"Tom's Midnight Garden" (1974)

Episodes: All (3)

Year: 1974

Summary

When Tom Long's brother Peter gets measles, Tom is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly and reclusive landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious he is not allowed out to play, and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden. Here he meets another lonely child called Hatty, who is the only one who can see him. They have adventures which he gradually realises are taking place in the19th century. And each night when Tom visits, Hatty is a different age, chronologically out of sequence.

 

Episodes

Episode 1: The Clock Strikes Thirteen - Original Air Date—7 January 1974

Episode 2: Are You a Ghost? - Original Air Date—14 January 1974

Episode 3: Time No Longer - Original Air Date—21 January 1974

 

Cast

• Nicholas Bridge - Tom Long (3 episodes, 1974)

• Charles West - Uncle Alan Melbourne (3 episodes, 1974)

• Myvanwy Jenn - Aunt Gwen (3 episodes, 1974)

• Anne Ridler - Aunt Grace Melbourne (3 episodes, 1974)

• Adrienne Byrne - Hatty Melbourne (3 episodes, 1974)

• Diana Payan - Mrs. Byers (3 episodes, 1974)

• Margot MacAlaster - Mrs. Bartholomew (3 episodes, 1974)

• John Franklyn - Abel (3 episodes, 1974)