Yet ANOTHER TV show I need a Name For ----weird people on an island

[albie]

Pretty sure it was British: you'll see why.
It was on TV in the mid 80s. It involved a small gang of young people travelling around Britain and finding a part of the land that is normally cut off from the surrounding land by water. The stranded people were culturally backwards by hundreds of years. Still wearing the old style of clothes. There was antagonism with the backwards people and the small gang, who arrived in a jeep or range rover. The vehicle was seen as a monster by the backwards people. And was used to scare them when they attacked. I would say the era the backward people stuck in would be around the time of the witch trials.

Please help me with the lost piece of jigsaw brain.

[beccabear67]

The only thing I can think of is Stig Of The Dump, but that was more down a quarry.

[George 1978]

It rings a bell - was this on in the post-World of Sport / Robin of Sherwood sort of slot of 5.30 pm on ITV on Saturdays during the spring and summer mlonths, circa 1985-1986? I think that there was a series called Return to Treasure Island or something like that.

Our teacher read Stig of the Dump to us at storytime circa 1987. In SOTD I noticed in the series that Barney is wearing Lee jeans a la Hart Bochner's character in the Supergirl film.