kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) (01/11/85)
In the middle/late 1970's some public television stations
aired a multi-episode dramatic series called "A Family at
War." It followed a British working class family from
Liverpool through their oldest child's involvement in the
Spanish Civil War through his death in 1946. These are
merely chronological outlines. The program dealt with all
the members of the Ashton, Briggs, and Porter families in
often painful detail; and none of the 50+ episodes was any-
thing less than completely engrossing, superbly written,
and performed with the kind of grit and polish one has come to
expect from modern British actors. The trouble is: it
disappeared around 1977, and to my knowledge has never again
appeared on public (or any other) tv in the New York metro-
politan area. Did anyone see these remarkable shows. Do
you remember them? One man's humble opinion: some episodes
of "The Forsyte Saga" reached the place from which most
episodes of "A Family at War" BEGAN.
--
Ken Wolman
Bell Communications Research @ Livingston
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