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All Episodes of Clayhanger
Browse all episodes of Clayhanger
Season 1
7.5/1010 votesLast 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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.3/107 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
6.7/107 votesHIlda
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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.0/107 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
6.9/107 votesSin 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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.0/107 votesEscape 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.0/107 votesCentenary
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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.3/106 votesTaking 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.3/106 votesBrighton
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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.3/106 votesMarriage
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/1976
Hilda has accepted George's proposal, but she's nervous of breaking the news to Miss Gailey, who is now a semi-permanent invalid.
Director: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.8/105 votesLove
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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.6/105 votesPunishment
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/1976
Hilda and Edwin declare their love for each other. But when she's forced to return to Brighton, Hilda has still not found the courage to tell Edwin about her past.
Director: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
8.0/105 votesLaid 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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.8/105 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
8.0/106 votesThe Chain Is Broken
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/1976
Close to death, Darius lets it be known that Edwin will inherit the whole of his business. As one chapter closes in Edwin's life, another opens as he meets Hilda's son.
Director: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.8/105 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.4/105 votesEpidemic
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/22/1976
Edwin visits Hilda in Brighton, where he learns that her husband is, in fact, still alive.
Director: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.6/105 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPossessions
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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.4/105 votesA 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.2/105 votesThe Orgreave Calamity
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/1976
Hilda is continuing to oppose Edwin's plans to extend the printing business.
Director: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.0/105 votesDartmoor
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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.4/105 votesPrisoners
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: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.2/105 votesFall 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown
7.0/105 votesDeath and Dreams
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/17/1976
Hilda remains in London while Edwin stays on with a seriously ill Auntie Hamps. To add to Edwin's gloom, Ingpen has had a serious accident at the Benbow works and is not expected to live.
Director: David Reid
Writer: Unknown
7.4/105 votesThe 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: John Davies
Writer: Unknown