Moondial (TV serial)

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{{Infobox television

| image = MoondialTV.jpg

| caption = Moondial title screen

| runtime = 25 – 28 minutes

| creator = Helen Cresswell

| starring = Siri Neal
Tony Sands
Jacqueline Pearce
Joanna Dunham
Valerie Lush
Arthur Hewlett
Joe York
Martin Sadler
Helena Avellano
Alison Rowley

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| network = BBC1

| first_aired = {{Start date|1988|2|10|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1988|3|16|df=y}}

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 6

}}

Moondial is a British television six-part serial made for children by the BBC and transmitted in 1988, with a repeat in 1990. It was written by Helen Cresswell, who also wrote the 1987 novel on which the series was based.{{cite web |url=http://www.brutalashell.com/2015/04/dvd-review-moondial-1988/ |title=DVD Review: Moondial (1988) |publisher=Brutalashell.com |date=2015-04-28 |accessdate=2015-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501231007/http://www.brutalashell.com/2015/04/dvd-review-moondial-1988/ |archive-date=1 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|author=Helen Cresswell |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-02-725370-2 |title=Children's Book Review: Moondial by Helen Cresswell|publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date=1987-11-02 |accessdate=2015-05-02}}{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4287142.stm |title=Entertainment | Helen Cresswell's literary legacy |publisher=News.bbc.co.uk |date=2005-09-27 |accessdate=2015-05-02}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1499439/Helen-Cresswell.html |title=Helen Cresswell |work=The Telegraph|date=29 September 2005 |accessdate=2015-05-02}}

File:Belton Arch Giano.jpg near Grantham in Lincolnshire, the setting for Moondial.]]