My Friend Walter

Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, determined to escape the Tower of London once and for all and return to Devon. When Sir Raleigh learns that a pair of dastardly brothers have designs on his ancestors' farm, he devises a plan to thwart them.

• Gavin MillarDirector
• Michael MorpurgoScreenplay

• Prunella ScalesAunt Ellie
• Polly GrantBess Throckmorton
• Ronald PickupSir Walter Raleigh
• James HazeldineCharlie Throckmorton
• Don HendersonBertie Borrowbill
• Richard StrangeBoney Borrowbill
• Constance ChapmanGran
• George InnesDesk Sergeant
• Louise JamesonJoan Throckmorton
• Madge HindleAunt Winnie