Childhood

Season 1

6 episodes · Feb 16, 1977

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  • S1E1

    Baa Baa Blacksheep

    Feb 16, 1977

    A faithful adaptation of Kipling's riveting autobiographical short story, detailing a harrowing period of his life between the ages of 6 and 11, under the care of foster parents in England, while his parents lived in India.

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  • S1E2

    An Only Child

    Apr 28, 1977

    Michael O'Donovan has raised his son to believe in the English way of life, but this teaching must change with the coming of the Irish troubles in 1916.

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  • S1E3

    There Is a Happy Land

    May 5, 1977

    Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.

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  • S1E4

    A Great Day for Bonzo

    May 11, 1977

    Three children playing in a deserted barn encounter a mysterious stranger. He seems frightened of being discovered, and to get rid of them he gives them his dog Bonzo.

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  • S1E5

    Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies

    May 19, 1977

    Shortly before leaving for a camping trip, young Harry Braden teasingly tells his impressionable nine year old sister Easter that their father, a respected physician, is having an affair with one of his patients. Devoted to her father, Easter concocts an outrageous romantic affair in her mind, while befriending her father's "mistress". Harry later returns from his trip to find that Easter's wild imagination has created a tempest in a teacup for the bewildered adults.

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  • S1E6

    Possessions

    May 25, 1977

    When the father of a South Wales family dies during the Twenties depression, things become hard. But the widowed Cassie Pritchard and her three sons are determined to overcome the financial problems.

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