Series 1
(1976)
Cast
as Jack Ford
as Tom Seaton
Episodes
A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots 0.0
January 8, 1976
1919: Jack Ford returns to Gallowshields on Tyneside after service in the Great War. He befriends the Seaton family—par…
Say Hello... Say Tirra 0.0
January 15, 1976
Billy, Tom and old army buddy Matt try to involve Jack in the Labour movement but he seems disinterested. Bella takes i…
Fish in Woolly Jumpers 0.0
January 22, 1976
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 t…
Swords and Pick Handles 0.0
January 29, 1976
Jack visits Sir Horatio Manners, father of his late commanding officer, to gift him a sword. Manners knows this is a pl…
Coal Comfort 0.0
February 5, 1976
As the strike continues, Bill approaches an old friend, regarding the location of a mine shut down fifty years earlier.…
Empire Day on the Slag Heap 0.0
February 12, 1976
The strike ends with no concessions won by the colliers. Jack triumphs at the factory and Manners suggests that he coul…
A First Time for Everything 0.0
February 19, 1976
Encouraged by French onion seller Pierre, Bella turns the front of the house into a shop, using some of Bill's compensa…
Paddy Boyle's Discharge 0.0
February 26, 1976
Mary dies. Jack is in a pub when he meets old army colleague Sid Hepburn, still a professional soldier who suggests th…
Angel on Horseback 0.0
March 3, 1976
Nurse Rosie Trotter returns to Gallowshields and is mutually attracted to Tom, though, out of respect for Mary, they ag…
King for a Day 0.0
March 11, 1976
Dolly is pregnant and Jack jobless so he agrees to a proposition from Manners, who wants to buy a house from Lord Calde…
Happy New Year, Some Say 0.0
March 18, 1976
It is New Year's Eve and Glaswegian socialist lecturer Sandy Lewis joins Jack, whom he tells that the Labour party is i…
Heads You Win, Tails I Lose 0.0
March 25, 1976
To the annoyance of her husband, Jessie has been nominated for the Labour Party executive and Jack antagonizes Dolly – …
Kind-Hearted Rat with a Lifebelt 0.0
April 1, 1976
Tom is caught and remanded. Jack becomes the deputy branch secretary of the Union, getting the miners on side to dissua…