The Family (reality series)

The Family is a reality series from 1974, produced by Paul Watson, on the everyday life of the family, which was then a city from ReadingWilkins of 132,000 inhabitants. Directors were Paul Watson and Franc Roddam.After us 1973 An American Family this is true as the world's first reality series. 12 episodes were made In 1974, in which the ins and outs of the Wilkins family closely followed was, without distinguishing in the kinds of conversations that were conducted or the circumstances in which the family lived. The goal was registering the everyday life of the members of a typical British family, with all their quarrels, personal troubles and smoking rows. The Family followed the Wilkins for about a year and gives a picture of life in an average British town in the early 1970s, at the time of the Cabinet of Edward Heath. In the first episode Paul Watson consults with the family regarding their expectations and asks if they have objections. Margaret Wilkins explains that they want to show how life really is, as opposed to the artificial life of soap operas. Next, the banal worries of the Wilkins family detailed followed.

At that time, there were some who protested because they found The Family everyday, including Mary Whitehouse. The program wanted to be realistic and did not take into account sensitivities. The fact that Marian and Tom lived together but were not married, was anno 1974 not yet evident. Margaret also had a child by another man than her husband: this was likewise controversial. Also daughter Heather, who worked as a Hairdresser, got to do with racism because they fell on black men. [1]

In 1984, an additional episode ' ten years on ', which turned out that Margaret and Terry were separated since 1978, and that Marian and Tom were also apart.



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[hide] *Gradient 1  ==Gradient[ Edit] == Three things which happen In rough lines the series focuses:
 * 2 Persons
 * 3 Music
 * 4 References

==Persons[ Edit] == ==Music[ Edit] == <p lang="en" len="396" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The beginning and ending credits of The Family consists of a composition of Dave Brooks for flute and guitar, with a voice that sings only ' a '.
 * In 1974 Margaret and Terry live together in a small apartment above a vegetable shop in Reading. At them live their daughter Marian, their son Christopher, their son Gary, their daughter Heather, Marian's fiance Tom, Garys wife Karen and their common son Scott. They have to contend with lack of space and the kitchen and bathroom use. Gary and Karen have submitted an application for council housing : social housing by the municipality. In 1974 it went with a points system where one had to prove that one was eligible. A teacher comes visit them. Eventually they get their own apartment, in which Karen feel lonely feel.
 * Margaret put Tom under pressure to her daughter Marian to marry, which only nineteen years old. This marriage is celebrated at the end of the series, and by that time The Family has already won such a large audience that people passing through the doors the newlywed couple on street harassment, as one can see in the twelfth episode.
 * The Wilkins family goes on a trip to Spain. Karen and Gary remain at home, but Heathers friend Melvin calls. They visit a bullfight and drink a lot of alcohol.
 * Margaret is the mother of the family, in 1974 thirty-nine years old and already twenty-two years with Terry married. She works as a vegetable seller in the shop under their homes. She was seen as bossy; She told Karen that she wanted to have her not in the House forever, and urged her daughter to force into marriage to Marian to Tom. In one of the episodes shows that they, as a vegetable seller, never had a Eggplant has eaten. Margaret divorced in 1978 from Terry and changed her name to Margaret Sainsbury. She died in 2008.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="177" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]
 * Terry is the father, is also thirty-nine. He works as busconducteur. He had a submissive and weak image, but was helpful. He helped Karen with the decor of her apartment. He had in the House a large Aviary with numerous birds. Christopher was not his biological son, but he has adopted him.
 * Marian is the 19-year-old daughter of Terry and Margaret. She works as the manager of a hair salon. It has in the series already three years a relationship with Tom, who has lived with her (which in 1974 was controversial). At the end of the series she marries him.
 * Gary is the son in 1974, eighteen years of age. He was at the age of sixteen with the pregnant Karen married and lived in the beginning of the series, together with her, still with his parents in. He is a casual man who attracts little of the household chores. In the extra episode from 1984, however, he appears to have become more responsible. And Karen's son is called Scott. He works in the year 1974, like his father, as busconducteur.
 * Tom Burns is coming from Sheffield and the fiance of Marian. During the series he frequently sipping is shown. By Margaret he is pressured to with Marian to marry, but she is only nineteen, and that he finds some young, for any reason he is hesitating. They marry at the end of the series, but in 1984 they are apart.
 * Christopher is the nine-year-old son. He goes to primary school in 1974. In the course of the series he comes to know that Terry is not his biological father and this should cry. This provoked at the time any protest by indignant viewers from.
 * Heather was fifteen years old in 1974 and went reluctantly to school yet. They visited a Counsellor and wanted to nurse, which also managed her ten years later turned out to be. Her partner in the year 1974 was Melvin, a black boy: this was controversial.
 * Karen is the 18-year-old wife of Gary, who is residing with the family Wilkins. She has son with Gary Scott. In the course of the series she gets an apartment of the municipality, where they feel lonely feel because Gary is usually away from home. Heather is its not affectionate. Karen is silent and patient; in the episode, however, they become much more assertive shows from 1984.