How We Used To Live

Sep 24, 1968 (en) [0] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 24, 1968
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    How We Used To Live
  • Release
    Sep 24, 1968
  • en
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Overview

How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Season 1 ( 1968-09-24)

Victorian Britain: The Big House

Episode: 1

Season 4 ( )

1902: Home from the War

Episode: 1

1903: Chapel on Sunday

Episode: 2

1905: Bank Holiday

Episode: 3

1906: Vote for Change

Episode: 4

1909: The People's Budget

Episode: 5

1910: Out of Work

Episode: 6

1911: In the Country

Episode: 7

1912: The Children's Charter

Episode: 8

1913: The Right to Vote

Episode: 9

1914: Over by Christmas

Episode: 10

1916: Called Up

Episode: 11

1917: The Right to Serve

Episode: 12

1918: The Need to Share

Episode: 13

1919: Epidemic

Episode: 14

1920: Hill Climb

Episode: 15

1921: Roof Fall

Episode: 16

1922: The Electric Light

Episode: 17

1924: The Cat's Whisker

Episode: 18

1925: The Roaring Twenties

Episode: 19

1926: The General Strike

Episode: 20

Season 5 ( 1981-09-23)

1936 Head of the Family

Episode: 1

1937 Counting the Cost

Episode: 2

1938 Holiday with Pay

Episode: 3

1939: Hospital Case

Episode: 4

1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere

Episode: 5

1940: Home from Home

Episode: 6

1942: Stars and Stripes

Episode: 7

1943: Make Do and Mend

Episode: 8

1943: Take a Man’s Place

Episode: 9

1944: Peace on Earth

Episode: 10

1945: Let us Face the Future

Episode: 11

1946: Full Supporting Programme

Episode: 12

1947: Cold Comfort

Episode: 13

1947: A New Look

Episode: 14

1948: Full Steam Ahead

Episode: 15

1948: On the National Health

Episode: 16

1949: On the Move

Episode: 17

1951: A Tonic for the Nation

Episode: 18

1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road

Episode: 19

1953: Your Undoubted Queen

Episode: 20

Season 6 ( )

1954: Land of Plenty

Episode: 1

1955: Home Before Nine

Episode: 2

1956: Keeping Britain Great

Episode: 3

1957: Commercial Breaks

Episode: 4

1958: Easter Holiday

Episode: 5

1959: Separate Schools

Episode: 6

1960: Women’s Wrongs

Episode: 7

1961: Rising High

Episode: 8

1962: Strangers on the Shore

Episode: 9

1963: Our Kind of Music

Episode: 10

1964: Mini on the Motorway

Episode: 11

1965: Last Train from Mill Road

Episode: 12

1966: Amazing Reductions

Episode: 13

1966: Eyes Down at the Roxy

Episode: 14

1967: Flower Power

Episode: 15

1967: The Big Clean Up

Episode: 16

1968: No Fun Being Old

Episode: 17

1969: On the Moon

Episode: 18

1969: Twin Towns

Episode: 19

1970: Coming of Age

Episode: 20

Season 7 ( 1990-09-18)

Victorians Early and Late: A Time Of Change

Episode: 1

Victorians Early and Late: Family Cares

Episode: 2

Victorians Early and Late: Proper Jobs

Episode: 3

Victorians Early and Late: Fatal Mixture

Episode: 4

Victorians Early and Late: Rights And Wrongs

Episode: 5

Victorians Early and Late: Half A Century On

Episode: 6

Victorians Early and Late: A Model Village

Episode: 7

Victorians Early and Late: The Hidden Tenth

Episode: 8

Victorians Early and Late: A Bible And A Rose

Episode: 9

Victorians Early and Late: Utopia Limited

Episode: 10

Season 8 ( 1991-01-08)

Expansion, Trade and Industry: Trading Places

Episode: 1

Expansion, Trade and Industry: Home and Colonial

Episode: 2

Expansion, Trade and Industry: Country Patriots Born

Episode: 3

Expansion, Trade and Industry: Country Patriots Born

Episode: 4

Expansion, Trade and Industry: The Workshop of the World

Episode: 5

Half a Century on

Episode: 6

A model village

Episode: 7

The hidden truth

Episode: 8

A bible and a rose

Episode: 9

Utopia Limited

Episode: 10

Trading places

Episode: 11

Home and Colonial

Episode: 12

Country Patriots Born 1832

Episode: 13

Property rights

Episode: 14

Workshop of the world

Episode: 15

Season 9 ( 1993-01-12)

In Civil War: A Trial of Force

Episode: 1

In Civil War: The Fugitive

Episode: 2

In Civil War: Know Thine Enemy

Episode: 3

In Civil War: Truth or Treason

Episode: 4

In Civil War: A Trial of Kingship

Episode: 5
Sep 24, 1968 (en)
[0] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 24, 1968
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 60%
Original Title How We Used To Live
en

Overview

How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer