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Friday Island

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Host

"Robinson Crusoe" (Mike Hall)

Co-hosts

"Man Friday" (Peter Ling)

Broadcast

Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 16 June to 4 August 1961 (8 episodes)

Synopsis

Somewhere between Jungle Run and Survival Challenge, but comfortably pre-dating them both. Teams of children helped castaways Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday on their studio-built island by identifying and assembling things supposedly washed up on the shore.