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Fallowing the successful BBC dramatisation of the 1960s (Voted 96th in the BFI 100 Greatest British Television Programmes poll of 2000), the film rights were bought by Lionel Jeffries, and a 1970 film was a great success. A Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and its station at Oakworth were used when location.

A movie star Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins (who ad libbed most of his performance). Within 2004 the magazine Total Film named it the 46th greatest British film ever.

A film was late remade for ITV with Agutter now swimming a role of the toddlers's mother.