My mom and I were hooked on this series when it first played, oh so long ago. Even now, I can sing that weird theme song (mum, mum, mum, mum, ...) I actually have the novel on which this series was based. It was written by K.M Peyton (a woman) and first published in 1967. Apparently, I at least got to page 298, but I don't remember a thing about it. I must have read it when I was a teenager. You are welcome to borrow it-- for you or your daughter.

Here's an interesting thing... I read that K. M. Peyton was actually a pseudonym for a husband and wife team.

Oh, yes, the theme song is memorable and weird is a good word for it.

I've got the trilogy the series was based on. I found out that K. M. Peyton wrote a subsequent book, Flambards Divided, in 1981 after the series was released.

That sounds likely-- the information about the author in the front of my book is oddly written. It starts out in third person singular, talking about K.M. Peyton meeting her husband Michael (hmm-- M.) at Manchester Art School. The blurb then switches to third person plural.

Besides being creeped out by the theme music, I remember being horrified by the fox-hunting scene, especially when the heroine smeared blood on her face after the hounds killed the fox. I hated her after that.

Wow! How did you manage to watch the rest of the series if you hated Christina after the second episode?

The ritualistic blooding was more fascinating to me than upsetting as a teen. But maybe that is just my inner klingon coming out. Q'apla!

I know-- it was early! I don't know. Maybe I was hypnotized into watching the show by that theme music (which I've now been singing for days-- curse you, ironic one!).

I had pretty strong Anglophile tendencies back then. Chalk it up to that. I probably thought some guy in the series was cute, too.

I think I have more of an inner tribble than an inner klingon. Although I'm sure I could summon some klingon if put into a room with anyone of the hard-right-wing or mega-corporate persuasion.

I saw a flaw in your entry.

Your daughter did NOT say 'I'm hooked' after half an episode.

She said that after the third episode.

Infact what she thought after half an episode was,'he liked that?!'

I hope in the future you will consult her before typing such mistakes.

I stand corrected.

Actually, I'm sitting right now.

But metaphorically, I am standing in a corrected position.

I saw the series when it first was shown on PBS and loved it then...just bought it and am loving it all over again. The mansion which "plays" the role of Flambards is very familiar...I think it may also have been used in the original "Love in a Cold Country" to be "Alconleigh", the home of the Mitfords. Does anyone know where it is and what it is called, or is it a purpose-built movie set?

Looks like it may be Sawley Hall near Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Here is some photographic evidence:

Sawley Hall Photo 1
Sawley Hall Photo 2

Thanks for the opportunity to do some sleuthing!

Hello to all the other Flambards fans out there! It is amazing that we all share similar outlooks and influences from this series! It certainly shaped a good part of my youth and I still enjoy the DVDs to this day with my husband and daughters. Just last week, I purchased the Flambards Soundtrack on CD! It is available on David Fanshawe's website. He will even personally autograph it for you! He inscribed a very kind a personal message to me. This is the page if anyone else wants to enjoy this beautiful haunting music again: http://www.fanshawemusicstore.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=14
Good luck to the site and thanks to Nance for sharing her photos of the Sawley Hall estate. I hope I get to visit it someday too!

Yes yes i certainly remember the days.It was such romantic movie and i loved it. Can anyone please please tell me where i can buy a dvd of this classic.Alex

Alex,

I got mine off Amazon and it looks like they are still available.

I'm so sad, I remembered the theme tune from my youth and it has haunted me for quite some time to find out what the drama was. I could recall the programme was about two brothers and that it involved war and airplanes. After much searching at last using the net I have finally found the Flambards just ordered the DVD set and cannot wait to watch. Why I have never forgotten the music after nearly 30yrs I just dont know.

hi all. nice site. by.

Only two days ago I redicovered Flambards. I had forgotten the title though I always clearly remembered the name Christine. We watched every episode on PBS and I will now borrow it from a local library and see if I enjoy it as much as I did back in the early 80's.

Wow. I was looking at links to my site as I often do and found several clicks to this particular post. When I googled "flambards" I found, much to my surprise, that this little article was on the front page. Imagine my surprise!

I loved reading the books. I don't often like the shows based on the books my imagination is better than the director's usually is. I liked it mostly for the horses, go figure. I'm sorry to say I never read anything other than Flambards, but I read them several times. I thought Christine was often hard to take. I wanted to slap her more than once. The jumping scenes and the hunting parts were exciting and made me want to go to England just so I could ride "the hunt."

My favourite tv series EVER!
I so loved it , and was thrilled to meet the 'horse manager ' for all the hunting scenes. He provided horses for all the main characters , plus stood in for 'Mark' in the point to point race scene. He is a well knowm=n Yorks show rider , who still lives in that part of the world. It was he that told me several years ago that Sawley Hall was the location , and walking along footpaths on the estate was heaven [ although house can hardly be seen] But now the house and estate is for sale , so anyone with a few million £ can live the Flambards life for themsel;ves!
ps Dick was my favourite. He also seemed to disappear; a few years ago he was in some insurance ads , bald and a liitle portly ...he obviously didnt keep up the riding .....