The Borrowers

The Borrowers

Ended First aired 08/Nov/1992 United Kingdom English 2 season(s) 12 episode(s)
Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & Adventure
The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and survive by 'borrowing' all they need from the house and its inhabitants. This series follows young girl Arriety, and her parents Pod and Homily, as they are displaced from their home and try to find a new home, with the help of a human boy, George.
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Season 2 · The Return of the Borrowers
6 episode(s) · Air date: 14/Nov/1993
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S2E6
Episode 6
Air date: 19/Dec/1993 · Time: 17:40 · Runtime: 30 min
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Final episode in the adaptation of Mary Norton 's classic books. Imprisoned in an attic the Borrowers must escape. They have five days before the Platters are to put them on public display. Arrietty persuades Pod and Homily to build a balloon.

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Final episode in the adaptation of Mary Norton 's classic books. Imprisoned in an attic the Borrowers must escape. They have five days before the Platters are to put them on public display. Arrietty persuades Pod and Homily to build a balloon.

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S2E2
Episode 2
Air date: 21/Nov/1993 · Time: 17:40 · Runtime: 30 min
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Pod tells the Hendrearys that he and his family are leaving. Eggletina shows them a way out through the scullery drain, but as they make their way, a roaring wall of water rushes towards them.

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Pod tells the Hendrearys that he and his family are leaving. Eggletina shows them a way out through the scullery drain, but as they make their way, a roaring wall of water rushes towards them.

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S2E1
Episode 1
Air date: 14/Nov/1993 · Time: 17:35 · Runtime: 30 min
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The Clock family - Pod, Homily and Arrietty - make a new home for themselves with their relatives Uncle Hendreary, Aunt Lupy and Eggletina.

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The Clock family - Pod, Homily and Arrietty - make a new home for themselves with their relatives Uncle Hendreary, Aunt Lupy and Eggletina.

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Season 1 · The Borrowers
6 episode(s) · Air date: 08/Nov/1992
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S1E6
Episode 6
Air date: 13/Dec/1992 · Time: 17:45 · Runtime: 30 min
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Things take a turn for the worse as the boot that the family is sleeping in is picked up by the rat catcher and taken back to his caravan. The young borrower from the forest and the young boy from the house have to join forces to attempt a rescue.

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Things take a turn for the worse as the boot that the family is sleeping in is picked up by the rat catcher and taken back to his caravan. The young borrower from the forest and the young boy from the house have to join forces to attempt a rescue.

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Episode 5
Air date: 06/Dec/1992 · Time: 17:45 · Runtime: 30 min
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The family have taken up refuge in an old boot that they have found in the forest. This is the base camp for Pod's excursions out to try and find another family of borrowers, one that is supposed to live in a badger's nest somewhere nearby. This episode introduces a new borrower, a young boy about Arrietty's age that lives in the forest.

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The family have taken up refuge in an old boot that they have found in the forest. This is the base camp for Pod's excursions out to try and find another family of borrowers, one that is supposed to live in a badger's nest somewhere nearby. This episode introduces a new borrower, a young boy about Arrietty's age that lives in the forest.

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Episode 4
Air date: 29/Nov/1992 · Time: 17:45 · Runtime: 30 min
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The first two thirds of this episode are a wonderfully crafted and tense escape sequence with the rat catcher on the job and poisonous gas being pumped into the wall cavities. The last third sees our family out in the big wide world, and when you are only 15cm high the world is very big indeed.

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The first two thirds of this episode are a wonderfully crafted and tense escape sequence with the rat catcher on the job and poisonous gas being pumped into the wall cavities. The last third sees our family out in the big wide world, and when you are only 15cm high the world is very big indeed.

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Episode 3
Air date: 22/Nov/1992 · Time: 17:45 · Runtime: 30 min
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Things look too good to be true with their new human friend bringing them more presents than they know what to do with. Unfortunately, it is too good and the family of borrowers is discovered and the rat catcher is called in.

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Things look too good to be true with their new human friend bringing them more presents than they know what to do with. Unfortunately, it is too good and the family of borrowers is discovered and the rat catcher is called in.

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Episode 2
Air date: 15/Nov/1992 · Time: 17:45 · Runtime: 30 min
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While on a trip out Arrietty is seen. Thankfully this is by a young boy that is living in the house and he does not have the usual adult reaction to the borrowers. Unfortunately, his naivety later leads to problems but initially Arrietty asks him to deliver a letter to a place she hopes might hold another family of borrowers.

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While on a trip out Arrietty is seen. Thankfully this is by a young boy that is living in the house and he does not have the usual adult reaction to the borrowers. Unfortunately, his naivety later leads to problems but initially Arrietty asks him to deliver a letter to a place she hopes might hold another family of borrowers.

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Episode 1
Air date: 08/Nov/1992 · Time: 17:40 · Runtime: 30 min
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The first episode sets the scene and introduces us to the main characters and starts to show us what it is like to be only 15cm high. We find out that they are the only borrowers in the house and also meet the humans that co-inhabit the house. The first of a series of problems start with Pod 'being seen'. Arrietty, who has never been allowed out of their below the floorboards home, is introduced to the art of borrowing.

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The first episode sets the scene and introduces us to the main characters and starts to show us what it is like to be only 15cm high. We find out that they are the only borrowers in the house and also meet the humans that co-inhabit the house. The first of a series of problems start with Pod 'being seen'. Arrietty, who has never been allowed out of their below the floorboards home, is introduced to the art of borrowing.

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Rebecca Callard
Rebecca Callard
Arrietty
Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton
Homily
Ian Holm
Ian Holm
Pod
David Ryall
David Ryall
Crampfurl
Paul Cross
Paul Cross
George
Siân Phillips
Siân Phillips
Mrs. Driver
Daniel Newman
Daniel Newman
Spiller
Pamela Cundell
Pamela Cundell
Aunt Lupy
Tony Haygarth
Tony Haygarth
Mildeye
Stanley Lebor
Stanley Lebor
Uncle Hendreary
Victoria Donovan
Victoria Donovan
Eggletina
Ben Chaplin
Ben Chaplin
Ditchley
Ross McCall
Ross McCall
Ilrick
Barbara Hicks
Barbara Hicks
Mrs. Durbridge
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Bay White
Miss Moorcraft
Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones
Miss Menzies
John Tordoff
John Tordoff
Policeman
Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon
Mr. Pott

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Clive Tickner
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John Henderson
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Grainne Marmion
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Mary Norton
Novel
Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter
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