The Owl Service Main Titles

The titles and a recap from the intense teenage supernatural series "The Owl Service".

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Owl
• Service
• Alan
• Garner
• Granada

[empanzee]

Do you have any full episodes of the Owl Service? I'm desperate to see more..

[gazhack]

@empanzee I'm not able to upload any, but the series is available on DVD from Network Video.

[scottytrotter]

Does anyone remember Red Shift, also by Alan Garner? Great Sunday afternoon viewing. All these progs were great because they were all so intriguing. At the end of every episode you thought "What the hell was that all about?" and then you had to wait a whole week for the next part. And, of course, you had to make sure that you were in to see it because it wasn't repeated ad nauseam (like today's stuff) and you had no means to record TV.

[gazhack]

@scottytrotter I remember Red Shift. An intriguing idea but personally I found it really depressing by the end. Still Lesley Dunlop was cute as the modern day girlfriend.

[mikamadperson]

"unknown to them, margaret has borrowed rogers binoculars" What? its a bit random..

[gazhack]

Yes out of context it sounds odd. What it led into after the recap was that her mum has been spying on them and tries to end of their relationship.

[2206411411]

For something as early as 1968, from a company as small as Granada was at the time, this is truly amazing. Granada has always been known for pushing the limits of drama, and Alan Garner's works for children were (and still are) vastly more intellectual than mainstream fare. When television executives used to talk of people having "golden memories" of long-ago productions, they relied heavily on the fact that few people had the means to compare television of then with now. This is wonderful.

[kickham]

This used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. It was '68 and in the late Sunday afternnon slot before Stars on Sunday. I think Catweasle was in this slot the following year. I remember vividly the scene where Alison lowers the book she is reading and her face is covered in the Owl motiff from the plates. Shiver my timbers !!!!

[empanzee]

@gazhack

Thanks! I'll look for it now :))

[deanwhitbread]

Alan Garner - one of the best post war authors. Regardless of his readership being supposedly children his books crackle with ideas and emotions. Wonderful writing.

[blackdanter]

@fabunova Thanks for that, will look it up as I'd love to see it again. :O)

[fabunova]

@blackdanter You might be thinking of The Clifton House Mystery, another impressive kid's TV series, and it's on you tube! :-)

[zedster911]

twas a weird TV series... but I watched it intensly

[DaveyC95]

@scottytrotter I have read the book of this last year..But my favourites by Alan Garner were The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, I know that part of Cheshire the two books were set in well, and Granada, my region,were going to adapt The Weirdstone of Brisingamen for television around early 1989 but didn't, I do not know why..As a six year old back then it would have been great.

[sissors66]

its like watching that videotape from the ring