What was this kids tv programme?

[lola jax]

It would've been late 80s early 90s and it was a drama for kids I think on bbc1 it involved a sundial and I remember it being quite scary...when I was ten! But it was a good prog as I remember...

[joko]

did it have a girl in it called minty and a chimney sweep type urchin ghost in a large old stately home?

[mycatis]

Wasnt it a moondial? If it was I remember the programme, and loved it

[Octavius]

If it was, it was called.....

Moondial

[Joe Shmoe]

Yes it was the rather brilliant Moondial.

[sg]

yeh Moondial! with the lovely Minty, what happened to her I wonder?

[KebabMeister]

I loved Moondial. It was filmed at Belton House, near Grantham, where the writer Helen Cresswell also lived (nearby). I actually got engaged in the graveyard, though it wasn't to last!!

Looking back, Moondial is very similar to the 1972 Lionel Jeffries film "The Amazing Mr. Blunden" - see here and they share many similarities - being confronted with two children from the past; all set within a garden of a mansion; the children in the past are in danger; time travel etc...

Sorry, just had to mention the film, it's my favourite film of all time!! :)

[maddyegg]

It was called Moondial I think - the main character was called Minty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLX-6KwoMY