Sunday, October 30, 2011

Moving to Marlborough


Educational mini series, 4 episodes
-Year: 1983
-Year in film: 1982
-Country: Germany
-Who in bibs: Martina ~16, woman
-Available on DVD: no *
-I own: no
-Bib occurrence: low  
-Rating:  4/10 *      
-Rating: ****
-Comment: Sharlie Mc Gurk (pictured) in weird bibs. Backside simple suspenders (perhaps even selfmade and bib added later). White rope as a belt. Film brother Andreas, 14 yo (Christopher Humburg, son of editor Lothar Humburg) shown on pic top right on left with their film mother. He wears tight worn jeans. Probably nobody knows this mini series for learning English (and Britain's lifestyle and geography). This was my favourite school TV series in the late 80s. Pics showing scenes in Cologne but most scenes are set in Marlborough (UK) where they moved to after their dad's deadly accident. 4 episodes à 15 minutes.  I have to check all episodes again, but I think only this short scene with bibs. This series is very rare (no entry at IMDb) and was shown to German pupils on a VCR but also aired on TV (80s and 90s). VHS were only available for teachers and had to be deleteted after the school year. Some copies may still be availabe at libraries or educational institutes. However the complete series is hosted on a teacher's website (sadly in low resolution). Perfect series, but for those short bib scenes I can only rate 4. But perhaps someone likes it.

Update: Obviously first aired on TV in Jan/1983 by WDR (or even earlier, school year starting in Sept) and probably produced in 1982. (Was 1985). Working papers for students also made in 1982. Story by Stephen Speight (but I think not available as book). Maybe first used at schools in 1984 or 1985 (after testing and when all schools had a VCR). Directed by John Sichel. No entry on IMDb.

 https://biboverallsfilms.blogspot.com/2020/06/update-moving-to-marlborough-new-wiki.html

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