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Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the documentary series which aims to reunite family members after years of separation, and offers a lifeline for people who are desperate to find long-lost relatives.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Long Lost Family Season 14 Episode 4 - Tracey & Liz
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Tracey & Liz

    S14:E4

    Tracey Boyle, a woman who discovered she had a brother after her mother confided in her following a hospital stay. Carrying the weight of grief for years, Tracey’s mother had given up her first-born son for adoption at the age of 16. Determined to find him, Tracey sets out to let her brother know that he was always wanted. Liz Allward, who was adopted as a baby, shares her unusual intuition. Liz always felt she had a biological sister somewhere, and this unusual feeling was confirmed. Now, she longs to meet her sister and finally complete her family.

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  2. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    Ever since he discovered the truth about his real father at the age of 15, Wayne has been on a quest to find him. Debbie Gave her son up to save her marriage, she never stopped wanting him back in her life.

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  3. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #3 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Jennifer Wilson looks for her twin sister, from whom she was separated at birth when they were adopted by different couples. Karen Lloyd searches for her father, whom she has never met before.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    This episode features Jeannie Elgar, who last saw her brother Geoffrey when she was eight, and Kirsty West, who struggled with the decision she made as a teenager to have her son adopted.

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  5. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    Adopted as a baby, Laura McCarthy wants to find her mother and half sister. Sarah Gale was also adopted and had a happy childhood, but cannot rest until she finds her real mother.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

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  7. Long Lost Family Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

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  8. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Episode 1

    S2:E1

    Mark hopes to find his birth mother, and Stella looks for the daughter she gave up 50 years ago.

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  9. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Episode 2

    S2:E2

    Brenda Rhensius looks for the daughter she regrets giving up for adoption, and Maureen Clancy tries to find her brother.

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  10. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    Peter Arundel and Maureen Saville have both been searching for their birth mothers.

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  11. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Episode 4

    S2:E4

    A woman is determined to find the older sister that she has never met, while a daughter wants to be reunited with her father, whom she last saw when she was five years old.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Episode 5

    S2:E5

    Groom-to-be Bradlee Allen from south-east London hopes to track down his father before his wedding day in one week's time. The pair last met 10 years ago, when the estranged dad was turned away by his then 14-year-old son during a difficult period in the youngster's life. Bridget Eyles from Saffron Walden in Essex also asks for help in finding her birth mother after discovering at the age of 11 that she was adopted.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Episode 6

    S2:E6

    When she was 30, Fiona Dunn found out that she had a younger sister her family had kept secret from her. Three decades later she hopes to meet her sibling and make up for lost time. Anne Clegg enjoyed a happy childhood but always longed to know her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption 48 years ago. Anne has done everything in her power to track down her natural mum, but to no avail, so she calls on Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell for assistance.

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  14. Long Lost Family Season 2 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Episode 7

    S2:E7

    James Kynoch was six when he discovered the man he called `dad' was not his real father, his parents having divorced when he was just two. After years of getting no answers, he needs to finally find the man who last saw him as a toddler. Scarborough woman Lisa Nortcliff, 48, also asks for help to solve the mystery of her father. When she was 10, she discovered the woman she thought of as her older sister was actually her mother, and that her dad had been forbidden from seeing her once the pregnancy was discovered. She has spent years searching for this mystery man but is no closer to finding him. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell aim to succeed where she has failed.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Episode 1

    S3:E1

    Sue has been searching for the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption, for over forty years. Alan is desperate to understand why his birth mother gave him up for adoption.

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  16. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Episode 2

    S3:E2

    We hear two lives shaped by unanswered letters. Wendy has never met her father and Helen is searching for her son who she was forced to give up for adoption more than thirty years ago.

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  17. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Episode 3

    S3:E3

    David and Paul Shannon are searching for their father who disappeared from their lives when they were young boys. The family moved from Liverpool to South Africa in the early 1970s and returned a few years later when things did not work out. After a brief stay in England, their father went back to South Africa and, apart from one brief sighting, David and Paul have never seen him again. Also featured is Julia Evans, who grew up believing her mother had rejected her when she walked out of the family home when Julia was a baby. Her family's strict religious beliefs isolated her from the other kids in town, and at 16 Julia was cast out of the community for being a sinner. Ever since, Julia has longed to find her mother believing that she too might have been forced to leave.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Episode 4

    S3:E4

    This week on Long Lost Family two stories of children separated from their parents. Long distance lorry driver, Laurence Peat was given up for adoption at birth. Despite a happy childhood and loving adoptive parents, it has been as an adult that he has been unable to shake off the feeling that he was unwanted. For decades Laurence has lived with this sense of rejection which has affected his own ability to have successful relationships. In the hope that finding his birth mother would make this feeling go away, Laurence set out to track down his birth mother but the information on his adoption file led him nowhere. Now, he is making one final attempt to find her and lay to rest his sense of being unwanted. Also, the story of Denise Temple desperate to find her daughter who she battled to keep when she gave birth to her nearly fifty years ago. Originally from Yorkshire, Denise now lives in Spain.

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  19. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Episode 5

    S3:E5

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the series which sets out to reunite family members after years of separation. Robert Capron is 53, a devoted family man who lives in Devon but whose life today contrasts starkly with the world in which he grew up. At the age of two, Robert's mother abandoned him and not until his father's death was Robert able to start piecing together what little information he could find about her. After more than a decade of searching he is no closer to tracing her. Twin sisters Gail and Juliet Newmarch are 51. Their twin brothers were given up for adoption when they were very young. In fact, Gail and Juliet had no idea the boys existed until their father told them when they were in their teens. Their mother could not bear to talk about why she had done what she did and it was only when she died that Gail and Juliet felt able to start a search for their brothers.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Episode 6

    S3:E6

    Fifty-year-old Sharon Temple Sowerby grew up caught in a tug of love between two mothers. When she was a girl, Sharon discovered that the mother she knew of as 'mam' was not in fact her birth mother. Over the years, as the truth gradually emerged, Sharon discovered that she had been taken from her birth mother at only one hour old and given to a couple desperate for a child, who brought her up as their own. But Sharon also discovered that legally she was never theirs. Sharon's birth mother had refused to ever sign adoption papers and on several occasions actually asked for Sharon back. This tug of love continued until Sharon moved away to Germany with her parents. Heartbroken by these discoveries, Sharon has been searching for her birth mother for nearly thirty years but without success. Watch what happens when we take on this seemingly impossible search and meet the man searching for the same woman, who is also his birth mother.

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  21. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Episode 7

    S3:E7

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the series which sets out to reunite family members after years of separation. Fifty one-year-old Londoner Chris Jones is searching for his sister who he last saw when she was a baby. Chris has little knowledge about his mother's past, but knows that his sister was born in a remote Northumberland vicarage, and that is where he starts looking for clues. Polly Gillon is searching for her eldest son who she was forced to give up for adoption in 1959. Polly grew up with her father in South London in the 1950s and when he discovered she was pregnant, he forced her to make a heart-breaking decision. She was given the choice: give her baby up for adoption or never come home. With no one else to turn to, Polly finally accepted her father's terms and gave her baby up. She has spent a lifetime regretting this decision and is desperate to ask her son to forgive her.

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  22. Long Lost Family Season 3 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Episode 8

    S3:E8

    Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell uncover more family secrets. Val Milnes became pregnant at 18, and knowing that her strict father would never allow her to keep the child, she made the heartbreaking decision to give him up for adoption. She watched as he was taken away by his new parents with the case of clothes she had carefully prepared. Seventeen years later, Val suffered an accident which left her paralysed and tried to establish contact with her son, sending him a series of letters. The fact that these letters went unanswered has haunted her ever since. In the second of tonight's stories, Donna Leaver told her father Pat in a telephone call that she did not want him in her life any more when she was 6 years old. Taking her word for it, Pat disappeared and made no further attempt to contact her.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Long Lost Family Season 4 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Episode 1

    S4:E1

    Ann Munro, 63, from Ringwood in Hampshire, gave up her son for adoption when she was 21 and her life ever since has been overshadowed by guilt and the longing to ask for his forgiveness. Louise Kendall, a 28-year-old nurse, lives in Bradford with her four-year-old son. She's hoping to meet her French father for the first time as she travels to Dijon, the city where her parents fell in love.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Long Lost Family Season 4 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Episode 2

    S4:E2

    Sara Price-Parker, 44, decided to trace her birth mother Denise after the death of her adoptive mum, but her 25-year search ended in disappointment when she discovered her parent had emigrated to Jamaica in the 1970s. Sara is now turning to Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell as her last hope to establish contact. Pauline Wood, 77, always longed for a sibling to play with while growing up as an adopted only child. At the age of 28, she learned her birth parents later got married and had a son, but the quest to find her brother has gone on for decades to no avail.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Long Lost Family Season 4 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Episode 3

    S4:E3

    Family man Richard Cue, 57, has always felt grateful for the love and support he received from his adoptive parents, so he wants to find his birth mother to thank her for the sacrifice she made in giving him up in 1957. Having accessed his records, however, he has been searching for almost a decade with little success. Tania Bartlett's mother Julie fell pregnant to Iranian student Ahmed Kazem in the early 1960s, but the couple drifted apart when Julie felt unable to join Ahmed to start a new life in America. Despite intermittent contact with her father in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tania has spent the past 30 years searching for him, not knowing if he is even alive. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell bring these families back together.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Tracey & Liz" is the best rated episode of "Long Lost Family". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/12/2024. This episode scored 1.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 2".