Aquila (TV series)

Aquila
Aquila's intertitle
GenreChildren's television series
Created byAndrew Norriss
Directed byDavid Bell
StarringBen Brooks [1]
Craig Vye
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time20–25 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC
Release2 December 1997 (1997-12-02) –
17 December 1998 (1998-12-17)
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Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998.[2] An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. The first series was based on the 1997 book Aquila by British author Andrew Norriss. The second series was novelised and published in 2010.

  1. ^ Williams, Roy (2005). Little sweet thing. Internet Archive. London : Methuen Drama. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-413-77502-3.
  2. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 4 December 1997. Retrieved 6 February 2024.