Season 1

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  7.9/108 votes

  Last of a Schoolboy

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1976

  July 1872 - It is Edwin Clayhanger's last day at school. Everyone expects that he will enter his father's printing business, but Edwin has very different ideas about his future.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/106 votes

  The Architect

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/1976

  Edwin becomes a hero - he wins his fathers admiration, but is no nearer to the realisation of his own ambitions to become an architect.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.8/106 votes

  HIlda

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1976

  Edwin has written to his father reminding him that he wants to train as an architect. Darius is curious, while Edwin realises that a summons from his aunt means the battle has come to a head...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/106 votes

  The Five Towns Chronicle and Turnhill Guardian

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/1976

  While Edwin continues to work as an assistant at his father's printing works, eyebrows are raised when Hilda Lessways becomes the first woman in the Five Towns to learn shorthand - in order to work for George Cannon.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/106 votes

  Sin and Romance

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1976

  Hilda receives a telegram from London informing her that her mother is ill. Instead of leaving at once, she continues to work on the first edition of Cannon's newspaper.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/106 votes

  Escape to Bleakridge

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/1976

  Hilda's feeling of responsibility for her mother's death has led her to a nervous breakdown. While still recovering in Miss Gailey's boarding house, she hears that Cannon is insisting on visiting her.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/106 votes

  Centenary

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/1976

  Edwin spends an evening with the Orgreaves. He takes an instant dislike to Hilda, but when he leaves to take another look at the new Clayhanger house, she secretly follows him...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/106 votes

  Taking a Share

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/1976

  After their day together at the Sunday School Centenary celebrations, Hilda and Edwin have become fascinated with each other. Edwin is both excited and unnerved at the prospect of their becoming neighbours.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/106 votes

  Brighton

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/1976

  Miss Gailey tells Hilda that Cannon has taken a boarding house in Brighton, and expects them all to go and live there.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/106 votes

  Marriage

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/1976

  Hilda has accepted George's marriage proposal, but is nervous of breaking the news to Miss Gailey, who is now a semi-permanent invalid.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/105 votes

  Love

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/1976

  Hilda's secret marriage to George has ended disastrously with the discovery that it was bigamous. Deserted by him, she returns to Bursley to stay with the Orgreaves. On the night of her arrival there is a visitor - Edwin.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/105 votes

  Punishment

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/1976

  Hilda and Edwin declare their love for each other. But when she is forced to return to Brighton, Hilda has still not found the courage to tell Edwin about her past.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/105 votes

  Laid Aside

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/25/1976

  Edwin knows nothing of the role that Mr Shushions played in Darius's life, and is puzzled when Darius returns from his funeral in a state of shock. But subsequent events force new responsibilities on Edwin...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/105 votes

  The Glorious Jubilee

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/1976

  Edwin has been told that his father had no more than two years to live. More than one of those years has now passed - and Edwin has assumed complete control of the family business.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/106 votes

  The Chain is Broken

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/1976

  Darius Clayhanger is close to death and lets it be known that Edwin will inherit the whole of his business. As one chapter closes in Edwin's life, another opens. He meets Hilda's son.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/105 votes

  The Adventure

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/15/1976

  Hilda's son arrives to stay with the Orgreaves. Janet tells Edwin that Hilda is now a widow.... and all his old feelings for Hilda are re-awakened.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/105 votes

  Epidemic

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/22/1976

  Edwin has visited Hilda in Brighton, and has been told that he husband is, in fact, still alive.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/105 votes

  The Exquisite Burden

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/1976

  Hilda has told Edwin that she was never married to Cannon. Ignoring the hostility of Five Towns 'society', Edwin asks her to marry him.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Possessions

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/1976

  Edwin and Hilda have finally given a formal 'At Home' to celebrate their marriage - and Bursley seems to have accepted them. Hilda feels safe and financially secure, but Edwin is already making new plans for the business....

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/105 votes

  A Musical Evening

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/1976

  Hilda and Edwin have quarrelled about Edwin's plans to build a new printing works - he has not yet told her that he already made an offer for the land.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/105 votes

  The Orgreave Calamity

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/1976

  Hilda is continuing to oppose Edwin's plans to extend the printing business.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/105 votes

  Dartmoor

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/1976

  Hilda once again sees the man she thought she loved, but they cannot speak. George Cannon is a prisoner in Dartmoor.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/105 votes

  Prisoners

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/3/1976

  After their brief glimpse of George Cannon in Dartmoor prison, Edwin and Hilda return to the Five Towns. Not long after, George Cannon is released....

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/105 votes

  Fall From Glory

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/10/1976

  Edwin is furious when Hilda insists on taking her son to London to visit an eye specialist. All the Clayhanger servants have left, and Edwin is forced to stay with Auntie Hamps.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/105 votes

  Death and Dreams

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/17/1976

  Hilda remains in London while Edwin stays on with Auntie Hamps, who is seriously ill. To add to Edwin's gloom, Ingpen has had a serious accident at the Benbow works and is not expected to live.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/105 votes

  The Discovery

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 6/24/1976

  Hilda is determined that she and Edwin should live in the country. And unbeknown to Edwin, she has already decided on their future home....

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown