Peter Howitt
How We Used To Live (1968)
Season 5
How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.
Released Sept. 23, 1968
Episode 20 min
None+
Keywords: imdb.yorkshire-england, imdb.family-relationships, tmdb.history
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S5E1 - 1936 Head of the Family
The Hodgkins family lives in a new suburb of a Yorkshire manufacturing town. Arthur, a railwayman, is buying the semi-detached house on a mortgage, having moved from rented accommodation in a terrace during the building boom of the early 'thirties. His wife, Mabel, devotes herself to the home and their family of four children, Jimmy (14), Patricia (12), Avril (8), and Edward (2).
Sept. 23, 1981, midnight
S5E2 - 1937 Counting the Cost
S5E3 - 1938 Holiday with Pay
S5E4 - 1939: Hospital Case
S5E5 - 1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere
S5E6 - 1940: Home from Home
S5E7 - 1942: Stars and Stripes
S5E8 - 1943: Make Do and Mend
S5E9 - 1943: Take a Man’s Place
S5E10 - 1944: Peace on Earth
S5E11 - 1945: Let us Face the Future
S5E12 - 1946: Full Supporting Programme
S5E13 - 1947: Cold Comfort
S5E14 - 1947: A New Look
S5E15 - 1948: Full Steam Ahead
S5E16 - 1948: On the National Health
S5E17 - 1949: On the Move
S5E18 - 1951: A Tonic for the Nation
S5E19 - 1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road
S5E20 - 1953: Your Undoubted Queen
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 20 min.
Season Runtime: 20 min.
Released: Sept. 23, 1968
Last Air Date: Feb. 9, 1993, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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