S1 E1 • Seven Up!

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. Director Michael Apted plans to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to determine how their lives and attitudes have changed.

Première diffusion : 5 mai 1964

S1 E2 • 7 Plus Seven

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Première diffusion : 15 décembre 1970

S1 E3 • 21 Up

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Première diffusion : 9 mai 1977

S1 E4 • 28 Up, Part 1

By the fourth installment of the series a few of our subjects have dropped out (John and Charles do not take part) and Paul’s move to Australia (before Seven Plus Seven) seems to have benefited this insecure man. Divorce is barely mentioned and children are starting to arrive.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1984

S1 E5 • 28 Up, Part 2

Première diffusion : 5 février 1984

S1 E6 • 35 Up

Neil is not getting any better, and has really only managed to find another anti-social alcove to crawl into. Tony has pushed his East Ender dream as far as he can. Our trio of chain store girls has grown more distant and distinct, with only Lynn finding a way to maintain her fragile 15-plus year marriage.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1991

S1 E7 • 42 Up, Part 1

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1998

S1 E8 • 42 Up, Part 2

Première diffusion : 5 février 1998

S1 E9 • 49 Up, Part 1

At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from previous interviews. Some marriages seem stronger; some have ended. Being a parent or a grandparent dominates life's pleasures. Simon has found responsibility; John's charity work flourishes. Neil remains in politics, against all odds. Jackie leads the critique of a more deliberately-present Apted and the series' intrusiveness. None enjoy participating; all are reflective; several surpass expectations.

Première diffusion : 15 septembre 2005

S1 E10 • 49 Up, Part 2

At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from previous interviews. Some marriages seem stronger; some have ended. Being a parent or a grandparent dominates life's pleasures. Simon has found responsibility; John's charity work flourishes. Neil remains in politics, against all odds. Jackie leads the critique of a more deliberately-present Apted and the series' intrusiveness. None enjoy participating; all are reflective; several surpass expectations.

Première diffusion : 22 septembre 2005

S1 E11 • 56 Up, Part 1

Michael Apted’s groundbreaking documentary, which has interviewed a group of Britons every seven years since they were seven years old, is now half a century in the making. The show, called Seven Up!, was never designed as a long-running venture, but it proved so popular that the programme makers returned to the subjects when they were 14, again when they were 21, and so on. And now they’re 56. The show was based on the motto, ‘Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man’ – and it's a truly ground-breaking piece of television. It’s still impossible to watch the very first series, which is full of little boys with dreams of being astronauts and jockeys, without welling up. Discovering what's happened to them, and that the life paths have included homelessness, heartache and disappointment, is just as affecting. The 14 children who took part in the first programme were chosen in a very deliberate attempt to represent different social classes in the 1960s, with plummy-voiced public school boys (one of whom declared that he liked to read the Financial Times), being pitched against street-wise Cockney kids. Sue Davis was one of three friends at an East London primary school chosen, presumably, to represent the more gritty side of British life. She is pragmatic over the mixed hand life has dealt her so far. Although her first marriage didn’t work out, and she had to struggle for years as a single mother, she now has a job as an administrator at Queen Mary, University of London. She’s moved out of the East End to leafy Essex and owns her own home. Tony Walker – who wanted to be a jockey – ended up driving cabs but moonlighting as a TV extra. The series producer, Michael Apted, once revealed that he thought Tony would end up in jail. In 35 Up Tony admitted his struggles with a monogamous relationship and by 42 Up he had famously confessed to cheating on his wife, Debbie, who chose to stand by him. 49 Up showed them as grandparents and proud owners of a house in Spain. What started out as a programme about class has morphed into TV’s longest-running soap.

Première diffusion : 14 mai 2012

S1 E12 • 56 Up, Part 2

Michael Apted’s groundbreaking documentary, which has interviewed a group of Britons every seven years since they were seven years old, is now half a century in the making. The show, called Seven Up!, was never designed as a long-running venture, but it proved so popular that the programme makers returned to the subjects when they were 14, again when they were 21, and so on. And now they’re 56. The show was based on the motto, ‘Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man’ – and it's a truly ground-breaking piece of television. It’s still impossible to watch the very first series, which is full of little boys with dreams of being astronauts and jockeys, without welling up. Discovering what's happened to them, and that the life paths have included homelessness, heartache and disappointment, is just as affecting. The 14 children who took part in the first programme were chosen in a very deliberate attempt to represent different social classes in the 1960s, with plummy-voiced public school boys (one of whom declared that he liked to read the Financial Times), being pitched against street-wise Cockney kids. Sue Davis was one of three friends at an East London primary school chosen, presumably, to represent the more gritty side of British life. She is pragmatic over the mixed hand life has dealt her so far. Although her first marriage didn’t work out, and she had to struggle for years as a single mother, she now has a job as an administrator at Queen Mary, University of London. She’s moved out of the East End to leafy Essex and owns her own home. Tony Walker – who wanted to be a jockey – ended up driving cabs but moonlighting as a TV extra. The series producer, Michael Apted, once revealed that he thought Tony would end up in jail. In 35 Up Tony admitted his struggles with a monogamous relationship and by 42 Up he had famously confessed to cheating on his wife, Debbie, who chose to stand by him. 49 Up showed them as grandparents and proud owners of a house in Spain. What started out as a programme about class has morphed into TV’s longest-running soap.

Première diffusion : 21 mai 2012

S1 E13 • 56 Up, Part 3

Michael Apted’s groundbreaking documentary, which has interviewed a group of Britons every seven years since they were seven years old, is now half a century in the making. The show, called Seven Up!, was never designed as a long-running venture, but it proved so popular that the programme makers returned to the subjects when they were 14, again when they were 21, and so on. And now they’re 56. The show was based on the motto, ‘Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man’ – and it's a truly ground-breaking piece of television. It’s still impossible to watch the very first series, which is full of little boys with dreams of being astronauts and jockeys, without welling up. Discovering what's happened to them, and that the life paths have included homelessness, heartache and disappointment, is just as affecting. The 14 children who took part in the first programme were chosen in a very deliberate attempt to represent different social classes in the 1960s, with plummy-voiced public school boys (one of whom declared that he liked to read the Financial Times), being pitched against street-wise Cockney kids. Sue Davis was one of three friends at an East London primary school chosen, presumably, to represent the more gritty side of British life. She is pragmatic over the mixed hand life has dealt her so far. Although her first marriage didn’t work out, and she had to struggle for years as a single mother, she now has a job as an administrator at Queen Mary, University of London. She’s moved out of the East End to leafy Essex and owns her own home. Tony Walker – who wanted to be a jockey – ended up driving cabs but moonlighting as a TV extra. The series producer, Michael Apted, once revealed that he thought Tony would end up in jail. In 35 Up Tony admitted his struggles with a monogamous relationship and by 42 Up he had famously confessed to cheating on his wife, Debbie, who chose to stand by him. 49 Up showed them as grandparents and proud owners of a house in Spain. What started out as a programme about class has morphed into TV’s longest-running soap.

Première diffusion : 28 mai 2012

S1 E1 • 63 Up, Part 1

Documentary update following a group of Britons whose lives have been chronicled from the age of seven. Director Michael Apted, who has helmed the series since 1964, finds out what has happened since the likes of Tony, Andrew, Sue, Nick, Jackie and Bruce since they last spoke to the cameras in 2012.

Première diffusion : 4 juin 2019

S1 E2 • 63 Up, Part 2

Catching up with people whose lives have been chronicled since the age of seven, including Lynn, who had previously battled a life-threatening brain condition. The programme also revisits Bruce, who reflects on his life and work as a teacher, and Jackie, who was last seen fighting cuts to her disability benefits as well as overcoming a series of family tragedies.

Première diffusion : 5 juin 2019

S1 E15 • 7Up&me

Première diffusion : 6 juin 2019

S1 E3 • 63 Up, Part 3

Director Michael Apted catches up with more of the people he first met as seven-year-old children back in 1964. Paul and Symon - who back then were filmed growing up in the same children's home - have an emotional reunion in Australia, where Paul emigrated as a teenager. The film also catches up with Neil, whose rollercoaster life has taken him from homelessness to politics.

Première diffusion : 6 juin 2019