January 1, 1976 • 1h
July 1872. It is Edwin Clayhanger's last day at school. Everyone expects that he will enter his father's printing business, but Ed...Read more
January 8, 1976 • 1h
Edwin becomes a hero - he wins his fathers admiration, but is no nearer to the realisation of his own ambitions to become an architect.
January 15, 1976 • 1h
Edwin has written to his father reminding him that he wants to train as an architect. Darius is curious, while Edwin realises that...Read more
January 22, 1976 • 1h
While Edwin continues to work as an assistant at his father's printing works, eyebrows are raised when Hilda Lessways becomes the ...Read more
January 29, 1976 • 1h
Hilda receives a telegram from London informing her that her mother is ill. Instead of leaving at once, she continues to work on t...Read more
February 5, 1976 • 1h
Hilda's feeling of responsibility for her mother's death has led her to a nervous breakdown. While still recovering in Miss Gailey...Read more
February 12, 1976 • 1h
Edwin spends an evening with the Orgreaves. He takes an instant dislike to Hilda, but when he leaves to take another look at the n...Read more
February 19, 1976 • 1h
After their day together at the Sunday School Centenary celebrations, Hilda and Edwin have become fascinated with each other. Edwi...Read more
February 26, 1976 • 1h
Miss Gailey tells Hilda that Cannon has taken a boarding house in Brighton, and expects them all to go and live there.
March 4, 1976 • 1h
Hilda has accepted George's proposal, but she's nervous of breaking the news to Miss Gailey, who is now a semi-permanent invalid.
March 11, 1976 • 1h
Hilda's secret marriage to George has ended disastrously with the discovery that it was bigamous. Deserted by him, she returns to ...Read more
March 18, 1976 • 1h
Hilda and Edwin declare their love for each other. But when she's forced to return to Brighton, Hilda has still not found the cour...Read more
March 25, 1976 • 1h
Edwin knows nothing of the role that Mr Shushions played in Darius's life, and is puzzled when Darius returns from his funeral in ...Read more
April 1, 1976 • 1h
Edwin has been told that his father had no more than two years to live. More than one of those years has now passed - and Edwin ha...Read more
April 8, 1976 • 1h
Close to death, Darius lets it be known that Edwin will inherit the whole of his business. As one chapter closes in Edwin's life, ...Read more
April 15, 1976 • 1h
Hilda's son arrives to stay with the Orgreaves. Janet tells Edwin that Hilda is now a widow.... and all his old feelings for Hilda are re-awakened.
April 22, 1976 • 1h
Edwin visits Hilda in Brighton, where he learns that her husband is, in fact, still alive.
April 29, 1976 • 1h
Hilda has told Edwin that she was never married to Cannon. Ignoring the hostility of Five Towns 'society', Edwin asks her to marry him.
May 6, 1976 • 1h
Edwin and Hilda have finally given a formal 'At Home' to celebrate their marriage - and Bursley seems to have accepted them. Hilda...Read more
May 13, 1976 • 1h
Hilda and Edwin have quarrelled about Edwin's plans to build a new printing works - he has not yet told her that he already made a...Read more
May 20, 1976 • 1h
Hilda is continuing to oppose Edwin's plans to extend the printing business.
May 27, 1976 • 1h
Hilda once again sees the man she thought she loved, but they cannot speak. George Cannon is a prisoner in Dartmoor.
June 3, 1976 • 1h
After their brief glimpse of George Cannon in Dartmoor prison, Edwin and Hilda return to the Five Towns. Not long after, George Cannon is released....
June 10, 1976 • 1h
Edwin is furious when Hilda insists on taking her son to London to visit an eye specialist. All the Clayhanger servants have left,...Read more
June 17, 1976 • 1h
Hilda remains in London while Edwin stays on with a seriously ill Auntie Hamps. To add to Edwin's gloom, Ingpen has had a serious ...Read more
June 24, 1976 • 1h
Hilda is determined that she and Edwin should live in the country. And unbeknown to Edwin, she has already decided on their future home....