Plot: Young Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle, Lord Archibald Craven (John Lynch), in a cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. Mary briefly meets him, still mourning for his wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries. First she finds an overgrown secret garden, the favorite of her aunt and locked up since her death. Second, that she has a cousin, Colin Craven (Heydon Prowse), a sickly boy who has been told he must remain in bed out of the daylight at all times. Once Mary and another new friend, Dickon (Andrew Knott), have brought the garden back to life they decide Colin must see it, a decision that will change several lives.
Alternative Plot: Adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic fairy tale, "The Secret Garden." Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is an orphan sent to live with her uncle at his mansion that is full of secrets. She discovers a crippled cousin she never knew she had and a neglected garden she is determined to bring back to life.
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