A Family at War

A Family at war
Genre	Drama
Created by	John Finch
Developed by	Granada Television Manchester
Starring	Colin Douglas Barbara Flynn Leslie Nunnerley Coral Atkins
Theme music composer	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	52
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	14 April 1970 – 16 February 1972

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972. It was created by John Finch and made by Granada Television for ITV. The director was David Giles.

The series was transmitted between 1970 and 1972 and examined the lives of the lower middle-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences from 1938 and through the Second World War. Despite being set in Liverpool none of the regular characters spoke with a scouse accent.

Fifty-two episodes were produced, all but eight of them in colour. Episodes numbers 25 through 32 were filmed in black and white because of the ITV Colour Strike.

The memorable theme tune is from the First Movement (Allegro) of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony.

Cast

• Colin Douglas as Edwin Ashton
• Barbara Flynn as Freda Ashton
• Leslie Nunnerley as Margaret Porter
• Coral Atkins as Sheila Ashton
• John McKelvey as Sefton Briggs
• Colin Campbell as David Ashton
• Shelagh Fraser as Jean Ashton
• T.R. Bowen as Tony Briggs
• Ian Thompson as John Porter
• Keith Drinkel as Philip Ashton
• Diana Davies as Doris Jackson
• John Nettles as Ian Mackenzie
• Mark Jones as Michael Armstrong
• Margery Mason as Celia Porter
• Patrick Troughton as Harry Porter

DVD release

All episodes of A Family at War are available on DVD in the UK, distributed by Acorn Media UK. The first series has been available in the USA from Amazon.com.

External links

• A Family at War at the Internet Movie Database
• A Family at war at TV.com
• A Family at War (Fan Site)