How Green Was My Valley (1975)

The 1975 BBC serial, not John Ford's 1941 film. The Morgans are a coal-mining family in Victorian South Wales, and the story follows the youngest son, Huw, whose schooling might take him away from the pits where his father and brothers work. That pull between the mine and a way out is the whole drama. Siân Phillips won a BAFTA for her fierce, protective Beth Morgan, and it was one of Stanley Baker's last performances. Six parts, adapted by Elaine Morgan, with the pace of 1970s television. Give it an episode to settle and the family, the valley and the colliery become one world.