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The Owl Service was an eight-part British television series based on the fantasy novel by Alan Garner. The novel was awarded both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. In 2007 it was selected by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children’s literature as one of the ten most important children’s novels of the past 70 years. This definitive TV adaptation of Alan Garner’s award-winning novel combines mystery, adventure, history and the legend surrounding a complex set of human relationships. 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. After a remarriage, the new family spend a few weeks of the summer in an isolated valley in Wales. Alison (Gillian Hills) hears scratching noises in the attic above her bed and persuades the cook’s son to investigate. Something odd happens. He almost falls through the ceiling while simultaneously Alison’s stepbrother, lounging by a large flat stone near the river, hears a scream and seems to see something flying through the air toward him.
