Probably one for those in their late 20s/early 30s – but does anyone else remember being thoroughly freaked out by this? it was TX’d amongst the kiddies programmes years ago on Southern TV and may have also been shown in Anglia and Westward regions (there being lots of farms there…); the kids were killed off to a soundtrack of a childrens choir singing “ten little indians..”
The film would also have shown in schools on 16mm projectors and early video equipment (including obligatory 28″ telly in brown wooden case on a large stand 🙂 ) and may have been used well into the 1980s – perhaps untill 1986/7 or so!
it did its job, I can remember it 20+ years later and it still unnerves me..
from http://tv.cream.org
Quote:
APACHE (late 70s)
ITV
NIGHTMARE-inducing production, shown to kids in school assemblies to learn them of the dangers of arseing about with dangerous farming equipment. No doubt there was a rash of this kind of thing, what with The Wurzels in the charts and everything. Also shown on Southern TV in the summer of 1978, as recalled by Jeremy Kinsman: “It was narrated by a teenager and concerned a group of his friends playing on a farm. Here’s the gruesome bit – each one of them dies or is killed in the most unpleasant circumstances: one is chopped up in a combine harvester, one drinks some poison, one drives over the cliff in a tractor, one has his head smashed in by a heavy metal gate post! Nothing was left to your imagination either and all this during the school holidays at about 10am in the morning. I can’t believe that the IBA allowed it to be broadcast but I guess as a warning about the dangers of messing about on a farm it was very, very effective.”
