The Norman Conquests

1h 33min

The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden mother; the drink flows, and hidden enmities, intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility.

Episodes

Cast

Table Manners

1. Table Manners

1h 33min

5th Oct 1977

A dysfunctional family gathering for the weekend reunites three siblings and significant others in a small country cottage with farcical consequences.

Living Together

2. Living Together

1h 33min

12th Oct 1977

A dysfunctional family gets together at the house of their cantankerous mother and old resentments, jealousies, and rivalries are reignited.

Round and Round the Garden

3. Round and Round the Garden

1h 33min

19th Oct 1977

Annie has second thoughts about spending the weekend with brother-in-law Norman as the dysfunctional family tries to come to terms with itself.

First air date

5th Oct 1977

Last air date

19th Oct 1977

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

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