The Famous Five Musical is best viewed in one go, something that Youtube will not as yet allow. This musical is now long since deleted on DVD and VHS, although there are many copies available on Ebay. My VHS copy cost less than £4.00, including postage. It is certainly a very pleasing adaptation, but it did take me a while to adjust to the concept of a singing George! (I may have already mentioned this elsewhere) Swimming, sailing, fishing, and climbing to the same ability level as a boy is fine, but singing?Julie2owlsdene wrote:I've just started to watch this on You Tube, posted there by Petermax. (Thanks for that Petermax) it's in 8 parts and I'm up to part 5. It's really very good surprisingly.
The mispelling of Kirrin Cottage as "Kirren" is a careless error that also took place in a few episodes of the 1970's Famous Five series, is it really so difficult to spell things as they are in the books?
The pre-war setting is a nice touch despite the fact that the first Famous Five book was published in 1942. None of the Five books published during the war years referred to any armed conflict. Enid Blyton throughout all 21 books portrayed the sort of carefree unsupervised childhood that just may have been possible prior to 1939.
Carefree childhood? We will conveniently overlook the fact that the Five did in fact have fairly frequent dangerous encounters with various members of the criminal fraternity and travelling community!