How We Used To Live (1968)
- Genre
- drama television series, children's television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 7 seasons, 91 episodes
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This series follows fictional Yorkshire families through different time periods from the Victorian era to the 1970s. It mixes short dramas with real archive footage to show what life was like in the past.
educationaldramatichistoricalnostalgicseriousinformativeslow-burn
What happens
How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television. The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4. Written by Freda Kelsall, the series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the early 1970s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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