Ronald Pickup Prunella Scales and Don Henderson are among the cast of this fantasy adventure series with young actress Polly Grant giving an outstanding performance as a girl who sets out to save her family's farm with the help of a famous time-travelling ancestor. Adapted from the children s novel by Michael Morpurgo and directed by the BAFTA Award-winning Gavin Millar My Friend Walter originally screened in 1992 is available here for the first time on DVD. Bess Throckmorton a Devon farmer's daughter encounters an ancient bearded relative... and realises just how... ancient he is when he reveals that he is the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh! Sir Walter is determined to escape the Tower of London his prison for nearly four hundred years to return to the Devon farm of his youth - the only place he was ever truly happy. He wants to rediscover his family too and persuades Bess to take him home with her. On the family farm Sir Walter revisits the joys of his childhood; he also learns that the farm is now endangered by the covetous schemes of the horrible Borrowbill brothers - and devises a scheme of his own to restore the family fortunes while avenging his cruel fate. Unfortunately a mischievous spirit's idea of helping out isn't quite what Bess had in mind! [show more]
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The complete series of the children's fantasy adventure about a farmer's daughter whose efforts to save her farm are aided by a very famous ancestor. When Bess Throckmorton (Polly Grant) runs into an outlandishly dressed relative, she is taken aback when he claims to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh (Ronald Pickup). After agreeing to take him back to her Devon farm, where he had such happy boyhood memories, events take a magical turn as Sir Walter tries to stop the grasping Borrowbill brothers from taking over the farm.
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