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How We Used To Live

Season 5

1981 · 20 episodes

  1. 1. 1936 Head of the Family

    1981-09-23

    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).

  2. 2. 1937 Counting the Cost

  3. 3. 1938 Holiday with Pay

  4. 4. 1939: Hospital Case

  5. 5. 1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere

  6. 6. 1940: Home from Home

  7. 7. 1942: Stars and Stripes

  8. 8. 1943: Make Do and Mend

  9. 9. 1943: Take a Man’s Place

  10. 10. 1944: Peace on Earth

  11. 11. 1945: Let us Face the Future

  12. 12. 1946: Full Supporting Programme

  13. 13. 1947: Cold Comfort

  14. 14. 1947: A New Look

  15. 15. 1948: Full Steam Ahead

  16. 16. 1948: On the National Health

  17. 17. 1949: On the Move

  18. 18. 1951: A Tonic for the Nation

  19. 19. 1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road

  20. 20. 1953: Your Undoubted Queen

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