Talk:The Famous Five (1978 TV series)

Michele Gallagher
As creator of the article and the person who originally wrote that Michele Gallagher had died by suicide in 2001, based on evidence of several posters on two different forums (including one claiming to be her son), I think it's perhaps fair enough that the information has been removed since forums are not reliable sources. However, I do believe this to be true given the overwhelming evidence of the writers on the forums. The fact that an article on Michele Gallagher was created (and later deleted) giving her exact date of death gives weight to this also. However, I was wondering if there is anyone out there who knows this to be true and can find some evidence so that the info can be included?--Tuzapicabit (talk) 23:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I have edited on the Michele Gallagher German Article to Michele Gallagher and edited it so that the German erase-discussion ended. If there would be an interest of an translation of this article, I can translate it, but first there must be made entries on the discusion page of the english article to Michele Galgagher, so that I can place a transaltion on it. with friendly greetings --Soenke Rahn (talk) 10:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thankyou for the link. In particular I think the Italian report on it seems okay, so I'll tentatively reinsert the info with the ref.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 14:31, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, the thing is not clear (compare the content of the entire German article). If you need I can make an entire translation of the German article, but it would be important to place a statement on the English-Article Michele Gallagher, because the problem was discussed on this site, and the information is an information to this article. Here is the false place to publish opinions and interpretations of these events. The Italian writer wrote it surely because he used the gossip in the internet, there ist nothing to see that he researched in england. I would say it is better to make a seperate article. Compare German Erase-Discussion to the article. with friendly greetings, Sönke Rahn --Soenke Rahn (talk) 16:45, 10 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I spoke to Gary Russell who played Dick in the series. He's frustrated that Wikipedia refuses to acknolwedge Michele's death. He's promised to mention it in his upcoming book Spies, Smugglers and Spook Trains so we can have a cite. Paul Austin (talk) 05:51, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

This may all be so, but today the statement in this article is not backed up by any source. W.P. guidelines do, however, demand that all interested readers can trace every important piece of information to a reliable(!) source. Therefore the statement here has to be removed - at least for the time being. -- 147.142.186.54 (talk) 20:00, 16 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, if it is not sourced and marked as gossip and so on. It must be erased. If Gary Russel will write about the toppic, he will have stuff to write and I suppose he will make it sensetive, if it is important. He will have a better look on the situation, but he has not said anything in the radio interview etc. There exists two possiblities 1. a persons living or 2. the person is dead. --- Maybe one possibility may be higher but an error would be not funny for living persons which are declared as dead and so on. And it is important, if a person is dead, that private gossip things will not be placed ... At last, for the reader is it important: Will be a chance that there will come a film with this actress again this could be placed without problems. It is possible to write on this chapter that she made no more films ... But the aftermaths section was possible really placed to place the toppic again and again ... If you want to make articles to the persons you may look on the German articles ... --Soenke Rahn (talk) 20:04, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Well done. Wikipedia guidelines are very clear to this point and they have to be followed by everyone who wishes to take part in this project here. So there can be no discussion. / In case Garry Russell is in fact going to publish such autobiographical account as a book, as we were told here in March, and there is new information on her fate included in it, everyone is free to add it here, stating clearly where the statement comes from and that it is one person's report - but only then, after the public release of such book, and with pricise page number and perhaps quote. Not before.

Regards, -- 147.142.186.54 (talk) 18:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Has anyone got the new UK DVD? It claims to include an interview with the original cast. Can any light be shed during this interview - and more to the point, is Michele Gallagher actually present in it?--Tuzapicabit (talk) 10:19, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

If the surviving cast members are "frustrated" about the lack of reliable sources regarding Michele Gallagher's death then it seems curious that no mention was made of it in the 2011 radio interview referred to below. I understand Gary Russell's projected book has been delayed until further notice. Genealogy sites like Family Search and Find My Past certainly have online records of one Michele Barbara Gallagher (b. 4 April 1964) who died in Westminster, London in 2001, but I suppose at this point there is currently no conclusive proof that this is the same person as the Famous Five actress. Muzilon (talk) 21:38, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Radio Interview with remaining cast 2011
http://www.sunshinehospitalradio.co.uk/famous5reunited.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.38.100.150 (talk) 05:16, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link have managed to incorporate a little into the article.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 10:40, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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George's surname
I notice that George is mentioned in the article as George Kirrin. Anyone who has read the first book to be written, Five on a Treasure Island, will know that George tells her cousins, whom she is meeting for the first time, the circumstances of Kirrin Island coming into her possession. It was given to her by her mother, in whose family the island, Kirrin Cottage and a farm had been for a long time. It seems reasonable, then, to assume that Kirrin was Aunt Fanny's maiden name. In the early 1940s, it would have been unthinkable for a young person not to bear the name of her father. Uncle Quentin's surname is never mentioned, although he is said to be the brother of Dick, Julian and Anne's father. The latter gentleman features little in the series of books, as the action invariably takes place away from wherever it is (London, if memory serves) that he, Julian, Dick and Anne live. In one of the very last books of the series of 21, Enid Blyton actually gives him a surname, which is not Kirrin, eliminating the vague possibility that his brother Quentin and Fanny were cousins with the same surname. I think the name was Barnard, although I couldn't be sure without looking it up. Glendaloughchloe (talk) 13:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)