Total Seasons :2Total Episodes : 12
The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama charting the turbulent times experienced by one English village throughout the 20th ce...


Bert is the second oldest man in Britain, and a film is being made about his life and his village. He takes us back to the summer of 1914, when he was 12 years old.
Air Date : 2013-03-31

It is January 1915; the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times, and John is drinking heavily. A strange incident then takes place at the manor house.
Air Date : 2013-04-07

Conscription is introduced for the first time in British history. Call up papers are delivered throughout the village, and soldiers requisition Big Molly.
Air Date : 2013-04-14

Bert decides that winning the Rondo, an annual wheel barrow race on the cricket field, is a matter of life or death: if he wins, then Joe will be kept safe.
Air Date : 2013-04-21

Joe's brief leave is over. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock but Grace knows that something is wrong. Bert's actions have disastrous consequences for the family.
Air Date : 2013-04-28

The war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The debate over how best to honour their dead divides the community.
Air Date : 2013-05-05

(Old Bert Middleton)

(Grace Middleton)

(John Middleton)

(Martha Lane)

(Caro Allingham)

(Edmund Allingham)

(George Allingham)

(Clem Allingham)

(Margaret Boden)

(Arnold Hankin)

(Young Bert Middleton)
(Peter the Landlord)

(Agnes Hankin)

(Rutter)

(Norma Hankin)

(Bairstow)

(Robin Lane)
(Polly)

(Gerald Eyre)

(Joe Middleton)

(Crispin Ingham)
(Alf Rutter)
(Gilbert)
(Tommy)

(Wylie)

(Mrs H)
(Lord Allingham)
(Dr Ramsey)

(PC Len Burgess)

(Peggy)
(Recruitment Officer)
(Paul)

(Martin Parfitt)

(Chairman of Tribunal)

(Chalcraft)

(Bert Middleton)
(Alf Rutter)
(Mary Middleton)


