Century Falls
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Century Falls DVD Cover, showing from left to right Tess Hunter, Ben and Carey Naismith
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| Created by | Russell T Davies |
| Starring |
Bernard Kay Marc Sinden Mary Wimbush Catherine Sanderson Tatiana Strauss Beryl Cooke Georgine Anderson Heather Baskerville Simon Fenton Emma Jane Lavin Eileen Way |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC1 |
| Original release | 17 February – 24 March 1993 |
Century Falls is a British cross-genre series broadcast in six twenty-five-minute episodes on BBC1 in early 1993. Written by Russell T Davies, it tells the story of teenager Tess Hunter and her mother, who move to the seemingly idyllic rural village of Century Falls, only to find that it hides many powerful secrets.
Russell T Davies had worked in the BBC Children's Department for many years, writing the science-fiction series Dark Season for the weekday afternoon Children's BBC strand in 1991. The following year, he had left the BBC to work for Granada Television, where he was producing and writing for their children's medical drama Children's Ward.
The director of Dark Season, Colin Cant, had been assigned to direct another children's series for BBC1, but had little enthusiasm for the script. Instead, he wrote to Davies asking if he could provide something else. Davies quickly wrote the first episode of Century Falls for Cant to take to his superiors, who then fully commissioned the programme.
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 Children's BBC on BBC1 on Wednesday afternoons at 5:10 pm from 17 February to 24 March 1993. Each episode was repeated on BBC2 the Sunday morning after transmission.
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.
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