TV series · 1974
Shoulder to Shoulder
“How women fought for the vote”
First aired 3 April 1974 Drama TMDB ↗
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
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Michael Gough
as Dr Richard Pankhurst
Maureen Pryor
as Dr Ethel Smyth
Fulton Mackay
as Keir Hardie
Robert Hardy
as Asquith
Sheila Allen
as Mrs Pethick-Lawrence
Ronald Hines
as Mr Pethick-Lawrence
Georgia Brown
as Annie Kenney
Sally Miles
as Flora Drummond
Patricia Quinn
as Christabel Pankhurst
Angela Down
as Sylvia Pankhurst
Lans Traverse
as Zellie Emerson