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An early 80s kids show set in the not too distant future, starring the late, great Mike Reid of EastEnders fame. Noah's Castle had a superb piece of synthesiser into music and the plot revolved around a shortage of food and rampant inflation (a pair of kids shoes were for sale at £380!), food hoarding being a criminal offence.

Episodes focused around how living in this new UK with is almost military junta government affected the main characters lives. Mike Reids character had a sub-plot throughout, with him leading a kind of revolution against the new regime in the UK. He bribes someone with a promise of swiss francs if they reveal where one of the other main characters is hoarding their supplies. He's also constantly trying to get people to sell their goods at more realistic prices which people can afford. Oh, the bribe is fake too!

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  • Anonymous user
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    ah, I LOVED Noah's Castle! I have it on dvd. I loved the music, too
  • Anonymous user
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    One of my favourite EVER TV series's, made in 1979 / 80- it starred Marcus Francis, David Neal, Simon Gipps-Kent and Annette Ekblom. Ex-army offier Norman Mortimer is determined to protect his family from the social and economic collapse that is engulfing the country. He buys a large Victorian villa with enormous cellars, which he proceeds to stock with foodstuffs and other supplies to see his family through, fortifying the house against outside attack. His wife and children have misgivings about the plan, believing that their hoard of supplies should be shared amongst wider society. Then daughter Nessie gets involved in the subversive, Socialist 'Share Alike' movement, which ups the tension still further.... This series was a superb commentary on late 1970s Britain, and a powerful illustration of what may well have befallen not just England but the entire Western world if the decay of the Callaghan and early Thatcher years had continued. It blew aside any notion that the collapse of modern civilisation would in any way be some kind of glamorous, Hollywood-type adventure, and accurately showed it for what the Punk movement has always told us it would be- squalid, dirty, diseased and starving, with the army patrolling the streets, riots a common event, and the cities festooned with barbed wire and subject to curfews. A cross between Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles and Wales during the Depression. The theme music is one of the eeriest, most haunting soundtracks I've ever heard, and the ending was pure mastery- the credits rolled against an image of an army checkpoint at sunset, men and vehicles silhouetted against the sky whilst a radio news commentary interspursed bulletins of the various doom-laden events of the day. Apocalypse Now.....
    • Anonymous user
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      :-) fab
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      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noahs-Castle-Complete-Annette-Ekblom/dp/B002IT2D24/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1553470865&sr=8-1&keywords=noahs+castle+dvd+castle

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