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Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC television serial and book relating the history of the women's suffrage movement, both edited by Midge Mackenzie. The drama series grew out of discussions between Mackenzie and the actress and singer Georgia Brown, who was dissatisfied at the lack of decent roles for women in TV drama. Brown enlisted the producer Verity Lambert in the project she and Mackenzie were devising to dramatise the struggle for women's suffrage, and the three women presented the idea to the BBC, which gave approval for the series. Originally they had hoped to use only female script writers but this proved impracticable. Male writers were used and the three female originators of the project later said they needed to remove from their scripts a number of 'innuendoes, misconceptions and untruths' indicative of what Georgia Brown termed "the male point of view".
Original Release
04/03/1974 on BBC
US Release
10/05/1975
Cast
Name | Character |
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Siân Phillips | Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst / Emmeline Pankhurst |
Patricia Quinn | Christabel Pankhurst |
Angela Down | Sylvia Pankhurst |
Georgia Brown | Annie Kenney |
Sally Miles | Flora Drummond |
Sheila Allen | Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence |
Maureen Pryor | Dr. Ethel Smyth |
Fulton Mackay | Keir Hardie |
Lans Traverse | Zelie Emerson / Zellie Emerson |
Michael Gough | Dr. Richard Pankhurst |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Pankhursts | Wednesday, 03 April 1974 |
2 | Annie Kenney | Wednesday, 10 April 1974 |
3 | Lady Constance Lytton | Wednesday, 17 April 1974 |
4 | Christabel Pankhurst | Wednesday, 24 April 1974 |
5 | Outrage | Wednesday, 01 May 1974 |
6 | Sylvia Pankhurst | Wednesday, 08 May 1974 |
Directors
Waris Hussein, Moira Armstrong
Writers
Ken Taylor, Douglas Livingstone, Alan Plater, Hugh Whitemore
Creators
Georgia Brown, Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert
Cast
Name | Character |
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Siân Phillips | Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst / Emmeline Pankhurst |
Patricia Quinn | Christabel Pankhurst |
Angela Down | Sylvia Pankhurst |
Georgia Brown | Annie Kenney |
Sally Miles | Flora Drummond |
Sheila Allen | Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence |
Maureen Pryor | Dr. Ethel Smyth |
Fulton Mackay | Keir Hardie |
Lans Traverse | Zelie Emerson / Zellie Emerson |
Michael Gough | Dr. Richard Pankhurst |
Suzan Cameron | Jessie Kenney |
Andonia Katsaros | Melvina Walker |
Peter Geddis | Lloyd George |
Sheila Grant | Teresa Billington |
Ronald Hines | Mr. Pethick-Lawrence |
Robert Hardy | Asquith |
Claire Davenport | Nurse Pine |
Judy Parfitt | Lady Constance Lytton |
Patience Collier | Lady Lytton |
Kenneth McClellan | Returning Officer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Verity Lambert | Producer |