Shoulder to Shoulder
1974 Drama 1 season
TMDB rating 6.5/10 Ended
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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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.
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Cast and details
Siân PhillipsEmmeline Pankhurst
Patricia QuinnChristabel Pankhurst
Georgia BrownAnnie Kenney
Angela DownSylvia Pankhurst- Sally MilesFlora Drummond
Sheila AllenMrs Pethick-Lawrence- Maureen PryorDr Ethel Smyth
Fulton MackayKeir Hardie
Ronald HinesMr Pethick-Lawrence
Robert HardyAsquith
Michael GoughDr Richard Pankhurst- Lans TraverseZellie Emerson
- Created by
- Midge Mackenzie, Verity Lambert, Georgia Brown
- Network
- BBC Two
- First aired
- Apr 3, 1974
- Latest episode
- May 8, 1974
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