Missdee

I have just watched the complete 3 series of A Family at War, and loved it just as much as the first time I saw it when it was first shown many many years ago, fantastic British television.

hankoler

I would have to agree with you there, I wish it was repeated here .

Missdee

I had to buy the series via the internet, but well worth it

Captain Oates

I agree that A Family At War is British drama at its best. The slow pace allowed really detailed character development that made the viewer really care about what happened to them. Modern drama is too scared to let a story play out at this pace for fear of alienating the short-attention span modern audience.

I have two observations about A Family At War that seem to be overlooked:

(1) the series is set in Liverpool but uses no recognisable locations and, more noticably, all the characters' accents are Lancashire rather than Scouse...It would be more plausible that Manchester is the real setting, with the references to Liverpool being a last minute whim. Granada have long been criticised for being Manchester-centric and weak on Liverpool coverage, so was this change a reaction to that? (I suspect many TV execs still worried about real Liverpool accents being let loose on the world - by this time, Coronation St had allowed the Lancashire tongue to reach the masses, but not much else.

(2) why did unions think it justfiable to deface works of art (several episodes being forced into B&W) for sake of some minor dispute? (This problem had also affected Budgie, Upstairs Downstairs and others.)

faginsgirl

I vauguely remember this. I wish they were all repeated so we can remember them ALL.


Hankoler I like your Avator, one of my fave actors!

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nickgilbert

You'd think the masses would be used to scouse at that time with The Liver Birds, Beatles, Liverpool poets and Tony Booth in Til Death!

Some lists and TV Times covers at:

homepage.mac.com/nickgilbert