UK / ITV – Carlton / 1×120 minute episodes / Broadcast Sunday 23 April 2000 at 8.00pm
Writer: Simon Nye / Novel: E. Nesbit / Music: Simon Lacey / Costume: Howard Burden / Design: Tim Hutchinson / Camera: John Daly / Executive Producer: Jonathan Powell / Producer: Charles Elton / Director: Catherine Morshead
Period drama. In 1905, following the imprisoning of their father on trumped up spy charges, a trio of siblings move to to the country with their mother and become involved with the goings on at their local railway station.
Jenny Agutter who played the mum in this played the role of Bobbie in the much loved 1970 Lionel Jeffries cinema version as well as the 1968 TV version, see above for details of that.
cast
JENNY AGUTTER as Mother
GREGOR FISHER as Perks
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH as Old Gentleman
MICHAEL KITCHEN as Father
DAVID BAMBER as De Forrest
JEMIMA ROOPER as Bobbie
CLARE THOMAS as Phyllis
VALERIE MINIFIE as Cook
CLIVE RUSSELL as Station Master
SOPHIE THOMPSON as Mrs Perks
PAUL TRUSSELL as Fireman
MELANIE CLARK PULLEN as Ruth
GEORGIE GLEN as Aunt Glen
