Century Falls
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| Century Falls | |
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BBC1 | |
| Release | 17 February – 24 March 1993 |
Century Falls is a British
Background
The director of Dark Season,
The production was shot entirely on location around Richmond, Langthwaite, Muker and locations around the northern Yorkshire Dales. The waterfall of Century Falls was actually Gibson's Cave, just north of Bowlees.
The series was broadcast as part of
Century Falls was released on DVD by 2|entertain Ltd on 24 July 2006. Upon release, it received a British Board of Film Classification rating of PG.
Plot
When Tess Hunter and her mother arrive in Century Falls, they gradually find it to be a strange village, haunted by a disaster that befell it during the performance of an occult ceremony forty years earlier.
Tess befriends the only other children in the village, brother and sister Ben and Carey Naismith, and finds that Ben has strange powers which he draws from the waterfall that gives the village its name.
The Naismiths' uncle Richard is working with his aged father, Dr Josiah Naismith, to complete the unfinished ceremony using Ben's powers, hoping to raise the spirit of a mysterious God-like being, Century. They are eventually stopped by Tess's actions, aided by the local Harkness sisters, who knew the original tragedy of the 1950s events.
Cast and crew
Of the cast, the three teenage leads were unknown: Catherine Sanderson as Tess,
Many of the adult cast were already well-known character actors from a range of British television dramas.
References
- ^ McGown, Alistair, Century Falls (1993), BFI Screenonline, retrieved 6 July 2012
- ^ a b "BBC – Cult – Classic TV – Century Falls (1993)".
External links
- Century Falls at BBC Online
- Century Falls at bbc.co.uk
- Century Falls at IMDb
- Century Falls at the BFI's Screenonline
