Sid Waddell Bill MacIlwraith Gerry Andrewes Gloria Tors Stuart Douglass Barry Cockcroft Jeremy Burnham Michala Crees Anthony Couch
Directed by
Robert D. Cardona David Goldsmith David Millard
Starring
Peter Firth David Bradley Victor Winding Richard Gale David Smith James Hayter Philip Maskery John Ash Alan Guy Nicholas Pennell Veronica Hurst Moultrie Kelsall
Theme music composer
Sergei Prokofiev
Opening theme
Extract from the Classical Symphony
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
52
Production
Producers
Jess Yates Robert D. Cardona
Production locations
Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire
Running time
52 x 30 mins
Production company
Yorkshire Television
Original release
Network
ITV
Release
21 September 1969 (1969-09-21) – 17 June 1973 (1973-06-17)
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The Flaxton Boys is a British historical children's television series set in the West Riding of Yorkshire and covering a timespan of almost a century. The series was made by Yorkshire Television and was broadcast on ITV between 1969 and 1973, running for 4 series and 52 episodes, each of 30 minutes duration.
The Flaxton Boys had a number of different scriptwriters, was produced by Jess Yates and Robert D. Cardona, and directed mainly by Cardona (45 episodes). Each of the series was set in a different era, spanning the years 1854 to 1945/6.[1]
TheFlaxtonBoys is a British historical children's television series set in the West Riding of Yorkshire and covering a timespan of almost a century....
television programme TheFlaxtonBoys as Peter Weekes in series two, and starred as Terry Connor in the children's adventure serial The Jensen Code in 1973...
the middle of 1969, having starred in the first series of TheFlaxtonBoys as Archie Weekes and then the following year in the series Here Come the Double...
television programmes from the 1970s, with her first notable appearances including roles in Beryl's Lot, The History of Mr. Polly and The Spoils of War. She then...
(1971) The Persuaders! – (Episode: "Take Seven") (1971) Dixon of Dock Green – (Episode: "The Man from the Ministry") (1971) TheFlaxtonBoys (1971) New...
episodes of season 2 of TheFlaxtonBoys, a Yorkshire Television children's series set at Flaxton Hall in 1890. His last film was the 1970 Sammy Davis, Jr...
series TheFlaxtonBoys (1969–1973) used Ripley Castle as the fictional Flaxton Hall. It was used in the 1976 Disney film Escape from the Dark, as the home...
1958. In the 1970s, he was a primary writer for Hammer Films including for Dracula AD 1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires...
had past contacts in the industry. One of the adult actors and one of the child actors from TheFlaxtonBoys also came from the same school in Carleton...
appeared in repertory theatre. On television he appeared in The Saint, TheFlaxtonBoys, The Forsyte Saga as Michael Mont, and in six episodes of Doctor...
career known for writing the play The Ghost Train and later in life in the British television sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) as the elderly bumbling Private...
in the last two episodes of TheFlaxtonBoys (1973), where he plays the upper-class twit, Gerald Meder. In 1994, Melvin supplied the voice of the villain...
foreman Bill Riley in the UK television series The Brothers in the early 1970s. Before this, he starred as Frank Skinner in the 1970 cult sci-fi series...
of local news programme, Calendar. He also devised the ITV network children's series TheFlaxtonBoys a historical adventure series that ran for three years...
(1968–1973) TheFlaxtonBoys (1969–1973) On the Buses (1969–1973) Crime of Passion (1970–1973) ...And Mother Makes Three (1971–1973) The Fenn Street Gang...
He received his formal education at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whilst at RADA, he shared...
September TheFlaxtonBoys (1969–1973) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969–1970) The Secret Service (1969) Strange Report (1969–1970) 23 September – The Dustbinmen...
Anna Round the Bend Stepping Stones Stories of Snowy and Buttercup Buskers Teetime and Claudia The Big Bang The Book Tower TheFlaxtonBoysThe Giddy Game...
Copperfield (1956), Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar (1959), and Albert in TheFlaxtonBoys (1970). In his entry in Who's Who, Goolden wrote that he had played...
appearances, notably in TheFlaxtonBoys, playing Barnaby Sweet in the series set in 1890 (broadcast in 1970) and Benjamin Sweet in the two remaining series...
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