# What British TV show do I remember?

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**Created:** [July 2, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-british-tv-show-do-i-remember/790350 "2017-07-02T14:33:55Z")\
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Back in the 1970s (or perhaps it was the early 1980s) I recall occasionally seeing a show on TV, but the name of it escapes me. I _think_ it was British in origin, and it starred a bunch of children. I do recall the name of the show had a number in it… like “7 1/2” or something like that.

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-british-tv-show-do-i-remember/790350/2 "2017-07-02T14:38:00Z")

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[The Kids From 47a.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_from_47A) About a family of brothers and sisters who had lost both their parents and were pretending everything was okay.

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-british-tv-show-do-i-remember/790350/3 "2017-07-02T14:40:29Z")

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[Famous Five](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(series)#Television)?

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-british-tv-show-do-i-remember/790350/4 "2017-07-02T14:54:16Z")

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Seven Up, or Seven Plus Seven?

> **[Up (film series)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series)**
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> The Up series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled Seven Up!, with later films adjusting the number in the title to match the age of the subjects at the time of filming. The documentary has had nine episodes—one every seven years—thus spanning 56 years. The series has been produced by Granada Television for ITV, which has broadcast all of them except 42 Up (1998), which was b...

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-british-tv-show-do-i-remember/790350/5 "2017-07-02T15:12:25Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Seven Up, or Seven Plus Seven?
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> [Up (film series) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series)

Hmm, am thinking this was it. Were these shown on U.S. TV in the mid to late 1970s?