A Family At War - Series 1 [DVD]

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A Family At War - Series 1 [DVD]

A Family At War - Series 1 [DVD]

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Coral Atkins witnessed the distress of a young child in foster care while appearing at a charity event one day. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We’d been wondering where Philip had gone … there are many reasons why characters get written out of long term series, and plot is only one of them. The USA has a different TV system to the UK so you need to check that DVDs are compatible before purchasing from the UK.

In the North African Desert, seagrass sprouts from the dunes, the sky is grey, and in at least one shot the grey sea is seen in the distance. The central character, paterfamilias Edwin (Colin Douglas) appears in only a couple of short scenes. But as its title suggests, A Family at War pays equal attention to private and domestic politics as it does to the public political sphere and its female characters are at least as complex and intriguing as its men, from the matriarchal Jean, to her eldest daughter Margaret (Leslie Nunnerley) who endures a fraught relationship with her jealous mother-in-law Celia Porter (Margery Mason), to David’s long-suffering wife Sheila (Coral Atkins), through to the skittish youngest Ashton daughter Freda (Barbara Flynn). So you could say that the 52 episodes of A Family at War, each of which took two weeks to rehearse and shoot, were spread over two years of continuous work.That’s quite a responsibility because, as one of the directors said, “Two years is a hell of a long time to be wrong! This two week production schedule for each episode was based on a method which has been abandoned now but was, in the early decades of TV drama, a most economical pattern. The older Stout girls seized the opportunity to broaden their horizons in Shetland, London, France and Germany. Colin Douglas was magnificent in this series as was the rest of the cast which starred in this story of the Ashton family as they made their way through those difficult times of World War Two.

It was thought wise to make a pilot episode so that the production team and the company executives could judge how successful our efforts in casting had been. Your readers ought to know that the Norwegian/Dutch set is the COMPLETE version, whereas the Acorn set has about 30 minutes of small cuts that were made for commercial inserts. And in any case, the intrigues and affairs, the stand-up rows and the unspoken tensions are all sufficiently fascinating to make A Family at War a deeply compelling drama.This year, to mark Remembrance Day and pay homage to those who gave so much for our freedoms, I thought I would share a book review of a recent publication based in Shetland and focused on the First World War period. Granada appealed to the public to send in their old gas-masks, ration books and identity cards and, for added authenticity, the cast had to have their hair cut to the short back and sides of the period. A lot of actors refused parts in A Family At War for that very reason, and some extras walked off the set rather than have the snip. You could say ‘A Family At War’ was the equivalent of a ‘EastEnders’ soap opera drama during war-time. The classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War.

Several brief scenes cut from the Acorn set do appear in the Netherlands set, such as the scene referenced above. Colin Campbell and Coral Atkins who played David and Sheila Ashton were also particular favourites and Coral was later the subject of a television biography on account of her work with deprived children. So much of the literature of Shetland focuses on crofting communities and the traditional way of life of rural communities. June 2017 – A Family At War (52 episodes) has started being repeated on the ‘Talking Pictures’ channel Freeview TV http://talkingpicturestv. This praised the authenticity of the setting and costumes, as at that point directors, designers and the senior members of the cast still remembered the war.It looks as though this programme may be in danger of dropping off the popular radar, not to mention the academic radar; for instance, it isn’t included in Lez Cooke’s excellent overview British Television Drama (* see |Les Cooke’s further work), even as a footnote.



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