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    Hello. This is the only one I haven't been able to put a name to. Can you help?!
    Three or four part story. Set in Wales (The Valleys?)
    Boy lives in Valleys. Has a collie dog. Father is a farmer. One day they go out for a walk
    into mining landscape. Boy throws a ball, it falls into a lake. Dog goes after ball. Dog seems
    to struggle out of the water. Boy goes in to rescue dog. Dog sadly dies/drowns. :cry:
    Boy gets out but is ill. Gets to hospital. Turns out he is slowly being poisoned.
    Remaining episodes the other characters try to find out what is being dumped/spilled
    into the water by whom in order to make an antidote (?)
    I think it has a happy ending
    Many thanks!
    -Ed

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    Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

    We've had this before but the OP never came back to say if Danny was right https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...light=poisoned
    Heather

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    • #3
      Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

      This sounds familliar. I think it sounds like one of those Childrens Film Foundation Films that CBBC used to put on 4:30 Fridays, They called it The Friday Film Special.

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        Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

        Many thanks.. I did have a quick search on the website but I was a bit tired

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        • #5
          Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

          Originally posted by escorteclipse1990 View Post
          This sounds familliar. I think it sounds like one of those Childrens Film Foundation Films that CBBC used to put on 4:30 Fridays, They called it The Friday Film Special.
          The Battle Of Billy's Pond has a similar theme of chemicals being dumped & entering watercourses.
          The Trickster On The Roof

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          • #6
            Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

            I'm sorry if this is classified as something of a necro of a thread but I wanted to add to this one.

            I've been looking for this for years, a few bits come to mind that I remember.

            The chemical in the pond was from a canister that had in large red letters 'TOXIC' it had somehow fallen out of a vehicle, found by some kids who threw it in a pond and then threw stones at it until it sank releasing the chemical inside. One character went swimming in the pond and got very badly ill and I believe died.

            The only other thing I remember is a scene was filmed at the old Farthing Corner services on the M2 in Kent.

            My own google-fu has also failed me.

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            • #7
              Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

              just checked of youtube and the series you are after is called The Country Boy 1989 . its on youtube in full.

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              • #8
                Re: mid 80s BBC drama set in Wales (?)

                The Country Boy was mentioned on the old TV Cream website although I don't remember it myself.

                For some reason, the Grange Hill episodes where Roland's year go to Wales in 1983 came to mind when I saw the title - either that or something seen on S4C.
                I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
                There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
                I'm having so much fun
                My lucky number's one
                Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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