Swallows and Amazons Forever!

Swallows and Amazons Forever! is a 1984 BBC children's television series based on two children's novels from the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, Coot Club (four episodes) and The Big Six (four episodes).

Swallows and Amazons Forever!
Title Card
Genre	Children's
Written by	Arthur Ransome (books) Michael Robson (script)
Directed by	Andrew Morgan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production location(s)	Norfolk Broads
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	14 March – 2 May 1984

The setting is the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s, partly near the village of Horning, with the children sailing and bird-watching, plus some detective work in The Big Six. The main characters are visitors Dick and Dorothea (Dot) Callum and locals Tom Dudgeon, the twins Nell and Bess, three boatbuilders’ sons Joe, Bill and Pete, and adults Mrs Barrable, Dr Dudgeon (father of Tom) and Frank Farland (father of the twins) plus in Coot Club five obnoxious adults in a motor cruiser, the Margoletta who are called the Hullabaloos by the children. Despite the title, Ransome's other groups of children, the Swallows and the Amazons, do not appear.

A Puffin paperback with the same title was published in 1983; it is a condensation of Coot Club (omitting the postscript) and The Big Six (omitting 7 chapters). It was reissued as a Red Fox paperback in 1993 with the title Swallows and Amazons for Ever!

It was intended that Swallows and Amazons Forever! should have continued with adaptions of all the books in the series, and Swallowdale and The Picts and the Martyrs were to have been next. Casting and scouting for locations began, but the cost of filming on National Trust property in the Lake District was too expensive, so the series was cancelled.[1]