How We Used To Live
TV series
How We Used To Live
1968–, English, on ITV1.
How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.
- Seasons
- 7
- Episodes
- 91
- Episode length
- Varies
- Status
- Still running
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Latest episode
S9 E5: In Civil War: A Trial of Kingship
Aired 9 February 1993
Seasons 7
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Details
- First aired
- 24 September 1968
- Network
- ITV1
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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How We Used To Live has 7 seasons and 91 episodes.
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