I’ve been trying to find out the name of this series for a long time. I must have seen it when I was 7 or 8 years old, about 25 years ago now. Forgive me if my description of the series isn’t that clear, it’s been a while since I saw it:
It was about a group of young boys who for some reason decided to start living in the woods nearby the village they lived. It was set in the 1920s/30s. It told about how they had to kill rabbits for food and clothing, and how they had to hide for people trying to find them. Sometimes they had to go in the village to try and steal certain things they needed. Very exciting stuff. One of the boys wore glasses I remember, which he at one time shattered. There also was some solitary living man in the woods they sometimes had contact with. And there was a bit of heartache with one of the boys still in love with a girl in the village.
I remember something similar but it was set during the WW2. The kids were always finding things in bomb sites. Supose if it was WW1 then we may be getting somehwere !
Writer: James Andrew Hall / Director: David Cobham
Period drama serial set between the world wars and it was about three brothers who were living with their rich auntie. When the auntie decided to employ a tutor for the boys after they crashed her tea party, they ran off to live in the woods, and learned to survive in the wild, whilst trying to evade the police, a couple of reporters and a grizzly bear that escaped from the zoo. Thanks to Richard Clark for his contribution to this entry and also thanks to Scott Christopher for additional information for this entry.
With:- Christopher Biggins as Curate Whiting / Rosalie Crutchley as Aunt Ellen / Liza Goddard as Monica Hurling / Michael Balfour / Paul Curran as Smokie / Paul Erangey as Harold / Dafydd Hywe as Photographer / Hilary Mason as Beatrix Holcome / Craig McFarlane as Robin / Veronica McNamee as Angela Bowers / Michael Robbins as Sergeant Bunting / Howard Taylor as John
From memorabletv which seems to list every show ever made.