Another "do you know the name of..." - scary children's tv show - 80s

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Ok. My memory of this tv show is hazy, as it scared the daylights out of me, so I have obviously blanked it from my memory...

It frightened me like The Owl Service and Chocky...

So, the 2 scenes I remember are:

• a girl is possessed (in some way) by the spirit of another girl who is somehow lost in time... She's been saying the "name" of this girl, but no-one understands, until she happens to be in a greenhouse (or something) and the window is steamed up; she writes the word she's been saying: and it's a girl's name, said/written backwards, which appears as a real name to the children standing outside.

• the children are in a church, and it's coming up to some critical time when the girl trapped in time is going to be released (?), and a huge bell falls from the tower onto the children - or perhaps just the girl? - and when it is removed, they're/she's gone.

Like I say, my memory of this is really poor, but these two scenes have stuck with me forever.

Help me! I know there must be someone out there who knows what I'm talking about... I need to purge myself of these scary memories!

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So, those of you who remember the film: the bell bit was in The Watcher..., right? Or did I import that memory from somewhere else?

Thanks for the link, magic!

ahhh! re: watcher in the woods... Lynn Holly Johnson - do you remmeber Ice Castles?

Ahh you need: TV Cream

I was just gonna say the watcher in the woods. It was a film though, not a tv series. Yes, Lynn Holly Johnson! She was in one of the Bond films too!

Yes, the bell bit was in the film you are quite right!

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Oh im going to have to look up the Owl Service that rings a bell with me - DS is getting to the age where hes starting to like real stories iykwim.

I can remember being seriously freaked by Children of the Stones.

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Thanks, wintera!

Enough with the links, already, magic... I need to get some sleep eventually!

Ok, now I'm remembering another tv show (I think) - set in the past - possibly medieval? - about children, maybe gypsy children, and at some point they claim asylum in a church...

I spent some time trying to find an old 70/80's programme with the haunting song ' midnight is not a moment midnight is a place'. ( actually called midnight is a place starring Simon Gipps Kent, who was also in Noahs castle and the tomorrow people) I came across a few really good sights and blogs with links whilst I was searching. I cound loads I had forgotten about like the phoenix and the carpet and Kind of the castle, which you probably wont remember and toms midnight garden.

I've posted before about a vague memory I have of a book series that I read a primary school (late 70s/early 80s) and no one has a clue...

There was a child, boy I think and he had a flask/bag that glowed sliver blue. There were stump folk/people - tree stumps that could walk and were really scary. There may have also been horses/magic horses.

It was in soft thin paperbacks like ORT magic key series with good illustrations.

It is one of those memories that the harder I try to remember the more it slips away.

sites even

That does ring a bell marmaduke but cant help you with a title.

I may have to get some of the Alan Garner books for my son, im just hoping they arent as dated as the Enid Blyton ones were (lol at magic faraway tree)

I remember watching the Phoenix & the carpet on Sunday afternoons.

this freaked me so much I couldnt go past Stonehenge or Avebury for years without getting goosebumps!

Ohh Wombat, pleeeaase try to remember it has been driving me insane for years!

I read obsessively so chances are, specially if it had talking tree stumps and/or unicorns....I read it. Tried googling but nothing came up.

I think I've found it, cannot believe it!! I was an obsessive reader, my DD has inherited the gene - I can see why it drove my DM bonkers.

Tim and the hidden people.

middle pic, boy on broomstick

The pic is a link to a website which is not working but having had a bit of a look around, I really think this is it - although on one website the books were selling for ££££.

Ohh just watched the clip, why oh why - no sleep for me!

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I think the series with alien boy is the one I watched at school which terrified me. Can't remember storyline but there were 2 aliens (man and boy) they were blue with white hair and couldn't talk (were very impassive) they wrote a special language that turned out to be backwards mirror writing.
It scared the life out of me and gave me nightmares, to the point my mum wanted to ask if I could sit in another room whist the class watched it - obviously I begged her not to and suffered the nightmares rather than the shame!

Minty in Moondial wasn't Julia Sawalha, it was another young actress called Siri Neal - see here:

Moondial

Ah Marmaduke here you go then Hope they are more successful than the Enid Blyton (I may be immature but I couldnt get past Dick & Fanny and quite frankly refused to let the children think girls did housework while boys were in the garden!!)

THANK YOU! I have been trying to remember the title of Children Of The Stones for years! without success...I can die happy knowing that piece of info now...

Thanks Wombat dick and fanny makes me snigger now in a way that it never did when I was 7.

Solo, I have been trying to remember the series for years. Am now going to try to track some down for the DC.

This thread has full series list

at the bottom

I know Marmaduke! it's very exciting to know the name of it now, but I wonder if it'd actually be exciting to watch it now as a 40+ year old . i have my doubts as I kind of expect so much more from science fiction these days. I used to love Star Trek when I was a kid, but when I see the first series nowadays, it seems so plastic and pretend iyswim. T'is sad...