The Flaxton Boys

The Flaxton Boys
Genre	Children's television
Written by	Sid Waddell Bill MacIlwraith Gerry Andrewes Gloria Tors Stuart Douglass Barry Cockcroft Jeremy Burnham Michala Crees Anthony Couch
Directed by	Robert D. Cardona David Goldsmith David Millard
Starring	Peter Firth David Bradley Victor Winding Richard Gale David Smith James Hayter Philip Maskery John Ash Alan Guy Nicholas Pennell Veronica Hurst Moultrie Kelsall
Theme music composer	Sergei Prokofiev
Opening theme	Extract from the Classical Symphony
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	52
Production
Producers	Jess Yates Robert D. Cardona
Production locations	Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire
Running time	52 x 30 mins
Production company	Yorkshire Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	21 September 1969 (1969-09-21) – 17 June 1973 (1973-06-17)
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The Flaxton Boys is a British historical children's television series set in the West Riding of Yorkshire and covering a timespan of almost a century. The series was made by Yorkshire Television and was broadcast on ITV between 1969 and 1973, running for 4 series and 52 episodes, each of 30 minutes duration.

The Flaxton Boys had a number of different scriptwriters, was produced by Jess Yates and Robert D. Cardona, and directed mainly by Cardona (45 episodes). Each of the series was set in a different era, spanning the years 1854 to 1945/6.^[1]