostalgia Central". Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Sarah Todd: Horsey tales brought to mind by end of a Sunday TV institution". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  4. ^ Ferguson, Michael; Clark, Lawrence Gordon; Lewis, Leonard; Duffell, Peter (31 July 2006), Flambards: The Complete Series, Network, retrieved 3 October 2019
  5. ^ "Flambards (TV series) (1979)". BFI. Retrieved 3 October 2019.[dead link]
  6. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Plater, Alan (1935-2010) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Flambards". www.itvstudios.com. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  8. ^ ""Flambards" (1979)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  9. ^ "Lawrence Gordon Clark". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  10. ^ "Michael Ferguson (I)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  11. ^ ""Flying Dreams" Linda's Flambards Page". flambards.flyingdreams.org. Retrieved 26 July 2010.