| The Borrowers | |
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| Based on | The Borrowers The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton |
| Written by | Richard Carpenter |
| Directed by | John Henderson |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Howard Goodall |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Clive Tickner |
| Editor | David Yardley |
| Running time | 164 min. |
| Production company | Working Title Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 8 November 1992 |
| Related | |
| The Return of the Borrowers | |
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The Borrowers is a British TV miniseries first broadcast in 1992 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. The series is divided into six parts, and is adapted from the 1952 Carnegie Medal-winning first novel[1] and the second novel of author Mary Norton's The Borrowers series: The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield (1955). The series stars Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Callard and was directed by John Henderson. The series was named on the BFI's list of "100 Greatest British Television Programmes".[2]
Throughout the series, every episode (except the last one) ended on a cliffhanger. The series was followed by The Return of the Borrowers which aired in 1993, also on BBC2 and TNT.
Both series follow the Clocks, a family of tiny people who are forced to flee from their home under the floorboards in an old manor into the English countryside.
- ^ "The CILIP Carnegie Medal - Full List of Winners". Archived from the original on 30 April 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "bfi | Features | TV 100 List of Lists". bfi.org.uk. 30 November 2005. Retrieved 14 November 2023.