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. 24, 1968
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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
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S5E3 - 1938 Holiday with Pay
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S5E4 - 1939: Hospital Case
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S5E5 - 1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere
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S5E6 - 1940: Home from Home
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S5E7 - 1942: Stars and Stripes
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S5E8 - 1943: Make Do and Mend
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S5E9 - 1943: Take a Man’s Place
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S5E10 - 1944: Peace on Earth
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S5E11 - 1945: Let us Face the Future
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S5E12 - 1946: Full Supporting Programme
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S5E13 - 1947: Cold Comfort
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S5E14 - 1947: A New Look
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S5E15 - 1948: Full Steam Ahead
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S5E16 - 1948: On the National Health
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S5E17 - 1949: On the Move
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S5E18 - 1951: A Tonic for the Nation
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S5E19 - 1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road
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S5E20 - 1953: Your Undoubted Queen
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ITV1
Sept. 24, 1968
Feb. 9, 1993, midnight
Returning Series
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