Mon Dieu! Les French letters are everywhere!

I have got both brain cells revved up, and I am beginning to think it was maybe a film/TV production about Antoine St Expury.

Hmmm…you could be right. Antoine St. Expury famously wrote The Little Prince, and a quick search on Wikipedia turned up this:

“A film musical adaptation titled The Little Prince was made in 1974. This film is notable chiefly in that it marked the penultimate collaboration of composer Frederick Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, and was their final musical. The authors were dissatisfied with the film’s Hollywood treatment. Loewe refused to visit London to supervise the arrangement and recording of the score. The film was unsuccessful at the box office, but has become somewhat of a cult classic and is again available”

Full Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince_(film) – however this asserts that all filming took place on location in Tunisia (and not Booker)

That does have the right time scale, and the Antoine St. Expury connection, but, not having seen this movie, I am not clear of the connections with French-registered aircraft at Booker!