Five Go Mad in Dorset - Critical Reception

Critical Reception

Reviewing Channel 4's launch night for the the Financial Times, Chris Dunkley wrote that it was a "deliciously accurate parody of Enid Blyton's mind-numbingly repetitive adventure stories", but compared it unfavourably to Ripping Yarns.

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