- 13 hours ago
First broadcast 10th/17th/24th February 1988.
A teenage girl discovers a portal through time, and tries to help two children of the past.
Siri Neal - Minty
Joanna Dunham - Kate
Martin Sadler - John
Valerie Lush - Aunt Mary
Arthur Hewlett - World
Alison Rowley - Nurse
Tony Sands - Tom
Sue Lawley - Self - BBC Newsreader (archive footage)
Joe York - Maggs
Edward Jones - Guide
Helena Avellano - Sarah
Jacqueline Pearce - Miss Vole
Frank Tregear - Footman
Olwen Griffiths - Mrs Crump
Rosie Collins - Kitchen Maid
Sarah Doyle - Sister
John Abbott - Doctor
Kathleen Bidmead - 1st Lady
Pamela Barrie - 2nd Lady (as Pamela Barrie-Rose)
A teenage girl discovers a portal through time, and tries to help two children of the past.
Siri Neal - Minty
Joanna Dunham - Kate
Martin Sadler - John
Valerie Lush - Aunt Mary
Arthur Hewlett - World
Alison Rowley - Nurse
Tony Sands - Tom
Sue Lawley - Self - BBC Newsreader (archive footage)
Joe York - Maggs
Edward Jones - Guide
Helena Avellano - Sarah
Jacqueline Pearce - Miss Vole
Frank Tregear - Footman
Olwen Griffiths - Mrs Crump
Rosie Collins - Kitchen Maid
Sarah Doyle - Sister
John Abbott - Doctor
Kathleen Bidmead - 1st Lady
Pamela Barrie - 2nd Lady (as Pamela Barrie-Rose)
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00:00:28Closed Captioning by www.alien.co.uk
00:02:05Of course.
00:02:07It's Tuesday.
00:02:40I won't come in.
00:02:41Not tonight.
00:02:42OK.
00:02:43Bye.
00:02:43That's it.
00:02:44Have a good holiday.
00:02:45And drive carefully.
00:02:46Good night.
00:02:50Come on.
00:02:51Come on.
00:02:56Thank you, darling.
00:03:03We're managing all right, aren't we?
00:03:05Of course we are.
00:03:07Dad would be proud of us.
00:03:09I told him I'd look after you.
00:03:13Soon be the holidays.
00:03:15We've got to do something about you.
00:03:17Post me off somewhere like a parcel.
00:03:19That's an idea.
00:03:20Registered, of course.
00:03:21Of course.
00:03:23Wonder what it would cost.
00:03:25What stamp you'd have to stick on me.
00:03:30And where would you stick it?
00:03:32Somewhere appropriate.
00:03:34I'm sure you would.
00:03:36There is somewhere I could send you.
00:03:39Ten buck two.
00:03:41Belton.
00:03:42To Aunt Mary.
00:03:44Not really an aunt.
00:03:46Only your godmother.
00:03:47But you'd love it, though.
00:03:48Oh, Mum, no.
00:03:49You could help Aunt Mary in the shop.
00:03:51Aunt Mary.
00:03:52Ugh.
00:03:53I hardly even know her.
00:03:55And what about you?
00:03:56You'll be lonely.
00:03:58I shan't have time.
00:03:59Too much work.
00:04:00It won't be forever, Minty.
00:04:01I'll come up and see you whenever I can.
00:04:03I promise.
00:04:06Oh, Mum, I shall miss you.
00:04:13Sometimes I get frightened.
00:04:16Since Dad died.
00:04:19Things don't seem...
00:04:22...safe anymore.
00:04:28So there you are.
00:04:31I was beginning to wonder.
00:04:33Oh.
00:04:35If you haven't grown another three inches.
00:04:39Five centimeters, actually.
00:04:42I've been holding my breath to stop myself growing.
00:04:45I think it's working.
00:04:46Ah.
00:04:48Come along in.
00:04:49I've put her in the same room you used to have, Kate.
00:04:52Oh, I wish I'd like that.
00:04:54Well, take these up.
00:04:55You remember where it is?
00:04:57It's the door facing you at the top of the stairs.
00:05:04Look at that view.
00:05:06It's exactly as I remember it.
00:05:08There's church and everything.
00:05:11Oh.
00:05:11If yous don't move, Mum.
00:05:14Especially churches.
00:05:17Oh, isn't it lovely?
00:05:19Don't you think so, Minty?
00:05:21Yes, lovely.
00:05:28It's Aunt Mary's memory patchwork.
00:05:31She made it herself from scraps of dresses, curtains from the old days.
00:05:36They never threw anything away.
00:05:39Some of these must have belonged to her mother or her grandmother, even.
00:05:45So it's full of memories for her.
00:05:48You better be careful with it.
00:05:52I've always thought of Belton as a...
00:05:55as a happening kind of place.
00:05:59Happening?
00:06:00Oh, it was ages ago when I was little and stayed here.
00:06:04I always had the feeling...
00:06:06I don't know.
00:06:09As if...
00:06:11something...
00:06:12was happening.
00:06:14Ghosts, you mean?
00:06:16Haunted?
00:06:17That sort of thing.
00:06:20I never actually saw anything.
00:06:29But I shall.
00:06:31If there's anything here...
00:06:35I shall know.
00:06:38Nicer to have someone to cook for.
00:06:41Oh, you'll find she's ever such a good little eater.
00:06:43Not a bit fussy.
00:06:45Eat anything.
00:06:46Except fried worms and deadly nightshade.
00:06:49Oh, Mum, do you have to go today?
00:06:51Couldn't you stay?
00:06:53Just for a bit?
00:06:54Minty.
00:06:55You know I can't afford to take time off work.
00:06:59Why don't we go and look at the church?
00:07:01I don't think I've seen it since I was a child.
00:07:25Listen to this one, Minty.
00:07:27George, grandson of William Monks.
00:07:30Who died in infants.
00:08:03Minty.
00:08:06Do you feel cold?
00:08:09What, today?
00:08:11In this particular place, I mean.
00:08:15It's in the shade, I suppose.
00:08:18More than in the shade.
00:08:22The gardens are through there.
00:08:29Shall we go in?
00:08:33No, not today.
00:08:35A going away present.
00:08:38Oh, headphones!
00:08:40Thanks, Mum.
00:08:41I didn't think Aunt Mary would want to listen to your sounds from morning to night.
00:08:45Come to think of it, I'll rather miss them.
00:08:49Come on.
00:08:51It won't be forever.
00:08:53Bye-bye, sweetie.
00:08:55Bye.
00:08:56Now be good.
00:08:58Heh heh heh.
00:09:29Sorry, were you calling me? It's tea time.
00:09:33Sorry, I couldn't hear with you. Why not? I've been calling for ages.
00:09:37What are those? They're headphones.
00:09:41When I've got them on, I can hear the music, but nothing else. Oh.
00:09:47Well, it's tea time.
00:09:55Oh! That looks so nice.
00:09:57I made a jelly. Children like jellies.
00:10:01Oh, I love jelly, especially orange.
00:10:04You get started, dear.
00:10:096571?
00:10:11Yes.
00:10:22Oh, my God.
00:10:24Oh.
00:10:26Oh, yes.
00:10:29Yes.
00:10:32We're waiting here for you.
00:10:45What do you do?
00:10:47Is that wrong?
00:10:48Oh, dear.
00:10:49Oh, dear.
00:10:50Whatever should I say.
00:10:51Never in all my life.
00:10:53Is there something the matter, Andre?
00:10:54I was dreadful.
00:10:54Quite dreadful.
00:10:55I don't know.
00:10:56My mum.
00:10:57My mum.
00:10:58It's nothing to do with my mum.
00:10:59Yes.
00:11:00There's been an accident.
00:11:02Lorry, you say.
00:11:03Oh!
00:11:04Oh!
00:11:05Oh!
00:11:18That was John, a Mr. Benson from your mother's office.
00:11:23He's going around to the hospital now.
00:11:26Oh, I want to go.
00:11:28Can I go?
00:11:29Not for the moment, dear.
00:11:32They're taking tests and things.
00:11:35Head injuries, he said.
00:11:37Well, that's the main trouble, anyway.
00:11:39Well, why can he go and not me?
00:11:43Well, she's my mother.
00:11:45I want to go.
00:11:47Yes.
00:11:47I want to.
00:11:48Now, don't get yourself worked up, dear.
00:11:50He's coming here to fetch us both.
00:11:52For when?
00:11:52Oh, in about an hour, he said.
00:11:55Now, come along.
00:11:55It may not be as bad as all that.
00:11:58Now, why don't you watch television for a bit?
00:12:02Take your mind off things.
00:12:06What can't be cured must be patiently endured.
00:12:12Can I go out?
00:12:13Where?
00:12:14Where would you go?
00:12:16I don't know.
00:12:18Anywhere.
00:12:18Well, there's nowhere much to go.
00:12:22There's miles.
00:12:23Oh, but you mustn't go out of the village.
00:12:26Not on your own.
00:12:27Now, you must promise me that.
00:12:29I'm responsible for you.
00:12:31But I must do something.
00:12:33Why don't you go over to the house?
00:12:36See if world's there at the lodge.
00:12:39Nice here.
00:12:40It likes children.
00:12:41World.
00:12:43World.
00:12:44Well, Mr. World to you, I suppose.
00:12:48Right.
00:12:49You might as well be a beast tomorrow.
00:12:53Right.
00:12:54Right.
00:13:12hello there not one has been left behind are you no I live here for a while
00:13:21anyway with an aunt this is fire yes I've heard about you so what's your name
00:13:29minty minty Kane that's a funny old name minty short for a minter this is not to
00:13:38a penny no it's not that going to meet the children I dare say what children
00:13:49that'll be for you to find out you mean there are children living in that house
00:13:56I didn't think anyone lived there not anymore I didn't say anything about
00:14:01living you mean ghosts I didn't say that either but the moment I set eyes on you
00:14:10I knew that's her I thought that's the one to turn the key to set them free those
00:14:23children I've known for sixty year or more only in snatches mind glimpses and voices
00:14:31crying crying because they're locked up and begging and crying to be set free I can
00:14:40hear their voices in the wind sense them in the shadows and I fear aches sometimes because
00:14:52they're there begging me and I haven't got the key but now you've come yes I've come
00:15:28have you seen her is she all right I'll get my bag is she listen minty she's going to be
00:15:38all right
00:15:38I'm sure she is did she ask for me no you see she's not conscious yet you mean she didn't
00:15:47even know you
00:15:48were there no it's not as bad as it sounds it's only a couple of hours since the
00:15:54accident happened I didn't want her to go I asked her to stay
00:16:08the nurse will come and fetch us in a couple of minutes
00:16:17I think I ought to warn you minty what to expect
00:16:20I mean about I mean about the tubes and things
00:16:24you won't find it easy to see Kate to see your mother as you see in a way she won't
00:16:32be there
00:16:33just asleep no not just asleep much further away than that
00:16:37but you mustn't be frightened minty because she is still there of course she is it's marvelous what
00:16:43they can do these days and she'll probably know that you're there somewhere deep down
00:16:48I'm sure that can't be true not if she's still in a coma
00:16:53Mr. Benson
00:16:56I'll take you along
00:16:57I'll take you along with me Tina
00:16:58no
00:16:59no
00:17:00no
00:17:01no
00:17:04no
00:17:05no
00:17:05no
00:17:05no
00:17:05no
00:17:15no
00:17:16no
00:17:26it doesn't matter if you talk to her
00:17:29in fact it's good if you do but nothing too sudden
00:17:33what's your name?
00:17:35minty
00:17:36well don't be frightened minty talk to her if you want
00:17:43her name is Kate
00:17:45of course
00:17:58oh mum how could you?
00:18:09I think I want to go now
00:18:13I understand
00:18:15I know it all looks terrible
00:18:16it's not that
00:18:18well just say hello
00:18:20just say a few words
00:18:26hello Kate
00:18:30mum
00:18:33it's no good I can't
00:18:45come along dear
00:18:47you'll feel better if you have something to eat
00:18:50I won't
00:18:52not with mum
00:18:53come along minty
00:18:55look
00:18:56it's a beautiful day outside
00:19:00why don't you want to talk about it?
00:19:03well there's no point
00:19:05no sense in getting morbid
00:19:07but I want to talk about it
00:19:10look
00:19:11when dad died
00:19:13mum said we were to talk about it all we wanted
00:19:17and we did
00:19:19sometimes it made us cry
00:19:22but it always got less and less bad
00:19:28it'll be a long morning for you
00:19:32I think I'll go and explore the gardens
00:19:35the world said I could go over there whenever I wanted
00:19:37if you're going to the gardens
00:19:39will you post those letters for me?
00:19:42okay
00:19:43okay
00:20:03BOO
00:20:04come on
00:20:05Jen
00:20:05the
00:20:06world
00:20:06the
00:20:06the
00:20:07love
00:20:07the
00:20:08little
00:20:08is
00:20:08up
00:20:10the
00:20:10the
00:20:10the
00:20:10gal
00:20:33The gardens.
00:20:44The gardens.
00:21:14One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:22:06One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:22:15A sundial.
00:23:09One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:23:10One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:23:40One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:24:38One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:25:05One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:25:11Hey, what do you mean ghosts?
00:25:12You're the ghost.
00:25:13Oh, yeah.
00:25:14I'm a ghost, all right.
00:25:16That's why Cook just told me to run for some raspberries.
00:25:19Run here, run there.
00:25:20Wish I was a blessed ghost.
00:25:22And I've just come over from my Aunt Mary's house,
00:25:23and I don't think I imagined that.
00:25:27Who's the queen, who's the queen, then?
00:25:29Elizabeth, of course.
00:25:30Ah, Victoria.
00:25:32God bless her.
00:25:37You're a bit of a lick, then, for a ghost, ain't you?
00:25:39I don't know.
00:25:42I'd best be off getting raspberries if I don't want to work in.
00:25:47Wait!
00:25:49I've got a brilliant idea.
00:25:51What?
00:25:53Let's shake hands.
00:25:55Why?
00:25:56Well, don't you see?
00:25:58Whichever one of us is a ghost won't be able to.
00:26:00Not properly.
00:26:02Ghosts go through things.
00:26:05They're not solid.
00:26:08Don't like the odd area.
00:26:11Mine gone straight for years.
00:26:13If it makes you shudder.
00:26:14It won't.
00:26:16It'll be the other way around.
00:26:19If I dare do it,
00:26:21why don't you?
00:26:26Bless if I'll be weak by a girl.
00:26:30Ian.
00:26:50We're both real.
00:26:54What's your name?
00:26:55Tom.
00:26:56Short for Edward.
00:26:59Mine's Minty.
00:27:00Short for Penelope.
00:27:04You were downstairs too, then?
00:27:06What are you?
00:27:08Laundry.
00:27:09Scullery?
00:27:10What are you?
00:27:12All sorts.
00:27:13Kitchen, mostly.
00:27:14Down from Londoners.
00:27:16Footman's what I'm after.
00:27:18Footman?
00:27:19Yeah.
00:27:21I ain't big enough yet.
00:27:22I shall be.
00:27:23Country air.
00:27:24Keep taking big snuffs through it
00:27:25and I'll be six foot before a pinch nose.
00:27:33I suppose it must work the other way around.
00:27:36I used to hold my breath to stop myself growing.
00:27:40Stop yourself.
00:27:42What ever for?
00:27:44Oh, if you're a girl.
00:27:46Forgot.
00:27:49Even if you grew to seven foot,
00:27:50you'd never be a footman.
00:27:59How old are you?
00:28:01Well, for abouts, I suppose.
00:28:02I don't know.
00:28:04I don't know.
00:28:04You know enough of you.
00:28:06You've only got to ask your mother.
00:28:08I did.
00:28:09Oh, I'm sorry.
00:28:11I didn't realise.
00:28:12And my pa.
00:28:13An orphan.
00:28:16Got brothers and sisters, though.
00:28:18I am glad.
00:28:20I wish I had.
00:28:21Not that it matters.
00:28:23You never see them.
00:28:26Why not?
00:28:28I'm here, see.
00:28:29They're there.
00:28:30In London.
00:28:32Two of them's dead anyhow.
00:28:36Don't you miss them?
00:28:37A bit.
00:28:38Miss our daughter a bit.
00:28:40Funny nugget she is.
00:28:41Makes me laugh.
00:28:45How old is she?
00:28:48Seven rightabouts.
00:28:49Trying to keep her with me, I did.
00:28:51They said she was too little.
00:28:54Still, once I'm a footman,
00:28:55I'll have her here, all right?
00:28:58Hey, you!
00:28:59What's your name, boy?
00:29:01You come in them raspberries, aren't you?
00:29:03Birds have had hours out of them already.
00:29:06I'm coming now, sir.
00:29:11New from London, aren't you?
00:29:13Yes, sir.
00:29:14I never heard of dawn in London, I dare say.
00:29:18Or birds.
00:29:21Birds get up at dawn, what you know.
00:29:25Birds go pick.
00:29:27Pick.
00:29:28Pick.
00:29:28Don't, please.
00:29:30Pick.
00:29:30Pick.
00:29:30He was my topic, slave.
00:29:32He was talking to me.
00:29:33Pick.
00:29:34Boys and blunder.
00:29:35What's learning, what's what?
00:29:39Stop it, please.
00:29:41I'll run you, boy, from now.
00:29:43Stop it!
00:29:44Stop it!
00:29:52What did I do to make time jump?
00:29:56All those years?
00:30:00A hundred at least.
00:30:07The sun dial.
00:30:10The sun dial.
00:30:49All right.
00:30:51But I'll get back.
00:30:54You'll see I will.
00:31:09Mum.
00:31:18Why have you come?
00:31:20What's wrong?
00:31:22What's wrong?
00:31:22Minty, there's nothing wrong.
00:31:26She's better.
00:31:29She's woken up.
00:31:30No, but it's all right, Minty.
00:31:34She's still lying there, then?
00:31:36Yes.
00:31:37Mr. Benson's been at the hospital with her all night.
00:31:41Minty's been at the hospital.
00:31:41Why?
00:31:43Why?
00:31:43Why were you people only stay all night at the hospital, if?
00:31:47No, you mustn't talk like that, dear.
00:31:50I'm sure Kate is doing beautifully.
00:31:53Isn't she, Mr. Benson?
00:31:54She'll soon be as right as rain.
00:31:56What I've come to say, Minty, is that I think you ought
00:31:59to come to the hospital again.
00:32:01No, I can't.
00:32:05No, I can't.
00:32:05Not with her like that.
00:32:08I can't.
00:32:09I know it was a shock yesterday, Minty.
00:32:12It was bound to be.
00:32:16Look, you think about it.
00:32:19I'll come back later, see how you feel then.
00:32:23Anyway, Mr. Benson knows where we'll be, if there's any change in her.
00:32:30I must say, I think you're sensible not to go.
00:32:33Not if she's still asleep.
00:32:36Aunt Mary, those gilt flags on the tower.
00:32:40Yes, dear?
00:32:41If there's a wind, do they move?
00:32:42Oh, my word, yes.
00:32:44Spin like weathercocks.
00:33:08When I was little, I used to think this place was haunted.
00:33:13Haunted?
00:33:14Well, not as such, of course, but as if I was just on the edge
00:33:21of something.
00:33:27Oh.
00:33:29A bird, I suppose.
00:33:31I don't seem to understand about glass.
00:33:33Birds, silly things.
00:33:35Made you jump, didn't it?
00:33:38Pornity.
00:33:39What a dreadful shock you've had.
00:33:41It's been dreadful for you.
00:33:43Try not to worry.
00:33:45I'm sure everything will turn out well in the end.
00:33:51You go and have a look at the house, dear.
00:33:53Take your mind off things.
00:33:55Just tell them who you are.
00:33:56You'll be all right.
00:33:57Ever interesting before.
00:34:05I'd such an old hen
00:34:05Once this is Manic's house,
00:34:08I can take my room back.
00:34:14Here's where our windows are off.
00:34:14I get the hol병 that had five hours and directions.
00:34:14I'm still here, though.
00:34:25We'll show you.
00:34:26We'll wait.
00:34:27We'll just be into a hurry here,
00:36:04Can't be Tom.
00:36:07Not there.
00:36:09Kitchen, he said.
00:36:11Do you like it?
00:36:15If you'd been a girl in those days, you certainly wouldn't be dressed like that.
00:36:20They never quite looked like children to me, more like miniature grown-ups.
00:36:24I know what you mean.
00:36:26Those children, are they Victorian?
00:36:28Oh, no.
00:36:29Much earlier than that, the previous century.
00:36:32It's that dark shape.
00:36:35Looks like a child with no face.
00:36:39A portrait with no face.
00:36:45Oh, yes.
00:36:46You may be right.
00:36:48Oh, very odd.
00:36:49Never noticed that before.
00:36:52Are there any ghosts in the house?
00:36:53Ghosts?
00:36:55There's some sort of story about the queen's bedroom.
00:36:58Star-crossed lovers or something like that.
00:37:01It's not Tom.
00:37:03Have you seen the kitchens yet?
00:37:06No.
00:37:06Where are they?
00:37:23Tom!
00:37:26Tom!
00:37:27Tom!
00:37:38Tom, it's Minty!
00:38:04Well, now, there's a little white face.
00:38:08It's your mother, isn't it?
00:38:10I've been erring. Right sorry, I am.
00:38:15You keep going to where those children are.
00:38:19You need them, I reckon, now, as much as they need you.
00:38:26Something's happened.
00:38:28You've seen them, heard them.
00:38:31Yes. One, I think. An orphan.
00:38:35Ah, an orphan. They're coming to meet you.
00:38:41You keep going and they'll come to meet you.
00:38:44Yes.
00:38:48Yes.
00:38:54It's me!
00:38:57Tom, short for Edward.
00:39:00I'm here!
00:39:04Tom!
00:39:06Tom!
00:39:10Tom!
00:39:16Tom!
00:39:21Tom!
00:39:23Tom!
00:39:25Tom!
00:39:27Tom!
00:40:11Night.
00:40:14Can't be.
00:40:27Weeping, weeping, weeping, weeping.
00:40:33It's a-weeping on a bright mother's day.
00:40:38She's weeping for a playmate, a playmate, a playmate.
00:40:45She's weeping for a playmate, a playmate, a playmate, a playmate, a playmate, a playmate.
00:40:53Girls and boys come out today, the moon just shine a bright today.
00:40:58Leave your supper and leave your treats and join your playfellows in the streets.
00:41:07Who is it?
00:41:08Who's there?
00:41:09Don't be scared.
00:41:12It's me.
00:41:13Are you from the village?
00:41:15Yes.
00:41:16I'm Minty.
00:41:18I'm staying with my Aunt Mary.
00:41:20Do you know who I am?
00:41:22No.
00:41:23Please tell me.
00:41:25You haven't heard what they say.
00:41:27No, but listen.
00:41:30Don't be afraid.
00:41:31I'm not a ghost.
00:41:33Sarah!
00:41:35Sarah!
00:41:36It's a Miss Poe.
00:41:37I must go.
00:41:39There you are, you little devil.
00:41:41Please, please.
00:41:42I'm sorry.
00:41:43I'm sorry.
00:41:43Claire, see what you've done?
00:41:45You've frightened the moon away.
00:41:49Take me back, please.
00:42:22And where have you been, I'd like to know?
00:42:25I've been looking for you everywhere.
00:42:28Days I've tried to get you back.
00:42:29What do you mean?
00:42:30It was only this morning.
00:42:32Days back.
00:42:33I should know.
00:42:35I'm the one that lives here.
00:42:36You ain't.
00:42:38You ain't neither scullery nor house, nor anything else.
00:42:41So don't go tilling me any year till Miss Minty's short for Penelope.
00:42:45No, I'm not.
00:42:47Of course I'm not.
00:42:50And why should I pretend, eh?
00:42:52After all, I'm from the present.
00:42:55It's you that's from the past.
00:42:57I don't know what you're talking about.
00:42:59Present?
00:43:00I mean now.
00:43:01Now?
00:43:02What's now?
00:43:03This is now.
00:43:05This three minute.
00:43:06Look, see that?
00:43:09Yes.
00:43:11So it's now, ain't it?
00:43:13Now for you.
00:43:15And now for me.
00:43:18And it's now for you, because you're a ghost.
00:43:21Don't say that.
00:43:23Well, maybe not to me.
00:43:26But old Mags never saw you the other day.
00:43:29The gardener.
00:43:30Getting me a proper wallop in.
00:43:33I saw him.
00:43:35I actually touched him.
00:43:38And then...
00:43:39Then what?
00:43:41Well, he vanished.
00:43:42And you did.
00:43:44There you are, then.
00:43:46Only he didn't vanish from me.
00:43:48Don't I wish he had.
00:43:54Why did you want to see me again?
00:43:56I just wanted to talk to her, I suppose.
00:43:58Told you.
00:44:00Dory and the rest stopped in London.
00:44:04Had any news about Dory?
00:44:06Bit.
00:44:07Coachman gave me a message.
00:44:10Staying in Old Mar Bar, because she is.
00:44:13Know what that means?
00:44:14What?
00:44:16Bits of crust, that's what.
00:44:17And that's if she's lucky.
00:44:20The night and day, gutter picking.
00:44:23She's only little.
00:44:27Ran any taller, have I?
00:44:29Since you saw me.
00:44:30Not so you'd notice, no.
00:44:37Well.
00:44:38I think you might have grown a bit, now I look at you.
00:44:42Other than I have.
00:44:45Why are you dressed like that if you're a girl?
00:44:48What's your job?
00:44:50I haven't got one, exactly.
00:44:54I'm on holiday.
00:44:56Holiday?
00:44:57What do you mean?
00:44:58Time off from school.
00:45:00School?
00:45:02But did I get you from?
00:45:04Still.
00:45:05At least you don't go running off like the other one.
00:45:08What other one?
00:45:10Oh, you ain't my only ghost, you know.
00:45:11Don't you think it?
00:45:14Who's the other one, then?
00:45:18Well.
00:45:20More real ghosts than you.
00:45:23Always at night when I see her.
00:45:26Littler than you.
00:45:28And dressed like a proper little girl with skirts.
00:45:31What's her name?
00:45:33Sarah.
00:45:36Seems scared when she sees me.
00:45:39As if I was a blessed ghost.
00:45:43I've seen her too.
00:45:47Just now.
00:45:48What?
00:45:49In broad daylight?
00:45:51No.
00:45:53It was night when I saw her.
00:45:56Like you said.
00:45:58Not my night.
00:46:01Or yours.
00:46:03It was her night.
00:46:05Air!
00:46:06You!
00:46:06Boy!
00:46:07It's him!
00:46:08Mags!
00:46:09Tom!
00:46:09Wait!
00:46:10I'm coming!
00:46:11I'm coming!
00:46:32I've got to wait till the coast is clear.
00:46:35I ain't letting the guy unless I'm sent.
00:46:37I want to catch it if she finds out.
00:46:40Ooh.
00:46:42Mrs Crump!
00:46:48Look.
00:46:49That's James.
00:46:50First footman.
00:46:53Don't you think it is it?
00:46:54His legs are slipping.
00:46:58Poor old peacock.
00:47:00Try to pat his calves and wet himself legs like lumpy porridge.
00:47:06Best make a dash for it.
00:47:07You coming?
00:47:09They'll not see you.
00:47:11Not daylight, ghost.
00:47:12Still.
00:47:14Take this.
00:47:15Don't run.
00:47:16Walk.
00:47:20Hey!
00:47:21Boy!
00:47:22Pick that up!
00:47:23Leave it!
00:47:25Sorry, sir.
00:47:26You get back where you belong!
00:47:28Yes, sir.
00:47:28Sorry, sir.
00:47:39Still running.
00:47:41That was close.
00:47:43I had to drop it.
00:47:44You dropped it on purpose.
00:47:46Don't you see?
00:47:47Even if I'm invisible, the bucket might not have been.
00:47:50What if I just saw a bucket floating along in mid-air?
00:47:53A coast bucket?
00:48:00I'll tell you what.
00:48:02Let's find out.
00:48:03Find out what?
00:48:05If they can see you!
00:48:06You coming to the kitchen?
00:48:08I dare you!
00:48:10Okay.
00:48:11You're spanky.
00:48:12I'll say that.
00:48:13It might be hard-dory a bit.
00:48:15Come on.
00:48:24I've got to try and get in without a scene.
00:48:33Here, you drop that dripping pan!
00:48:36You thieving miss!
00:48:38You know whose dripping that is?
00:48:40Oh, Mrs. Crumple, was only...
00:48:41Don't you give me any of your own, Liz, miss.
00:48:44You get on and scour them pots, do you hear?
00:48:47Else I'll scour you.
00:49:00You...
00:49:01Nobody's noticed me.
00:49:04I must be invisible.
00:49:12Here, you...
00:49:13Boy!
00:49:17Ow!
00:49:18You, what's your name?
00:49:19What was that wink?
00:49:20Please, ma'am.
00:49:21Nothing, ma'am.
00:49:22Wink?
00:49:23Wink?
00:49:25Wink?
00:49:25I ain't having no winking in my kitchen, do you hear?
00:49:29You ain't here to wink.
00:49:31You ain't paid 30 shillings a year to wink.
00:49:36You come along with me,
00:49:38and I'll put you where you can wink yourself blind.
00:49:54There!
00:49:56You stop there and wink, what's your name?
00:49:59And see them bottles he's dusted and tidied while you're about it.
00:50:06There.
00:50:11And I'll have this one locked as well.
00:50:33I'm trapped.
00:50:36I'm trapped.
00:50:38In time and in here.
00:50:40And I'll have this one locked as well.
00:51:11Tom? Tom? Tom?
00:51:18Here. I'm here.
00:51:25Tom, we're trapped.
00:51:27They'll let us out. Always have before.
00:51:30At least I can't get beaten in.
00:51:32But you're on your own time.
00:51:36Oh, I've got to get back to Mum. I've got to.
00:51:41Your Ma?
00:51:44You ain't never mentioned her before.
00:51:47Thought she was dead like mine.
00:51:54Poorly, is she?
00:51:59I've got to get back.
00:52:03Got a pa?
00:52:05No.
00:52:08At least I've got Dory.
00:52:12Look, don't blub. She'll let us out.
00:52:17She'll let you out.
00:52:19She doesn't even know I'm in here.
00:52:22Look, if she lets me out, I'll let you out. I will.
00:52:29Somehow.
00:52:32Look, I better get them bot sorted, or else I shall get beat.
00:52:41Oh, Mum.
00:52:45I'll talk to you next time.
00:52:46I will.
00:52:58I...
00:52:59I will...
00:53:14I'm back.
00:53:52No!
00:53:56No.
00:54:09Back again, Mr. Benson.
00:54:11I should have thought you needed some sleep.
00:54:13Brought a tonic for the patient.
00:54:14Oh, I see.
00:54:17I'll wait back down here.
00:54:18Stay as long as you like, Minty.
00:54:20Yeah.
00:54:28Hello, Minty.
00:54:29Hello.
00:54:36Hello, Mum.
00:54:39It's me, Minty.
00:54:42Don't go away, please.
00:54:44Why don't you sit down, Minty?
00:55:02Aunt Mary sends her love.
00:55:06So do I.
00:55:15Where is she?
00:55:19What can I say to make her come back?
00:55:29Mum, I've had an idea.
00:55:33I'm going to tell you a story.
00:55:36It's a true story of what's happening to me.
00:55:39I don't even know what the end will be.
00:55:44Lucky you're like this, or else I wouldn't be telling you at all.
00:55:54First instalment tomorrow.
00:56:01Is the doctor here?
00:56:03Could I ask him something, please?
00:56:05Absolutely.
00:56:06It's a marvellous idea.
00:56:07You've got to swear that you'll never, ever listen.
00:56:10Do you promise?
00:56:11Cross my heart and hope to die.
00:56:13And you've got to make the nurses swear as well.
00:56:16Oh, I'll make them.
00:56:17If they don't, I'll kick them out.
00:56:19Sounds like a very special story you've got to tell.
00:56:22And she'll hear it, Minty.
00:56:24Never you fear.
00:56:25She's a long way away at the moment, resting.
00:56:28But she's there.
00:56:29And the one voice she wants to hear in the whole world is yours.
00:56:34Bye.
00:56:38But you will come yourself sometimes as well.
00:56:40I will.
00:56:42I was going to suggest something like that myself.
00:56:45It's amazing how it works.
00:56:46And music.
00:56:48Music often gets through where nothing else would.
00:56:50Except my voice.
00:56:52That's taken as read.
00:56:58Can I read her a story in instalments, are you?
00:57:01That should keep her hanging on there.
00:57:03Not just any old story either.
00:57:08I love your mother as well, Minty.
00:57:10Everyone does.
00:57:15Well, pick up the Walkman on the way home.
00:57:17Yes, it won't take long.
00:57:18I know where it is.
00:57:41What is on the way home, Musicas, movie, mercury brids, country one?
00:57:51Well, This is my son.
00:57:51Yeah, of course that could never answer.
00:57:56This is my son's language.
00:57:56I know what music says many years.
00:57:58Oh, we will have to play over the pick together a little bit.
00:58:04It's on the track of music, buddy.
00:58:04I want to laugh.
00:58:56You'd better take it.
00:58:58We're going back before I do.
00:59:01As soon as you've got it tape ready,
00:59:02give me a ring, right?
00:59:03But if you want to go yourself, I'll come right away.
00:59:07Thanks.
00:59:26The more you pick, the more they grow.
00:59:28Oh, well, how did you find your mother today, dear?
00:59:32Is that true about the roses?
00:59:34Oh, yes.
00:59:36Yes, you'll wait and see.
00:59:38Oh, I've had ever such an exciting morning.
00:59:41I've had a visitor.
00:59:42Oh, who?
00:59:43Such an interesting person, a Miss Raven,
00:59:46doing some research, she says,
00:59:48was on a book she's writing about ghosts of all things.
00:59:52Ghosts?
00:59:52Here?
00:59:53At the house.
00:59:56Are there any?
00:59:57Well, there are stories about the queen's bedroom.
01:00:00You know how tales spring up around old places.
01:00:03But nothing about children?
01:00:04Children.
01:00:05Oh, no, dear.
01:00:06Anyway, she wants to stop here for a while to investigate, she says.
01:00:11Oh, bless me, I haven't talked to the most exciting news of all.
01:00:14She's going to stop here with us.
01:00:16We've got a lodger.
01:00:19She's going to stop here with us, she says.
01:00:32The world?
01:00:35Has there been a woman here asking things?
01:00:39A lot of women come here asking things.
01:00:44But I dare say you mean the one who calls herself Raven.
01:00:49I told her nothing.
01:00:51She's the sort of woman I wouldn't tell the time of day to.
01:00:54Told her nothing.
01:00:56Good.
01:00:57But she's coming to stay.
01:00:59Looking for ghosts, she says.
01:01:03It'll be the children she's after.
01:01:08And it's for you to save them.
01:01:11But how?
01:01:13How can I?
01:01:14I told you.
01:01:16You're the one who has the key.
01:01:19Found them yet, have you?
01:01:21Yes.
01:01:22One.
01:01:24The orphan and now another.
01:01:27But I don't really...
01:01:32I will save them.
01:01:35I will.
01:01:36I will.
01:01:42I will.
01:01:48I will.
01:02:05You.
01:02:06What do you do?
01:02:09Here.
01:02:13It's as if someone walked over me grave.
01:02:18Ain't changed much.
01:02:20Except it's daytime, of course.
01:02:23I don't know how I did it this time.
01:02:25What do you mean, did it?
01:02:26Got back into your time.
01:02:28Oh, but you didn't, Miss Clever.
01:02:31Thought you was the only one who knew about the sun, though, didn't you?
01:02:33No.
01:02:36You mean...
01:02:37Believe me?
01:02:41Listen, Tom, I've got to warn you.
01:02:43There's someone after you.
01:02:44No one will come looking here.
01:02:45Not Mags or Crump or nobody.
01:02:47All fast asleep they are.
01:02:49No, Tom, it's not Mrs Crump.
01:02:50Or Mags.
01:02:52It's a woman from my time.
01:02:53Hey! Look at that!
01:02:55Ladies with legs!
01:02:57Oh, my.
01:02:58Wait till I tell her how dirty it is.
01:03:00Watch this.
01:03:03My turn to be invisible.
01:03:11So peaceful.
01:03:17Hello, dear.
01:03:18Hello.
01:03:19I'm just laughing at a joke I thought of.
01:03:23Oh, what it is to be young.
01:03:26Ain't it just?
01:03:35Tom?
01:03:38Tom?
01:03:40Tom?
01:03:41Come on back.
01:04:03E.L.
01:04:051871.
01:04:08Must be a child.
01:04:13Why doesn't it say the dearly beloved son or daughter of anyone?
01:04:18It's sad.
01:04:31Do you think she'll like those pictures?
01:04:35Yeah, lovely.
01:04:45Well, that one's a bit shabby.
01:04:48I've got some smashing old photos in my room.
01:04:51Oh, well, she could have those.
01:04:53I don't mind having that one.
01:04:54Oh, I've already shown her those.
01:04:56You mean she's been in my room?
01:04:58Oh, yes.
01:04:59She was very interested.
01:05:01Though I do wish you'd keep your room a bit tidier, dear.
01:05:05Oh, I'm sorry.
01:05:05I didn't realize it was open to the public.
01:05:08That, Minty, isn't an overly polite thing to say.
01:05:12But I'll make allowances in the circumstances.
01:05:16It's all been very upsetting for you.
01:05:19But it'll all come out for the best in the end.
01:05:22I'm sure it will, dear.
01:05:35Oh, Mum, I do love you.
01:05:38And I miss you.
01:05:40I can't tell you how odd it feels to be talking to you
01:05:43and you not to be there.
01:05:46But I've got the story to tell.
01:05:48It's a true one.
01:05:50Of what's happening to me here in Belton.
01:05:54In a funny kind of way.
01:05:57It's as if it's your story, too.
01:06:00Like it's an adventure we both have to go through together.
01:06:05Before you come back.
01:06:09And now you'll have to wait till the next instalment.
01:06:14Who is the mysterious hooded child?
01:06:18And why do we only see her at night?
01:06:24And who is the sinister Miss Raven?
01:06:27The ghost hunter?
01:06:29Dun-da-dun!
01:06:41She's probably the most harmless old duck in the world.
01:06:45She probably sits crocheting tea cosies for bring-and-by sales
01:06:50when she's not looking for ghosts.
01:06:53And has a hot water bottle and wears lace-up shoes.
01:06:57A dear old lady.
01:06:59A harmless old bat.
01:07:03Tonight.
01:07:07I'll go tonight before she gets here.
01:07:12The only thing is...
01:07:15What if Aunt Mary locks all the doors and I can't get out?
01:07:19What a question.
01:07:20As if I wouldn't.
01:07:22You never know who's about, even in the daytime.
01:07:25I thought you did. I just wanted to make sure.
01:07:26You needn't worry your head about that, dear.
01:07:29I lock the doors front and back every night.
01:07:32And then I take out the keys and put them in the tea caddy.
01:07:37It's delicious cake.
01:07:39Good.
01:07:40Good.
01:07:44But she's only little.
01:07:46I don't want to scare her.
01:07:50So I'm going to dress as if I'm in her time.
01:07:54I wonder where that ghastly long night she Aunt Mary gave me for Christmas.
01:07:58And that awful duffle with the hood.
01:08:01Don't mind admitting I'm terrified though.
01:08:14But I've got to do it. For her sake and yours.
01:08:3211.30. I've got to be there for the stroke of midnight.
01:08:56Bless her.
01:09:451.30. I've got to do it.
01:11:07Oh, no.
01:13:04Who are you, anyway?
01:14:06Still night.
01:14:22Wait.
01:14:24Yeah.
01:14:27Shh.
01:14:28Shh.
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