The Animals Of Farthing Wood

[Mr Betty Draper]

Awww I LOVED this show. My granny used to get the magazines for me, and we used to rush home from my walk in the park to see it. I loved the kestrel!

[That One]

HATED it. RUBBISH.

[VoR]

THE most traumatic 14 minutes of television EVER.

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WHY is this still not on DVD? :evil: Can I start a petition?

[Jonfessions]

BEST SHOW EVER

[Madison]

Weasel and Adder were my favourite.


More children television programmes should show characters dying. It can't be good for them inulating them from the concept of death.

[Jonfessions]

Especially animals. :D

[VoR]

I agree of course. Loads of people around my age have that hedgehog episode ingrained in their memories.

[VoR]

Adder was SUCH a lesbian, btw.

[Zodiac]

I was just looking at a character list on Wiki - had Colin Dann just come out of a particularly bitter relationship when he wrote this book?! Vitually every female other half gets murdered at some point (mrs rabbit, hare, vole, fieldmouse)

Also, all the high profile female characters in the tv series were actually male in the book

[Madison]

Did Owl ever die? I fucking hated her.

[JET BOY]

God those fucking hedgehogs was a big load of fuss about NOTHING

[Slave]

I thought the series where they reached the nature reserve was so much better; not only did some GOOD characters die (Badger :() but there was that sub-plot of one of Fox and Vixen's cubs running away and going on his own adventure - now THAT was heartbreaking (at the time).

[VoR]

Did Owl ever die? I fucking hated her.

Nope. She was one of the few original characters to survive right to the end.

I think only Fox, Vixen, Weasel, Mr Hare, Owl and Adder were still alive from the original 'cast' at the end of the third series.

I hated the way Kestrel just vanished with no explanation.

Another traumatic moment was the death of the baby fieldmice in series 1. GRIM.

Fox: "I wonder how the others are doing?"

*Cut to bloodstained bush with baby fieldmice impaled on the thorns*

[Lee]

I'm going to have to download this now. THANKS VoR :evil:

[Suomi]

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i don't know why I watched this but WHAT THE HELL? THIS was a children's tv programme? The whole pace of it is kind of eerie for a start, let alone the content

When I was younger the only two children's TV shows I watched were "Gulla Gulla Island" and the Swedish "Pippi Longstocking" . The former was about this Jamaican family living on an island who would randomely break into songs about how happy they were or, God forbid something bad should happen, about how everything was going to be alright

"Pippi Longstocking" in Swedish was actually properly funny, i still watch it sometimes now. There's one episode I have shown to English friends called "The Search for Spunk" where Pippi decides that she has to go and find some spunk, even though she doesn't know what it means or is. So you see her go into a candy store in town and ask for a quater pound of spunk, to which the shop assistant tells her that no such thing exists. Then Pippi decides that spunk might be a sort of sound made, perhaps from a steamboat, so you see her run into a nearby lake and start acting like a boat shouting "spunnnnnnkkkkkkkkk", "spunnnnkkkkkk".

Properly funny from an English perspective where we know full well what spunk means :beer:

I think these two TV shows moulded my personality greatly

[Suomi]

OH MY GOD

they actually dubbed over the episode in English later on

get ready to laugh Moopy, get READY TO LAUGH

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[VoR]

Farthing Wood was BRILLIANTLY dark. Loads of characters get killed off.

I take it you've never seen Watership Down either then? :D

[Lunar Foetus]

VoR, you really need to GET OVER IT now

[VoR]

MUSE OFF

[Suomi]

"my spunk hurts, lets go to the doctor"

[Pickle]

Is Pippi Longstockings the film version?

[Rita]

I have never even heard of it?

[Alex]

Farthing Wood was BRILLIANTLY dark. Loads of characters get killed off.

I take it you've never seen Watership Down either then? :D

VoR is such a sadist.

[Madison]

EBU productions rank

1. Eurovision Song Contest
2. Animals of Farthing Wood
3. Eurovision Dance Contest




666. Junior Eurovision Dance Contest