Name this children's book and TV series from the 80's
September 16, 2008 11:18 AM   Subscribe


Plot: Three (?) children [definitely two boys, maybe a girl too...] are living in their grandfather's/stepfather's/some dude's(?) massive house and estate/lands. For some reason(?) they decide to run away, but instead of actually going anywhere, they instead hide out in the land/forrest of the estate. They manage to hide out there for YEARS, within sight of the massive house all the while. They evade many search parties [something about a hollow tree...?] and it becomes rather Lord of the Flies, with them making clothes out of animals and eventually their escapade ending with one of the boys [dark-haired one] returning home to the big house [can't recall if he rats out the other two]. Maybe the dark-haired kid got sick, so that's why he had to go back...?

This was a book , but was also a TV series shown in the UK in the late 80's with similar production values as 'Famous Five' and 'Follyfoot'. I remember it being full of awesome. The closest I can come to remembering the actual title is: 'The Boys of Brendan Green'. But fruitless Googling and Amazon-ing(?) prove useless.
posted by ticktockdoc to Media & Arts (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
Brendon Chase
posted by iconomy at 11:37 AM on September 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

My God that's beautiful!

BrendOn, not BrendAn!

Thank you so much!
posted by ticktockdoc at 1:04 PM on September 16, 2008

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