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Swiss Family Robinson

High-seas adventure with the Disney version of the classic novel. The resourceful Robinson family build a five-star treehouse on a remote desert island. Stars John Mills.

High-seas adventure with the Disney version of the classic novel. On the run from the Napoleonic regime, the Robinson clan head for a new life in New Guinea. Tested by the terrors of pirates and a brewing storm, they wake to find themselves left for dead on an idyllic desert isle. The resourceful family construct a five-star treehouse, but are they safe from attack by the men with the skull and crossbones?

2 hours, 8 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Dec 200812:00
BBC Two except Yorkshire

Credits

FatherJohn Mills
DirectorKen Annakin
MotherDorothy McGuire
FritzJames MacArthur
ErnstTommy Kirk
FrancisKevin Corcoran
RobertaJanet Munro
Pirate ChiefSessue Hayakawa
CaptainCecil Parker
ProducerBill Anderson
WriterLowell S Hawley

Broadcasts

  • Sat 23 Feb 200814:35
    BBC Two England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & Scotland only
  • Sat 27 Dec 200812:00
    BBC Two except East & Yorkshire