The way we used to live????

[johntheplamf]

I can remember(Mid 70's), Being ushered into my primary school's assembly hall to watch this programme, but IMDB has no trace of this programme about a family during WWII, anyone else remember this?

[keirah]

yeah i remember that we had to watch it at school but we watched it in the 80s my older sister watched it in the 70s 2. search the internet you may find it there the bbc made it y dont u write or call them

[keirah]

i mean i seen it in the 90s look in the business pages and they will have the number for bbc

[donut]

It was called "How we used to live" and was an ITV schools programme. There were a number of them made-"Early Victorians", "Late Victorians" and the one you remember-the ww2 one was "1936-1953". There may have been others aswell. They are still used in school today but I don't know if they've been updated.

[Jackanory]

It followed the lives of the Hodgkins family.

[KebabMeister]

I remember the WW2 'How We Used To Live'... actually I've just started humming the theme to it! :) The Dad was played by Leslie Schofield whose been in Star Wars, Eastenders, Dr.Who, Blakes 7, Johnny Briggs and many more TV programmes. After the WW2 'How We Used To Live', I think it moved into the 50s... I'm unsure, I can remember the 'rising sun' stained glass window on the front door being replaced by something more 'modern'. Most of the cast members changed and so I lost interest! I found this quote on the web - "are a few notably long-running programmes however: Yorkshire Television's historical drama-documentary series How We Used To Live began on Tuesday September 24th, 1968 and is still going on Channel 4 in 2003." I found the intro to the series here on Real Player - http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/schools/itvschoolsprogrammes2.html You can also request the theme from http://www.btinternet.com/~mark.ashall/Themes.htm#h

[KebabMeister]

Been thinking a bit more about it... not so certain it was Leslie Schofield now! I'm still thinking about it! :)