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Freewheelers is a British children's action / adventure television series made by Southern Television between 1968 and 1973. Each story centred around a group of teenagers who aid a British security agent to thwart the plans of a villain and avert an international disaster.

Series overview

Episodes

Each of the eight series comprised 13 x 30 minute episodes divided into two or three linked stories. All eight series were produced by Chris McMaster.

For extant episodes, the episode title and the names of director and writer are taken from the programme credits (except in the case of Chris McMaster who did not take a director credit). Information for the remaining episodes is from published sources, principally contemporary listings and Time Screen magazine articles and episode guides. Air dates are from TV listings for the earliest broadcast, some ITV regions may have been later.

Under Status for the best known copy, "TR" indicates broadcast standard telerecording, "VT" indicates broadcast standard videotape, and "VHS" indicates the domestic recording format.

Series 1 (1968)

Series 2 (1968–69)

Series 3 (1969)

Series 4 (1970)

Series 5 (1971)

Series 6 (1971)

Series 7 (1972)

Series 8 (1973)

Archive status

1. ^ A telerecording of the full episode is held at the Wessex Film and Sound Archive (collection AV763)
2. ^ A copy of the full episode is held in the British Film Institute collections (reference number 786172)
3. ^ Missing episode, no copies of the full episode are known to exist.
4. ^ The episode video master held by Renown Pictures Ltd Archived 14 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
5. ^ A copy of the full episode is held at Wessex Film and Sound Archive (collection AV763).

53 of the 104 episodes exist: 27 as broadcast masters, 14 as telerecordings and 12 in domestic formats (e.g. VHS). The remaining 51 episodes are missing.

The telerecordings include all 13 episodes of Series 1. The only series for which a complete set of video masters is held is Series 6, which was released on DVD in 2009.

The location film segments for all episodes are at Wessex Film and Sound Archive (collection AV763).

Notes

1. ^ The main story names for series two were listed in the TV Times but did not appear on screen.
2. ^ Series 6 was released on DVD in 2009 by Simply Home Entertainment
3. A restoration of episode 82 was performed by Talking Pictures TV from a domestic recording and the original location films, and first broadcast by them on 24 July 2017.
4. Episodes 85 and 86 have the same name due to a production error

References

1. On screen credits from the episode as broadcast.
2. TV Times – Independent Television Publications Limited.
3. Time Screen, The Magazine of British Telefantasy – Publisher David Nightingale.
4. ^ Freewheelers: Calling White Knight by Mark Harris. Time Screen issue 15 (Spring 1990), p4-p8.
5. Freewheelers: Doomsday! by Mark Harris. Time Screen issue 19 (Autumn 1992), p10-p14.
6. Freewheelers Episode Guide series 1–3 compiled by Andrew Pixley and Mark Harris. Time Screen issue 15 (Spring 1990).
7. Freewheelers Episode Guide series 4–8 compiled by Andrew Pixley, David Auger and Mark Harris. Time Screen issue 19 (Autumn 1992).

External links

• Freewheelers at IMDb

• Lists of British action television series episodes
• Lists of British children's television series episodes
• Lost television episodes