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Strangers and Brothers

Season 1 Episode 5

At Cambridge in 1937 the Master, Vernon Joyce is seriously ill but no one has told him as such. The faculty begin debating who his replacement should be. Jago has some support and Lewis Eliot is sent to test him out and determine if he...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1

1.

Aired: Jan 11, 1984

After successfully completing his law exams, Lewis Eliot becomes a pupil in t...

Episode 2

2.

Aired: Jan 18, 1984

Back in London after a false medical scare, Lewis Eliot is ready to celebrate...

Episode 3

3.

Aired: Jan 25, 1984

It's 1935 and Lewis Eliot has been at Cambridge for a number of years. He has...

Episode 4

4.

Aired: Feb 1, 1984

For Lewis Eliot, life with Sheila is difficult and rumors have it that she ha...

Episode 5

5.

Aired: Feb 8, 1984

At Cambridge in 1937 the Master, Vernon Joyce is seriously ill but no one has...

Episode 6

6.

Aired: Feb 15, 1984

In the Spring of 1939, Lewis Eliot is working in Whitehall as headhunter recr...

Episode 7

7.

Aired: Feb 22, 1984

It's now the winter of 1941 and Lewis Eliot is among a group that establishes...

Episode 8

8.

Aired: Feb 29, 1984

It's spring 1944 and the atomic project continues but the team has been unabl...

Episode 9

9.

Aired: Mar 7, 1984

August 1945; When the USA drop the atomic on Japan, British scientists, makin...

Episode 10

10.

Aired: Mar 14, 1984

Summer 1946; Eric Sawbridge pleads guilty of spying and jailed for 14 years. ...

Episode 11

11.

Aired: Mar 21, 1984

Spring 1955; The Conservatives win the General Election and Eliot is working ...

Episode 12

12.

Aired: Mar 28, 1984

Autumn 1957; Ellen Smith visits Eliot and confesses she is having an affair w...

Episode 13

13.

Aired: Apr 4, 1984

Spring 1965; Lewis is knighted and become a successful writer. He declines La...

Info about Strangers and Brothers

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Drama