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Children's period
drama serial. During the second world war Carrie and her brother Nick are
evacuated to Wales.
REGULAR
CAST
JULIET WALEY as
Carrie / ANDREW TINNEY as Nick / TIM COWARD as Albert / AVRIL ELGAR as Lou Evans
/ AUBREY RICHARDS as Samuel Evans / ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY as Hepzibah /
MATTHEW GUINNESS as Mr Johnny
PRODUCTION
DETAILS
Writer: Marilyn Fox / Novel:
Nina Bawden / Executive Producer: Anna Home / Costume: George Ward
/ Camera: Eugene Carr / Design: David Crozier / Director:
Paul Stone
Railway locations by permission
of the Severn Valley Railway.
UK / BBC1 / 5x25m-e / 1974
ONE
FIVE PART SERIAL
1.
EPISODE ONE
Carrie and her brother Nick are
amongst a number of evacuees sent to Wales to escape the worst ravages of the
second world war. Carrie makes friends with a boy called Albert Sandwich, Carrie
and Nick are taken in by fussy shopkeeper Albert Evans and his sister Lou.
Albert, meanwhile, goes to stay with wealthy but strange elderly Mrs Gotobed who
is also a sister of Mr Evans.
With:- VALERIE GEORGESON as Miss
Fazackerly / VALMAI JONES as Lady in Hall
2.
EPISODE TWO
Visiting Albert at Mrs Gotobed's
home called Druid's Bottom Carrie and Nick meet the backward but kindly Mr
Johnny and housekeeper Hepzibah.
With:- PATSY SMART as Mrs Gotobed
3.EPISODE
THREE
Mr Evans doesn't like Carrie and
Nick spending time at Druid's Bottom, and he doesn't like his sister seeing a
Yank soldier. Evans cheers up when his son Frederick comes home on leave. Mrs
Gotobed dies making arrangements in her will for Mr Johnny and Hepzibah to stay
in the house, much to the chagrin of Evans.
With:- DAVID CARGILL as Major
Harper / SEAN ARNOLD as Frederick / PATSY SMART as Mrs Gotobed
4.
EPISODE FOUR
Carrie and Albert are convinced
that old Evans has taken the will of Mrs Gotobed to get his hands on the house
but they can't prove it. Carrie and Nick's mother sends a letter to say they
will be moving up to Scotland with her (so they can be near their sailor
Father).
With:- ELVET DAVID as Minister
5.
EPISODE FIVE
With Carrie and Nick making
preparations to leave Auntie Lou suprises everyone by running off to marry her
Yank soldier. On the train home Carrie and Nick see what they think is Druid's
Bottom on fire. 30 years later Carrie returns to Druid's Bottom with her two
children and is amazed to find Hepzibah and Mr Johnny and Hepzibah still living
there.
With:- SHIRLEY DIXON as Carrie
Senior / CASSIE STONE as Carrie's Daughter / NICHOLAS SYMONS as Carrie's Son
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