The Ghost of Monk's Island

This is awful. Patronising to kids? Yes. They are trusted as "good sailors" with a boat and yet - due to their own stupidity - everything they do on the sea turns to bilge.

Useless kids end up on an island.

Strange plot device; they could have conjured up a sea fret or sudden storm? But no the once capable children make a hash of their adventure, running out of petrol? Really? Losing the oar? Seriously! Well how about the kid's near- drowning by falling out of the boat, having taken off his lifejacket?

Oh my! No wonder, then, that my contemporaries decided to become delinquents! Only good for the occasional location spots.

Wooden acting by middle class kids connected to the film industry perhaps?

Awful.