Season 1 (1976)

Last of a Schoolboy
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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

The Architect
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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.

HIlda
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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

The Five Towns Chronicle and Turnhill Guardian
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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

Sin and Romance
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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

Escape to Bleakridge
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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

Centenary
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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

Taking a Share
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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

Brighton
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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.

Marriage
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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.

Love
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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

Punishment
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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

Laid Aside
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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

The Glorious Jubilee
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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

The Chain Is Broken
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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

The Adventure
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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.

Epidemic
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April 22, 1976 • 1h

Edwin visits Hilda in Brighton, where he learns that her husband is, in fact, still alive.

The Exquisite Burden
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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.

Possessions
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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

A Musical Evening
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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

The Orgreave Calamity
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May 20, 1976 • 1h

Hilda is continuing to oppose Edwin's plans to extend the printing business.

Dartmoor
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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.

Prisoners
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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....

Fall from Glory
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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

Death and Dreams
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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

The Discovery
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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....