El último de los mohicanos

I remember watching episodes of this series as a child, which must have been in the early 1960s. It couldn't have been earlier as a) it wasn't released in the UK until 1962 and b) I wouldn't have been considered old enough to watch it before then anyway.

I remember it as an exciting and semi-educational series - while it may not have been historically accurate, it did throw some light on the events of wars that occurred in North America in the mid-1700s. It must have made an impact as I've always remembered the names of Hawkeye and Chingachgook, the story of the 'Last of the Mohicans' and James Fennimore Cooper - how many remember him ? Montcalm, General Wolfe and Quebec Heights all became known and I still have, somewhere, a jigsaw puzzle depicting the scene.

Astonishingly, at least some of the episodes are now being repeated on British television, black and white of course, but none the worse for that. Yes, it's dated and some might say it's a bit corny but that's what television was in the 1950s as viewed through the prism of 60 years later. "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans" wasn't half-bad in it's day and I remember it fondly. Seeing it again in 2019 hasn't changed my opinion.