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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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