Treasure Over the Water
This three-part BBC adventure series for children told of two boys – Adam and David– who became involved in an unusual treasure hunt. The treasure itself was traditional enough – family jewels lost during the time of the Spanish Armada. While searching for it, however, the boys did not meet traditional enemies but faced all the frustrations of trying to unearth history.
Episodes
David finds a canoe drifted down stream. After a misunderstanding he meets Adam, who now lives, with his grandparents, following the death of his father. Adam asks David to help find Jonathan Codling's treasure but needs to decode a rhyme.
Adam and David find a loose brick on the bridge but the treasure has long gone. David finds a clue but Adam's grandfather dies. The note says he had found the treasure but hid it again. Adam becomes suspicious his neighbours the Smith's.
David and Adam know the Squeak Wilson is an unwitting key to the treasure. David learns that the Smith's are also Codling descendants, the Ashworthy-Smith's. Smith buys the house and the treasure is in his grasp leaving the boys just days.
