Advantages: An intelligent and mildy enjoyable children's series of old Disadvantages: Old-fashioned and with creaky production values
...the 'classic' TV programmes for children we watched when not running wild and unsupervised in the woods were all wonderful, original and groundbreaking, and that their modern equivalents are rubbish in comparison. The trouble is that most of these classics are now available on DVD and the temptation to revisit them, to eagerly span the misty divide, can be strong, sometimes overwhelming. _Children of the Stones_ was a seven-part children's drama ... ...a scientist and his teenage son as they moved to a small village where dad was going to carry out some scientific tests on the stone circle that surrounded the village and brainy son was going to help him. As the series progressed, the pair found themselves caught up in some strange cultish goings-on and decided to get to the bottom of it all by the appliance of science. The series has always been well thought-of and it even featured quite recently ...
Templar19 22.09.2009
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