Series 1 (1976)

A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots
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January 8, 1976 • 50m

1919: Jack Ford returns to Gallowshields on Tyneside after service in the Great War. He befriends the Seaton family—parents Bill a...Read more

Say Hello... Say Tirra
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January 15, 1976 • 50m

Billy, Tom and old army buddy Matt try to involve Jack in the Labour movement but he seems disinterested. Bella takes in Harry, a ...Read more

Fish in Woolly Jumpers
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January 22, 1976 • 50m

Times are hard as the miners strike over a pay claim and Tom, now married with a son to keep as well as Mary, who has tuberculosis...Read more

Swords and Pick Handles
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January 29, 1976 • 50m

Jack visits Sir Horatio Manners, father of his late commanding officer, to gift him a sword. Manners knows this is a ploy for Jack...Read more

Coal Comfort
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February 5, 1976 • 50m

As the strike continues, Bill approaches an old friend, regarding the location of a mine shut down fifty years earlier. Tom pursue...Read more

Empire Day on the Slag Heap
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February 12, 1976 • 50m

The strike ends with no concessions won by the colliers. Jack triumphs at the factory and Manners suggests that he could do better...Read more

A First Time for Everything
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February 19, 1976 • 50m

Encouraged by French onion seller Pierre, Bella turns the front of the house into a shop, using some of Bill's compensation. Bill,...Read more

Paddy Boyle's Discharge
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February 26, 1976 • 50m

Mary dies. Jack is in a pub when he meets old army colleague Sid Hepburn, still a professional soldier who suggests that Jack ree...Read more

Angel on Horseback
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March 3, 1976 • 50m

Nurse Rosie Trotter returns to Gallowshields and is mutually attracted to Tom, though, out of respect for Mary, they agree to post...Read more

King for a Day
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March 11, 1976 • 50m

Dolly is pregnant and Jack jobless so he agrees to a proposition from Manners, who wants to buy a house from Lord Calderbeck. Jack...Read more

Happy New Year, Some Say
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March 18, 1976 • 50m

It is New Year's Eve and Glaswegian socialist lecturer Sandy Lewis joins Jack, whom he tells that the Labour party is in the ascen...Read more

Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
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March 25, 1976 • 50m

To the annoyance of her husband, Jessie has been nominated for the Labour Party executive and Jack antagonizes Dolly – who senses ...Read more

Kind-Hearted Rat with a Lifebelt
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April 1, 1976 • 50m

Tom is caught and remanded. Jack becomes the deputy branch secretary of the Union, getting the miners on side to dissuade them fro...Read more