‘Cider is very good, but it makes people sleepy.’

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What was the first television series for young people to show its youthful viewers the unvarnished truth about the shocking effects of alcohol abuse? Byker Grove? Press Gang? Hollyoaks? Wrong, wrong and wrongest.

It was, in fact, a show which predates them all: Camberwick Green.

In the middle of the day, while he should be making flour, Windy Miller gets smashed out of his face on homebrew cider and passes out, leaving his windmill unattended. This Health and Safety nightmare isn’t a pastiche or a reedit; this is simply how a classic children’s programme deals with hard-hitting issues.

Shit just got real in Trumptonshire…