Home fires. Season 1
by
 
Block, Simon, creator, screenwriter.

Title
Home fires. Season 1

Author
Block, Simon, creator, screenwriter.
 
Goodison, Bruce, television director.
 
Quinn, Robert, television director.
 
Beauvoir, Sue de, television producer.
 
Gwilt, Jeremy, television producer.
 
Bond, Samantha, 1962- actor.
 
Annis, Francesca, 1945- actor.
 
Gemmell, Ruth, actor.
 
Badger, Daisy, actor.
 
Bazeley, Mark, actor.
 
Best, Leanne, actor.
 
Bonnar, Mark, actor.
 
Calbraith, Clare, 1974- actor.
 
Coghill, Chris, actor.
 
Grey, Frances, actor.
 
Hurd-Wood, Rachel, 1990- actor.
 
Mimmack, Leila, actor.
 
Noble, Mike, actor.
 
Price, Claire, actor.
 
Rushbrook, Claire, actor.
 
Ryan, Daniel, 1968- actor.
 
Stoppard, Ed, actor.
 
Woolgar, Fenella, actor.
 
Summers, Julie.
 
ITV Studios, production company.
 
ITV (Firm), broadcaster.
 
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster.
 
PBS Distribution (Firm), distirbutor.

Series
Masterpiece theatre.

Summary
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

Audience
TV rating: TV-14.

General Note
Originally broadcast on television in Great Britain in 2015 on ITV. Edited episodes originally broadcast on television in the United States on PBS in 2015 as a part of the television program Masterpiece Theater.
 
Inspired by the book Jambusters by Julie Summers.
 
Widescreen.

Edition
Full UK-length edition.

Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre
Historical television programs.
 
Fiction television programs.
 
Television melodramas.
 
Television series.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Corporate Subject
National Federation of Women's Institutes -- Drama.

Subject Term
Rural women -- Social conditions -- Drama.
 
Women in war -- Drama.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Geographic Term
Great Britain -- Drama.

Author(s)
Block, Simon,
 
Goodison, Bruce,
 
Quinn, Robert,
 
Beauvoir, Sue de,
 
Gwilt, Jeremy,
 
Bond, Samantha, 1962-
 
Annis, Francesca, 1945-
 
Gemmell, Ruth,
 
Badger, Daisy,
 
Bazeley, Mark,
 
Best, Leanne,
 
Bonnar, Mark,
 
Calbraith, Clare, 1974-
 
Coghill, Chris,
 
Grey, Frances,
 
Hurd-Wood, Rachel, 1990-
 
Mimmack, Leila,
 
Noble, Mike,
 
Price, Claire,
 
Rushbrook, Claire,
 
Ryan, Daniel, 1968-
 
Stoppard, Ed,
 
Woolgar, Fenella,
 
Summers, Julie.

Added Corporate Author
ITV Studios,
 
ITV (Firm),
 
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),
 
PBS Distribution (Firm),

Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution,

Publication Date
2015

ISBN
9781627894654

Publication Information
[Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2015]

Call Number
DVD HOMEFIR


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