Shoulder to Shoulder
8.5
Season 1
75 min
S1 · E1 · Apr 3, 1974
The Pankhursts Episode 1
75 min
S1 · E2 · Apr 10, 1974
Annie Kenney Episode 2
75 min
S1 · E3 · Apr 17, 1974
Lady Constance Lytton Episode 3
75 min
S1 · E4 · Apr 24, 1974
Christabel Pankhurst Episode 4
75 min
S1 · E5 · May 1, 1974
Outrage Episode 5
75 min
S1 · E6 · May 8, 1974
Sylvia Pankhurst Episode 6
6 episodes in Season 1
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“How women fought for the vote”
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.
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Cast
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Siân Phillips
Emmeline Pankhurst
Known for
I, Claudius
Attila
Patricia Quinn
Christabel Pankhurst
Known for
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Georgia Brown
Annie Kenney
Known for
Tales That Witness Madness
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Angela Down
Sylvia Pankhurst
Known for
Emma
Sally Miles
Flora Drummond
Also in
Open All Hours
Private's Progress
Sheila Allen
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence
Known for
The Towering Inferno
The Poseidon Adventure
Maureen Pryor
Dr Ethel Smyth
Known for
The Music Lovers
The Black Windmill
Fulton Mackay
Keir Hardie
Known for
Porridge
Local Hero
Ronald Hines
Mr Pethick-Lawrence
Known for
Jack the Ripper
Dunkirk
Robert Hardy
Asquith
Known for
The 10th Kingdom
Gulliver's Travels
Michael Gough
Dr Richard Pankhurst
Known for
Batman Returns
Corpse Bride
Lans Traverse
Zellie Emerson
Also in
The Deadly Females
Gideon's Way
Verity Lambert Creator · Georgia Brown Creator Midge Mackenzie Creator
Creator
Verity Lambert
Creator
Georgia Brown
Creator
Midge Mackenzie
Director
Waris Hussein
Director
Moira Armstrong
Writer
Ken Taylor
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Alan Plater
Composer
Stanley Myers
Cinematographer
Ken Westbury
Cinematographer
Peter Hall
Editor
Chris Lovett
Editor
Alan Cumner-Price
Costume designer
Joan Ellacott
Total runtime 7h 30m · Episode length 75 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
April 3, 1974
Final episode
May 8, 1974
Status
Ended
Network
BBC Two
Country
United Kingdom
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
75 min
Total runtime
7h 30m
Original language
English
Production
BBC
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Spoken on screen
English
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