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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
29th May, 2017 03:47:01 PM
The adaptation of Elidor by Alan Garner?
Edited by jormis29 Working on cleaning up List Of Shows That Need Summary
This one's been bugging me for a while, but I watched part of a fantasy series when I was younger but can't for the life of me remember what it was called!
It was thematically similar to Chronicles of Narnia, which was on around the same time, so puts it in the 80's or early 90's I think, it's likely I was watching re-runs rather than its original airing. The show focused on a group of three or four modern-day (at the time) pre-teens or teens, possibly related, who discover a set of magical artefacts. I remember one being a sword, and another a chalice. These provide access to a fantasy realm, possibly in the past, from which the artefacts originate, but going there leaves the world vulnerable to others crossing over.
There was a unicorn that is somehow connected to the artefacts, and whom the children are trying to protect. I remember there being a connection to a house as well, possibly a deceased relative's, and I believe the artefacts are discovered there, with the owner having possibly been the previous protector of them.
It may have been a British show, but I'm not 100%; I went through life believed Round the Twist was British until I rediscovered it years later 😉
Probably a long shot, but I'm hoping someone out there might know what this show was called!