Very Old Tv Series - Can You Name It?

[barry1010]

Another one of my totally pointless current obsessions that is occupying my mind.

The tv drama  featured a house with a cartwheel on the chimney that had a stork's nest on it.  I thought it was British but storks hadn't nested in the UK for hundreds of years until the early 2000s.   Although I did see one in Norfolk not far from a small zoo, it was an escapee. 

Does it ring bells with anyone?

[bhg481]

The Alsace region of France along the Rhine is very popular for storks, if that helps anybody.

[barry1010]

Thank you, bhg.  I'm wondering now if it could have been one the programmes my children watched - Swiss Family Robinson or Heidi, maybe

[ichkeria]

It reminds me if the book I read at school The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong - not a tv series ever I think though 

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[barry1010]

That seems to be a good children's book, it stuck in your memory so it must have been, ich.  I might find a copy for my granddaughter

[bhg481]

I've never seen storks in Switzerland but the Alsatians think it brings good luck if they nest on their house so put up wheels or trays to encourage them.

[barry1010]

How else could they deliver babies without a landing platform?