The Ghost of Monk's Island
Sailing too far from shore, the Robinson children are marooned on a deserted Island. Their fight for survival is hampered by mysterious events, and the even more mysterious 'Ghost of Monk's Island'.
Michael Barnes
Jeremy Summers
Jeremy Summers
Jan Darnley-Smith
Anthony Marriott
Michael C. Fairall
Casts & Crew
Pierre Bedenes
Lucinda Jackson
Peter Bartlett
Robert Bartlett
Beryl Cooke
Conrad Phillips
Ivor Salter
Jerold Wells
Doel Luscombe
Also Directed by Jeremy Summers
The Ghost of Monk's Island Part One Unhappy Birthday
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970-71 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused works yard.
There is trouble a-plenty in store for the Corkhill clan in this video-only special. Series creator Phil Redmond has returned to pen a dramatic script which follows on from a weekend special.
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
A young boy's lucky t-shirt is transformed through a power surge and gives its wearer super-powers.
The Ghost of Monk's Island Part Three S.O.S.
Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States. It was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and the Italian broadcaster RAI and ran for 24 episodes.
Also Directed by Jan Darnley-Smith
The young inventors Dick and Jenny Brewster, build their own 'Hoverbug' and hope to win the race which has been organised for home-made Hovercraft, but their arch rivals, Charlie and Sydney, bend the rules by enlisting professional help and by employing devious means to sabotage the Hoverbug.
Hill plays a caterer who gets drunk on the job and proceeds to make a disaster of a middle class couple's dinner party.
Cousins raise an orphaned fawn.
Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Victorian schoolboy adventure. Freddie is sent away to a boarding school where he is very miserable and tries to escape in several instances. Finally the head of the school who made his life impossible is accused and taken away.
Jimpy (Dennis Waterman) leads a gang of kids as they attempt to beat another gang, no mattter how underhanded their tactics are.
Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.