Grasshopper Island

I remember watching this as a kid. Can't remember much of it, just remember Charles Haltrey rowing a boat and three. It came out about the same time as catweazle. I know I enjoyed it but that's all I can remember unfortunately so haven't got much more to say about it so just thinking of stuff I can say to use up the six hundred characters required to be able to write this article. Oh well just over two hundred more characters to go, wait no its 152 now6. Wait a minute no its 121. Wow this is going fast just 93 now?! Actually it's just 60. Oh my word now I've just got twenty seven more to use up.

Like others here I saw this as a kid in the 70s, enjoying the escapist story set in a picturesque island setting, though not realising it was filmed in corsica (took some years before i discovered that england really ain't that sunny - thanks Grasshopper Island!)Saw the DVD recently & was relieved to see the magic was still there: unthreatening lazy day adventures in an improbable world where no one is worried about 3 kids running away from home. Just wonderful. But would the story still cut it today with kids raised in a world of computer games, rap videos & cellphones? I think it would, given that the themes of Great Escape and Fun-Without-Grownups are still as popular as ever - just look at the Harry Potter series. A good show for nostalgic middle-agers to watch with their kids.

Famous Five meets Arthur Ransome - that sort of thing. Not zany like the "Double Deckers"; in fact, probably the sort of thing that the Comic Strip sent up in the 80's.

But I was obviously the target demographic for this; I remember looking forward to it. Gentle, dreamy, and mysterious somehow. If I saw a copy, I'd buy it.

I confess I can't remember much about it, except Julian Orchard and Patricia Hayes - which should be enough of a recommendation. Also very early work from Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Never saw the last ep.

Never saw the last ep of "Danger Island", either.

I too remember this from the early 1970s. The dreamy idyll that it portrayed now seems indistinguishable from that of my own long-gone childhood. I was obsessed by the series,as I recall,in the same way I was by Dr Who and other escapist entertainments made primarily for kids. But this one had a different frisson,it was set in a foreign country,with cypresses and crickets and that kind of sun that you just don't see in England and which exerts a strange fascination upon us as a result. I still have the book which came out at the same time with a picture from the TV programme on the cover. It was never repeated on TV and in those pre-VCR days this gives it a magical kind of status for me!I notice it can be obtained on DVD now but I dare not rewatch it for fear of spoiling the beautiful if dim memories it still holds for me.