The Borrowers (1992 TV series)
A tiny family flees into the English countryside.
The Borrowers, a six-part BBC2 series from 1992, adapts Mary Norton's first two novels about the Clock family. Directed by John Henderson, it stars Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, and Rebecca Callard. Each episode but the last ends on a cliffhanger. The series, which follows tiny people fleeing their floorboard home for the countryside, appears on the BFI's list of 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. A sequel, The Return of the Borrowers, aired in 1993.
Quick Facts
- Director
- John Henderson
- Writer
- Richard Carpenter
- Based on
- The Borrowers; The Borrowers Afield, Mary Norton
- Starring
- Ian Holm
- Penelope Wilton
- Rebecca Callard
- Music
- Howard Goodall
- Cinematography
- Clive Tickner
- Editor
- David Yardley
- Company
- Working Title Films
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Plot
The Clock Family are borrowers, tiny people who live in the houses of regular sized human beans and survive by borrowing from big people while keeping their existence secret. The main characters are teenage borrower girl Arrietty and her parents Pod and Homily. During a borrowing expedition with her father, Arrietty befriends a human boy named George who lives in the home. The family, living under the kitchen floorboards of an old manor, are discovered by other humans and forced to flee into the English countryside. After finding an old boot to live in, they befriend a fellow borrower named Dreadful Spiller, who helps them find a more permanent home by reuniting them with relations who had relocated in the caretaker's cabin on the manor's grounds.
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