The Owl Service (1969)

Genre

fantasy television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three teenagers in a Welsh valley become entangled with a strange pattern of flowers that appears to summon an ancient, cursed love triangle. The series mixes a modern story with the legend of a woman turned into an owl.

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What happens

The Owl Service is an eight-part television series based on the fantasy novel of the same name by Alan Garner. Produced in 1969 and televised over the winter of 1969–1970, the series was remarkably bold in terms of production. It was the first fully scripted colour production by Granada Television and was filmed almost entirely on location at a time when almost all TV drama was studio-bound. It used editing techniques such as jump cuts to create a sense of disorientation and also to suggest that two time periods overlapped. For the series, the book was adapted in seven scripts (later stretched to eight) by Garner and was produced and directed by Peter Plummer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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