The Cedar Tree TV Series DVD - (1976-1978) -Susan Valentine, Ruth Holden, Sally Osborne =

The Cedar Tree was a television serial that ran from 1976 to 1979 in the United Kingdom. It involved the story of the upper class Bourne family in the decade leading up to the Second World War. The main setting is Larkfield Manor, the family home set in Herefordshire, in the grounds of which is the cedar tree. The Cedar Tree was made by Associated Television Productions (ATV) and recorded at their studios at Elstree. Two established cast members were the veteran actress Joyce Carey and Susan Skipper, who played one of the Bourne family's daughters. Two other noted actors involved were Philip Latham as Commander Bourne, and Cyril Luckham, as Charles Ashley, the benevolent grandfather. In a bizarre bit of casting, Jack Watling, who had been playing Captain Julian Palmer, an old friend of the Bourne family, in Series 2, took over the role of Arthur Bourne in Series 3.