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Shoulder to Shoulder

TV·1974–1974·1 season, 6 episodes·BBC Two·Drama·1h 15m·Created by Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert, Georgia Brown

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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.

Cast

Siân PhillipsSiân PhillipsEmmeline PankhurstPatricia QuinnPatricia QuinnChristabel Pankhurst

Episodes by season

Season016Episodes1974Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Shoulder to Shoulder S01E01The PankhurstsApril 3, 1974—1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will ra
  2. S01E02Shoulder to Shoulder S01E02Annie KenneyApril 10, 1974—1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
  3. S01E03Shoulder to Shoulder S01E03Lady Constance LyttonApril 17, 1974—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 f
  4. S01E04Shoulder to Shoulder S01E04Christabel PankhurstApril 24, 1974—Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the
  5. S01E05Shoulder to Shoulder S01E05OutrageMay 1, 1974—The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
  6. S01E06Shoulder to Shoulder S01E06Sylvia PankhurstMay 8, 1974—1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.

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