Shoulder to Shoulder

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~75 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
Creator Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert, Georgia Brown

Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)

Created by Midge Mackenzie , Verity Lambert , Georgia Brown
⭐ 3.3 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Pankhursts

1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will radically change all their lives.

E2 Annie Kenney

1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?

E3 Lady Constance Lytton

1908: Constance Lytton : daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any door was open for her.

E4 Christabel Pankhurst

Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?

E5 Outrage

The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.

E6 Sylvia Pankhurst

1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.