Watchable in a Coronation Street kind of way.

Charming drama covering twenty years of changes within a middleclass British family inbetween World Wars. Never really does anything special, and the dialogue can get a tad too expository at times, but I enjoyed it quite a lot and Robert Newton was great.

An experience not unlike Larkin's An Arundel Tomb. I last watched it while doing the ironing. I was dancing and crying and ironing all at the same time.

It's intelligently written, very well acted and nicely shot, but ultimately a rather boring melodrama. It has a few ups and downs, several scenes shine, other times it slumps into sermons exalting the lofty values of the salt-of-the-earth middle class, but most of the time it's just flat.

Classic.