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Just about every culture in the World has a Flood Legend but the most well known must be the Biblical account in the book of Genesis. Even people with little or no religious education have heard of Noah and his building of the Arc, the animals going in two by two and the great flood that destroyed mankind. With material like this to work from Noah should have been an epic along the lines of The Ten Commandments or Ben Hur, what we got was The Poseidon Adventure meets Transformers. Personally I think the filmmakers should have stuck to the Biblical account and, because the story and its characters is already so rich, they could have crammed it full of special effects and made it a movie to remember, instead of one so easy to forget.

I remember watching this series avidly as a schoolboy and I was saddened to learn no copy of it remains. Although filmed entirely in the studio the story line about a group of settlers defending their home in 18th century Canada was so good that the wobbly trees and fake log cabin were easily ignored after all we had much less sophisticated tastes compared to the youngsters of today. We loved the musket flashes and the smoke and the tomahawks and bows and arrows, all brilliant stuff for us boys. Filmed and broadcast in black and white to our twelve inch, 405 line televisions the visual quality was not good but we could forgive all that back in the fifties. TV for the masses had yet to arrive in the UK and my Mum often gave "tea" to friends who had no television of their own and who came to our house to watch. Great stuff and a shame no copy survives.