I'd just had my son back in 82 when this was on the telly. I thoroughly enjoyed it and looked forward to each episode. The BBC captured the era so well with great attention to detail
I bought the book when i was in the army, stationed in Germany in 1966, I was 19 years old and I sat in a cafe in the camp one Sunday and read the book all the way through in one day. I have never forgotten the impact the book had on me because all the characters could have been in my own family. I have been a fan of Stan Barstow ever since.
I'm from Glasgow originally and now live in Florida but I went to college in Manchester and worked in Blackburn in the 60's. I still get a wave of nostalgia and yearning when I hear the Lancashire accent. So many people were so good to me as a clueless teenager away from home. Great memories.
Lancashire is very different from the rest of England, culturally another country. There doesn’t seem to be a class system and people are accepted at face value. There was certainly a hierarchy particularly in a working environment but it was more to do with merit than connections.
@@paulwild3676 no doubt in the past, but a different place now. Certainly a lot of poverty and culture clashes these days. This series depicts a lovely time when there was work in the towns of Lancashire and indeed the North of England.
Well, you either didn't grow up in the 1970s/80s, or didn't watch much tv back then. If you grew up in rrecent years, you sadly missed a lot of great tv drama from back in the day, before political correctness and wokeness!
Great series, remember watching it with my dad all those years ago after mum passed away. Almost as good as the film with Alan Bates and Thora Hird. Brings back a lot of memories.
I remember watching this when it first was aired and I never noticed this at the time but I am a kid of around this time, Well this is supposedly the late 50's and I was born In 58. Working class families didn't have TV that early and TV shut down really early I the evening, anyway so there wouldn't be people sitting Around the TV after the pubs closed (which was At around 9pm in the late 60's) this was really well done and I am still enjoying it as much as the original film. She was really pretty..she married Val Kilmer but didn't do as much as I would have thought after this.
Massive fan if the original film, love June Ritchie in it. As for the series this us the first time I've seen it since it was first aired, brings back memories of me and my mum settling down on the settee to watch it.
I read Stan Barstow's original trilogy back in the 80s, and really enjoyed them. Out of all the kitchen sink novels of the 60s, this was always my favourite. I liked the film version of A Kind Of Loving, and the two leads were great, and this series was excellent, Clive Wood and Joanne Whalley really fleshed out the roles of Vic and Ingrid. And the supporting cast really excelled.
We read A Kind of Loving in school and fell in love with it, then came the film and fell in love with that also (as well the beautiful June Richie) I’m posting this while watching the first couple of minutes hoping I fall in love with this also.
Please could you upload all the Granada TV Series A Kind of Loving..Episodes, hate it when you can only see so many and never how it ends.....thanks for uploading this wonderful series....BCF.
I read the Vic Brown trilogy in my mid teens and was hooked. I've still got the three books. For me, this eighties series captured the mood of the books far better than the Alan Bates film version.
I loved this back in 1982, and the original film. I love a kitchen sink drama but all those cat calls as Ingrid walks through the office sure brings back memories of how things were in the ‘olden’ days. So glad that kind of behaviour is no longer seen as acceptable. Really looking forward to watching this again after forty years!
I remember my mate's dad watching this way back for hot peeks of 'Ingrid' His wife was also called the same but not a marriage made good. Poor guy is dead now.
Simpler times. Hardly any cars in the streets. A proper Welfare state. Free Further and Higher education. And no ridiculous modern wedding costing more than a house at this time. Society is now "I'm alright Jack".
Loved reading this book at school in the very early 1970s ❤.... I feel they ruined it with the actors they picked for the main rolls of Victor and Ingrid.......Victor was described as very dark hair and a very handsome face....Ingrid was a blonde haired, very beautiful young woman with a beautiful figure completely different to the actors they picked.... they don't show his excitement at watching her on the bus , before they ever spoke to each other...how he describes the back of her neck and her blonde hair done in a French pleat.
@@nevisscot7697What kind of working class have you ever been in contact with? As the sixth child of a Northern steel worker, there was always money for alcohol. A day never went by without a few pints in the local. Always food on the table and the kids taken care of, but always a pint on his way home from work. And always respectable, as are every one of his 6 kids and 17 grandkids. Not a Tory, a criminal, an idler or long term unemployed amongst us. Don't write the working class off just yet. And we didn't all vote bloody Brexit either.
@@clareshaughnessy2745 not at these levels .im working class 1959 .my mother certainly didnt my father did .no drugs back then ..now if your not legless then what the hell .it all has a cost ....
@@nevisscot7697 I was 1963. One of eight, and my dad, a docker, died when I was four. My mum never drank so we didn’t have the life of, say, my cousins. Their mum (my dad’s sister) was an alcoholic, their dad was a lorry driver but had a perennially bad back and when he couldn’t work, his day was organised around the pub opening times. In by eleven, home for a sleep, then back to the pub for the evening. So many people we knew had a similar timetable. I went to convent school and was amazed to find that, far from the paragons of propriety I imagined, many catholic priests were incredibly heavy drinkers! In my experience, drinking culture has always been a huge part of British life, even if I’ve never been a big drinker
I just found A Kind of Loving and I so want to see all of the episodes. Will you put all of the rest on UA-cam. I just love the characters so far!!! More Please!
The 1962 film with Alan Bates was a brilliant film in a very ordinary way. The British kitchen sink dramas of the 1960s were excellent.
I agree. I am a fan of all kitchen sink dramas. I can watch them over and over.
Look Back In Anger was also a good kitchen sink drama.
I'd just had my son back in 82 when this was on the telly. I thoroughly enjoyed it and looked forward to each episode. The BBC captured the era so well with great attention to detail
I bought the book when i was in the army, stationed in Germany in 1966, I was 19 years old and I sat in a cafe in the camp one Sunday and read the book all the way through in one day. I have never forgotten the impact the book had on me because all the characters could have been in my own family. I have been a fan of Stan Barstow ever since.
I'm from Glasgow originally and now live in Florida but I went to college in Manchester and worked in Blackburn in the 60's. I still get a wave of nostalgia
and yearning when I hear the Lancashire accent. So many people were so good to me as a clueless teenager away from home. Great memories.
Lovely to hear, we have friends and relatives in Blackburn, have a look at Hetty Wainthrop, all filmed in the area
Lancashire is very different from the rest of England, culturally another country. There doesn’t seem to be a class system and people are accepted at face value. There was certainly a hierarchy particularly in a working environment but it was more to do with merit than connections.
WTH are you doing in FLA? Love you Scots, esp in Scotland. :-)))
@@paulwild3676 load of b
@@paulwild3676 no doubt in the past, but a different place now. Certainly a lot of poverty and culture clashes these days. This series depicts a lovely time when there was work in the towns of Lancashire and indeed the North of England.
It’s funny how the bride’s parents look like our grandparents today! 😅 it was a great series, I watched it as a teenager, a brilliant drama.
I read this when i was at school. Read it several times since. Love Stan Barstow
Classic drama from Granada's golden era . A reminder of the things that ITV use to be good at.
1982 seems like a blink away in time where did it go...... My cousin was the spit image of Joanne Whalley 🙏
A beautiful visual rendition of working class, kitchen sink, social realism.
Excellent series . Its always surprising the number of very watchable TV programmes that were made in the past. Well done for uploading BFC
Well, you either didn't grow up in the 1970s/80s, or didn't watch much tv back then. If you grew up in rrecent years, you sadly missed a lot of great tv drama from back in the day, before political correctness and wokeness!
The best programmes were made in the past. We’ve come down to the Housewives, Kardashians, Marriage at First Sight and other cultural icons.
Why did I never see this? I loved the book and the film, don't know what I was doing when this was on.
I remember going in a Booth to listen to a record before you bought it, ha ha how far we've come
Not for the better! X
Watched this back in the 80s, Excellent series and very faithful to the books. Great upload, many thanks.
I remember when this aired, I had such a crush on Vic!
that's weird, I had one on Ingrid...
One of Joanne Whalley's earliest starring roles.
she"s gorgeous
Great series, remember watching it with my dad all those years ago after mum passed away. Almost as good as the film with Alan Bates and Thora Hird. Brings back a lot of memories.
I remember watching this when it first was aired and I never noticed this at the time but I am a kid of around this time, Well this is supposedly the late 50's and I was born In 58. Working class families didn't have TV that early and TV shut down really early I the evening, anyway so there wouldn't be people sitting Around the TV after the pubs closed (which was At around 9pm in the late 60's) this was really well done and I am still enjoying it as much as the original film.
She was really pretty..she married Val Kilmer but didn't do as much as I would have thought after this.
Massive fan if the original film, love June Ritchie in it. As for the series this us the first time I've seen it since it was first aired, brings back memories of me and my mum settling down on the settee to watch it.
I went to school with June Ritchie.
Much prefer the original film. Not overly impressed with the acting in this production. Very 'church institute' :)
Oh gosh, what a simply heavenly theme tune.
Never heard of this show until it showed up in my feed. Now I'll be binge watching this bye gone age.
Thank you very much for making this excellent drama available. I saw it first time round and always remembered it fondly.
Read the book at school then saw this first time around. I then met Clive Wood in The Dirty Duck pub a few years ago. Superb actor.
wow! this one brings back memories
first time seeing this drama in 2016
good stuff
thanks for sharing
Absolutely love this show got it on DVD and the movie on Blu-ray
Lovely, I remember watching this back in the day. Thanks for uploading.
I read Stan Barstow's original trilogy back in the 80s, and really enjoyed them. Out of all the kitchen sink novels of the 60s, this was always my favourite. I liked the film version of A Kind Of Loving, and the two leads were great, and this series was excellent, Clive Wood and Joanne Whalley really fleshed out the roles of Vic and Ingrid. And the supporting cast really excelled.
brilliant .those where the days .good days .nothing like to day
blame its a teddy boy
Beautiful theme tune.
We read A Kind of Loving in school and fell in love with it, then came the film and fell in love with that also (as well the beautiful June Richie) I’m posting this while watching the first couple of minutes hoping I fall in love with this also.
Yes, it's very likeable.
Please could you upload all the Granada TV Series A Kind of Loving..Episodes, hate it when you can only see so many and never how it ends.....thanks for uploading this wonderful series....BCF.
Love the theme tune.
love this series. the film was fantastic with alan bates. wish they would repeat them.
First time I've seen a 'gooseberry' wearing ear muffs.
Parents always looked old in those days.My parents were never young !!
I read the trilogy, loved it!
Loved watching this back in the day thanks
I read the Vic Brown trilogy in my mid teens and was hooked. I've still got the three books.
For me, this eighties series captured the mood of the books far better than the Alan Bates film version.
I reneber eatching this when it was first briadcast. Classy production.
I agree with user Womble below. I only wish that I could
see all the episodes. Come on UA-cam, put them up..?
I loved this back in 1982, and the original film. I love a kitchen sink drama but all those cat calls as Ingrid walks through the office sure brings back memories of how things were in the ‘olden’ days. So glad that kind of behaviour is no longer seen as acceptable. Really looking forward to watching this again after forty years!
I used to quite enjoy the appreciation back in the day. - the women who hated it were the ones who didn’t get it 😊
I remember my mate's dad watching this way back for hot peeks of 'Ingrid' His wife was also called the same but not a marriage made good. Poor guy is dead now.
Thanks for the upload its one of my favourite films this one. A bouquet of barbed wire next i think.
Richard Upton set in the early sixties
I started watching that last night, very controversial for the 70s, but I doubt people would bat an eyelid today.
Oh yeah, brilliant,
Simpler times. Hardly any cars in the streets. A proper Welfare state. Free Further and Higher education. And no ridiculous modern wedding costing more than a house at this time. Society is now "I'm alright Jack".
don't think it was as perfect as your making it out. But I was not alive then so i will take your word for it
Thank you so much for uploading this. I can't wait to revisit a fondly remembered drama
Loved reading this book at school in the very early 1970s ❤.... I feel they ruined it with the actors they picked for the main rolls of Victor and Ingrid.......Victor was described as very dark hair and a very handsome face....Ingrid was a blonde haired, very beautiful young woman with a beautiful figure completely different to the actors they picked.... they don't show his excitement at watching her on the bus , before they ever spoke to each other...how he describes the back of her neck and her blonde hair done in a French pleat.
I have the series on DVD. Stan adapted his three novels, A Kind of Loving, The Watchers on the Shore and The Right True End.
Brilliant,T.V.Serious👏👏👏
The respectable working class. Whatever happened to them?
The day days when people didnt have money to spend on alcohol and drugs .
@@nevisscot7697What kind of working class have you ever been in contact with? As the sixth child of a Northern steel worker, there was always money for alcohol. A day never went by without a few pints in the local. Always food on the table and the kids taken care of, but always a pint on his way home from work. And always respectable, as are every one of his 6 kids and 17 grandkids. Not a Tory, a criminal, an idler or long term unemployed amongst us. Don't write the working class off just yet. And we didn't all vote bloody Brexit either.
@@nevisscot7697what???? What world do you live in? You think the working class didn’t drink??
@@clareshaughnessy2745 not at these levels .im working class 1959 .my mother certainly didnt my father did .no drugs back then ..now if your not legless then what the hell .it all has a cost ....
@@nevisscot7697 I was 1963. One of eight, and my dad, a docker, died when I was four. My mum never drank so we didn’t have the life of, say, my cousins. Their mum (my dad’s sister) was an alcoholic, their dad was a lorry driver but had a perennially bad back and when he couldn’t work, his day was organised around the pub opening times. In by eleven, home for a sleep, then back to the pub for the evening. So many people we knew had a similar timetable.
I went to convent school and was amazed to find that, far from the paragons of propriety I imagined, many catholic priests were incredibly heavy drinkers!
In my experience, drinking culture has always been a huge part of British life, even if I’ve never been a big drinker
It's like the Hovis add.
I just found A Kind of Loving and I so want to see all of the episodes. Will you put all of the rest on UA-cam. I just love the characters so far!!! More Please!
Clive Wood makes a good fist of Alan Bates’ part. He went on to London’s Burning of course and other roles.
Plus was a member of the Royal Shakespeare company
I’m a southern softie and boy, wasn’t it grim up north? Watched this the first time round and before that the original film. Good stuff.
No it wasn't grim!!
Thanks for this, great memories from the 80s.
What 11 gits didn't like this?
I dread to think what they like!!!!?😆
23:00 - Givenchy, Gentleman is my whiff... 😳🤪
WILL YOU PLEASE UPLOAD ALL OF THE EPISODES? PLEASE!!!!
loved this show....life wassoo simole then.
Thanks for posting this .. is it really 33 years..
41 now 😐
Do you have the complete series to share or just the three episodes you've posted?
Before you start...no episode 4
Them types can never leave their mothers... a continuing story, don't bother trying lads.
Many thanks for the upload. Do you have the rest of the series? Best wishes, Villiago.
***** Thanks BFC. Best wishes, Villiago.
That kiss was something 🥴🤐
Simple nice show
I wonder where those twins are today?
Read the books and watched this series when I was a teenager. Found this on here but not every episode. Will you be uploading the others at any point?
Why didn't you add the rest of the series, can't find it here in America
💜👏
The Brown lads are the oldest looking teeners I've seen. Picked up the book to read..Again last week.
❤😂🎉🎉❤😂🎉❤😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Oh look, Des Foster, who hit Bet in Cooronation street.
Yes. Many people in this were also in other things.
Oooh I remember this I were 14 w3n she got her jugs out n she were gorgeous I were so embarrassed sat we Mr mum n dad
Haha after episode 2 payment required to download🤮