Home Fires Season 1

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

This 4 ½ hour series (six 47-minute episodes) was produced in 2015 by the British commercial network ITV – the reason it is less than an hour. It aired on PBS in the US in a somewhat edited edition. ( I didn’t see the TV version but there are some expletives.). And the package says “Full UK-Length Edition”It begins in a small English village in 1939 just as Hitler is coming to power and war is evident. The town has an air force base but most of the young men were leaving for France to help the war effort. In the first 30 minutes we are introduced to the main characters – and there are quite a few – and we lean that the town is so small that it has one mailman (on a bike), one butcher store, one church and eventually one fallout shelter will hold all the town’s residents. Like every small town (and every melodrama) there are people with secrets and some folks make foolish decisions that will impact both their life and the lives of others.- Steve Ramm

Captivating, spellbinding, and impossible to stop between episodes.
The story of a small rural English village as WW2 unfolds. Foyle’s War set the bar with sets, story & costumes on WWII home front drama and the ladies of “HOME FIRES” HAVE MET THAT CHALLENGE. Well done again Masterpiece. From the Julie Summers book “Jambusters”, 2013, and Summers can be spotted as a cameo character in episode 2. Filmed in Cheshire England, the story setting as well, it is nostalgic perfection.Cast is overall great, allowing many memorable characters to unfold, too many to mention. Leaders of the Women’s Institute with their banter and one-upmanship are brilliant played by Francesca Annis (‘Restless’) as Cameron the outgoing head, and Samantha Bond (‘Downton Abbey’) as new President Barden. Dr Campbell (Ed Stoppard –‘Upstairs, Downstairs’) and wife Erica (Frances Grey –‘Vanity Fair’) portray an important couple with as much finesse as the Simms, a writer & wife battered couple (Mark Bazeley –‘The Queen’) (Claire Rushbrook –‘The Mill’ ‘Mutual Friends’).- Harold Wolf

I loved the history this presented. Every episode had me eager to watch the next episode. It detailed the emotions that came up in real life situations. Some emotions were harder to hear but that is reality. Homosexual behavior was shown and was done so in a diplomatic way. Hard to watch but not left out in order to show every aspect of how it had to be dealt with.-Paula Barton

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Francesca Annis, Claire Calbraith, Ed Stoppard, Claire Rushbrook Samantha Bond
Format: Multiple Formats, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 2
Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: PBS
DVD Release Date: October 27, 2015
Run Time: 360 minutes
ASIN: B0128P1UH6