Forget those real-life, workaday worries while you indulge yourself with a luxurious warm wallow in nostalgia. It’s time again to swap the gloomy grey of the modern world for the effervescent outpourings of that Great British 20th-century filmmaking phenomenon for the young and the young-at-heart, the Children’s Film Foundation with the Bumper Box Vol 5 DVD set, released by the BFI in April.

Herewith you’ll find another nine fantastic feature-length vintage adventures, scrubbed up nicely alongside a whole host of exhilarating extras to provide you with a sparkling new selection of the very best from the 1940s to the 1980s. All in all, it’s a delectable deep dive into escapist fun and thrills for the whole family. So, sit down, switch on, switch off, and don’t worry: it’ll all come out in the wash.

Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 5 will be released as a 3-DVD box set on 15 April 2024 at the RRP of £29.99.

Disc 1
Foil 1940s art thieves deep beneath a stately home without getting your flannels dirty in The Secret Tunnel (1947), spend 2d on a 1950s donkey ride with Carol ‘I’ll Never Forget What’s ’Isname’ White while you laugh it up at some cut-price clowns in Circus Friends (1956), then escape Napoleonic soldiers over the mountains with Roberta ‘Dr Who and the Daleks’ Tovey in anti-war period drama The Piper’s Tune (1962).

Disc 2
Try and retrieve your toy aeroplane from an ancient tower aided only by a donkey with The Rescue Squad (1963), clamber up a half-built high-rise way up above British Home Stores Oxford Street branch with a dangerous 1960s James Bond stuntman on your tail in Daylight Robbery (1964), then get mixed up with an international crime syndicate in Tangier with seafaring Norman ‘Worzel Gummidge’ Bird, in All at Sea (1969).

Disc 3
Boo 1970s ‘Confessions of a Window Cleaner’ legend Robin Askwith as a ruffian on the run in The Hostages (1975), cheer mighty Keith ‘Multi- Coloured Swap Shop’ Chegwin as he dons Lincoln-green-o tights for Robin Hood Junior (1975), and, edging into the 1980s, gasp at the CFF’s first international intrigue political-assassination-plot thriller, The Boy Who Never Was (1980).

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Austere pre-internet amusements with Our Magazine No 11
• A scrapbook-doggie causes mayhem for mama in Bouncer Breaks Up
• Carry on laughing with Peter Butterworth, The Chiffy Kids and The Magnificent Six and 1/2
• All-new mini-doc Danger at the CFF – today’s young actors scrutinise stunts as they were done in days of yore
• Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing by CFF expert Vic Pratt, recollections of the CFF by Robin Askwith, and a quiz on the films by the BFI’s Trevona Thomson