Who played Dick in the television adaptation of the series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton?
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Paul Child (actor) Paul Child (1981) is an English actor and musician He is best known for playing the part of Dick in the 1996/7 Television adaptation of Enid Blytons' The Famous Five.
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The Famous Five (novel series) The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, "Five on a Treasure Island", was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina (George) – and George's dog Timmy.
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Dickon (novel) Dickon is a 1929 novel by Marjorie Bowen about King Richard III of England. It was one of many historical fiction works she wrote in her life.
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Pixie Davies Pixie Davies is an English child actress who has starred in many notable films and TV series, including "Roald Dahl's Esio Trot", "The Secret of Crickley Hall," "Humans", and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".
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Five Go Off in a Caravan Five Go Off In A Caravan is the fifth book in the Famous Five series by the British author, Enid Blyton and published by Hodder and Stoughton.
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Philip Franks Philip Franks (born 2 February 1956) is an English actor and theatre director, known to the public chiefly for his roles in British television series.
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Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953.
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Lost in Austen Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British television series for the ITV network, written by Guy Andrews as a fantasy adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. Amanda, a woman from modern London, enters the plot of the novel through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events disastrously.
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Earthfasts (TV series) Earthfasts is a BBC children's drama series based upon the 1966 book of the same title by William Mayne. It was filmed on location in Richmond and Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, and was aired in 1994.
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Nickolas Grace Nickolas Grace (born 21 November 1947) is an English actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited", and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series "Robin of Sherwood". Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in the 1990s British comedy series "Birds of a Feather".
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The Naughtiest Girl The Naughtiest Girl was a series of novels written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s–1950s. Unusually, they are set at a progressive boarding school rather than a traditional one. The school, Whyteleafe, bears a striking resemblance to the independent Suffolk boarding school, Summerhill. Anne Digby, author of the Trebizon series, has written some additional books in the series.
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Dick Hill (narrator) Dick Hill is an American audiobook narrator.
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The Ginger Tree (TV series) The Ginger Tree is a BBC's four-part TV adaptation, based on Oswald Wynd's novel of the same name, adapted by Christopher Hampton and directed by Anthony Garner and Morimasa Matsumoto. Originally aired on BBC1 from 26 November to 17 December 1989, starring Samantha Bond as Mary MacKenzie, Daisuke Ryu as Count Kentaro Kurihama and Adrian Rawlins as Captain Richard Collingsworth.
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Catch Me a Colobus Catch Me a Colobus was a television series narrated by Gerald Durrell, the well-known British naturalist and writer, which was shown on BBC children's television around 1967.
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Gillian Baverstock Gillian Mary Baverstock (née Pollock; 15 July 1931 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England – 24 June 2007 in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England) was a British author and elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock. She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life.
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Big Ears (character) Big Ears is a fictional character from Noddy series books by Enid Blyton. In "Noddy Goes to Toyland" he introduces himself as a brownie "or a sort of a hob, or hobgoblin". He explains that though he "hobnobbed" with Noddy who lived in Toytown, he lived in the "hilly, lumpy, bumpy part of town outside of town". He describes his ears as too big, and his striped trousers with the cap which was "either too pointy or not pointy enough". Together with his brother Little-Ears, he is the only non toy in Toyland and Noddy's helper and father-figure. He is described as having a white beard, red cap, blue jacket, red-and-white striped jumper and yellow-and-green trousers. His catchphrase is "You funny little Noddy!"
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Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure drama (with comedic elements) based loosely on the novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.
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Adaptations of Moby-Dick "Moby-Dick" is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville that describes the voyage of the whaleship "Pequod", led by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the whale Moby-Dick. There have been a number of adaptations of "Moby-Dick" in various media.
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Little Grey Rabbit Little Grey Rabbit is the lead character in an English classic series of children's books, written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Margaret Tempest except for the last five books, which were illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth.
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Richard Braine Richard Braine (born 1956) is a British television actor.
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Half Moon Investigations (TV series) Half Moon Investigations is a children's crime/comedy drama television series created by the BBC and based upon the novel of the same name by the author Eoin Colfer. It concerns a schoolboy, Fletcher Moon, who spends much of his spare time solving petty crimes around his school, St Jerome's. 13 episodes were first broadcast between January and March 2009. The series was filmed in and around a disused secondary school as well as a Centre for adults with special needs located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.
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Adventures in Wonderland Adventures in Wonderland is a live-action musical television series based on Walt Disney's animated "Alice in Wonderland". In the series, Alice (played by Elisabeth Harnois), was portrayed as a girl who can come and go from Wonderland simply by walking through her mirror (a reference to Wonderland's source material Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass").