A Family At War

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  • Premiered: Apr 1970
  • Episodes: 52
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Season 1
1x1
The Facts of Life
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 14, 1970
The episode begins with Edwin and Jean Ashton's wedding anniversary. David Ashton is expecting to be given a job in the printing works, but Sefton promotes his son to manager instead of .. show full overview
1x2
To Die For Spain
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 1970
Philip Ashton decides to return to Spain to rejoin his old brigade in the Spanish Civil War, much to the dismay of the rest of his family. After some time in Spain he is wounded and returns home.
1x3
Lines of Battle
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 28, 1970
June 1939: Margaret Ashton marries John Porter. Gwyn Roberts is in trouble.
1x4
The Summer Before the War
Episode overview
Air date
May 05, 1970
Margaret is busy evacuating schoolchildren and John is drafted. David now in the Airforce, meets a local girl, Peggy, whom he gets pregnant. Sheila decides she can't bear to have her .. show full overview
1x5
The Gate of the Year
Episode overview
Air date
May 12, 1970
Margaret is feeling the strain of living with John's Mother, and decides to pop home for the evening, as she has done often in the past. John gets an emergency posting overseas and has .. show full overview
1x6
The Breach in the Dyke
Episode overview
Air date
May 19, 1970
Tony Briggs agrees to help find a flat for Margaret and her baby. After an argument with Mrs. Porter, Margaret moves back home. John Porter is fighting in France, gets separated from the rest of his division and is hit by a lorry on the road.
1x7
The War Office Regrets
Episode overview
Air date
May 26, 1970
The Ashton family is still waiting for news of John Porter. Sheila has taken a job at the Naafi. David come home on a 48-hour leave and Sheila asks him if he knows a girl called Peggy .. show full overview
1x8
For Strategic Reasons
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 30, 1970
Excerpts from episodes 2, 3, 4, & 6 showing how Phillip Ashton came to be in Guernsey.
1x9
The Night They Hit No. 8
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 07, 1970
A night of bad air raids on Liverpool - David and Sheila's children can't be found.The local policeman brings a lost boy for the Ashton's to look after. Margaret gives birth to a son.
1x10
One of Ours
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 14, 1970
David Ashton is the navigator in a Wellington bomber crew in a raid over Germany and the aircraft is hit on the return home. Fred Ashton is angry about Sheila's relationship with Bob O' Connell.
1x11
Brothers in War
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 21, 1970
Robert, the youngest son is home from Nautical college. His mother will not be accept that he is now grown up, as this only means he will be called up. Peter Collins meets Freda again .. show full overview
1x12
If It's Got Your Number On It
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 28, 1970
Freda has to work late, and on the way home meets an Australian airman, Owen Thomas, in a public air raid shelter. She goes out with Owen for a week and is discovered with him one night .. show full overview
1x13 Season finale
The End of the Beginning
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 04, 1970
It is Christmas and their is much dissension in the Ashton family. An incendiary bomb has landed on the roof, revealing amongst the wreckage caused in the bedroom, a copy of Jean's .. show full overview

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