Old World War Kids Tv Series

[Neocubes]

Im trying to find the name of a series that I was shown at school as a kid. I really don't remember much apart from the main charachter was a young boy and the intro video was him walking through various destroyed buildings with a evacuation siren playing in the background.

Thanks in advance

[Everhelpful]

"The Machine Gunners"?

[tonyav]

Was it has Everhelpful say's this, The Machine Gunners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAUHSCJXVns

[tonyav]

The programme, maybe. But not me, I just put Machine Gunners has Everhelpful suggested into the YouTube search box.

[emmie]

never heard of this at all.

[emmie]

from a book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Gunners

[Neocubes]

Unfortunately not it, this would of been from the 90's

[stewey]

Although not a series, this is a excellent movie regarding a child's view of the Home Front..Both moving and humerous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_and_Glory_%28film%29

[Neocubes]

I distinctly remember the intro with the sirens and planes and bombs and then the kid walking around with a satchel

[Grimaldi]

The Silver Sword? I seem to remember there were perhaps 3 siblings, leaving an East European ghetto.

[emmie]

sure it wasn't a film?

[emmie]

The Silver Sword was much earlier,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392999/

[chrisgel]

What year would you have seen it at school?

[Everhelpful]

Was it not the "Hovis" Advert?

[carolegif]

I loved The Silver Sword. Pat Pleasance, Melvin Hayes and Fraser Hinds were in it, all went on to greater things.

[Neocubes]

It would have been shown to me in the early 2000s, 20005 at the latest, I'm not sure when the programme was actually made though. Sorry I don't have information.

[chrisgel]

Possibly Carries War 2004. Shown in schools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN1lB5fhs0Q

[retrocop]

Goodnight Mr Tom?

[chrisgel]

Also an earlier (1974) tv series of Carries War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdMsoKrzvFY

[Peter Pedant]

I liked Frazer Hines as Jan in The Sliver Sword - 1959 - I thought no one else remembered it. Tresailler the author had never left english shores when he wrote it. Ignored when it was published as gloriously celebrated in a memoir by his daughter which is a preface in the modern edition

and he soared on to Jamie in Dr Who....