The A Word

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 3
Total Episodes 18
Original Language EN
Creator Keren Margalit

The A Word (2016)

Created by Keren Margalit
⭐ 4.0 / 5 (26 votes) 🎬 3 Seasons 📼 18 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Diagnosis

At Joe's birthday party, tensions rise when it's suggested he has communication problems.

E2 Home School

Following Joe’s diagnosis, Alison wants to protect her son and takes him out of school without telling Paul. He and Rebecca believe that Joe shouldn’t have to change to fit into the world.

E3 Therapy

Alison has to deal with a blast from her past after Maggie, a speech and language therapist, shows up to assess Joe.

E4 Sleepover

An impromptu attempt to win Joe some friends leads to a breakthrough moment for Alison, but how long can it last? Maurice and Louise come to blows over Joe, while Rebecca turns to Eddie for relationship advice.

E5 Goodbye

Alison is hit hard when Joe's helper Maya looks set to be deported. As Paul and Eddie discover their wives both want different things, Maurice is left kicking himself for letting Louise go.

E6 Lost

Alison brokers a peace with Paul in time for the gastropub opening, but Joe goes missing.

Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →