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Season 1 – 70 Up

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Across seven decades, viewers have witnessed fourteen children transform from primary school pupils into adolescence, adulthood and now old age; the team return to meet the people they first saw as 7-year-olds as they reflect on life at 70.

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Paul Kalina The Age (Australia) Oct 6, 2026
4/5
What we take away isn’t the fairness of the cards they were dealt but how they faced the unpredictable twists and turns that life put in their paths. It’s impossible not to be moved by this remarkable endeavour. Go to Full Review Jasper Rees Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 23, 2026
5/5
The last sitting for a whole-of-life portrait of the luckiest generation, 70 Up proved an overwhelming, elegiac farewell. Go to Full Review James Walton The Spectator Sep 24, 2026
This remains one of the best things television has ever done -- and rich proof of the truth of Anne Tyler’s observation that ‘the real adventure is the flow of time; it’s as much adventure as anyone could wish’. Go to Full Review Barbara Ellen Observer (UK) Sep 24, 2026
Inarguably British television’s most ambitious and enduring social experiment. Go to Full Review Ed Power Irish Times Sep 23, 2026
[Aging is] a journey we’re all on, and the morbidly comforting message of 70 Up is that nobody has things figured out and that all we really can do is muddle through as best we can. Go to Full Review Pat Stacey Irish Independent Sep 23, 2026
4/5
Whatever the series’ shortcomings...it’s an extraordinary achievement and a monument to a time when even a commercial broadcaster like ITV was prepared to take risks and trust its audience. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Rodney O @Rodka Oct 15, 2026 Overwhelming, insightful, unique, well made, brilliant. See more Read all reviews
70 Up — Season 1

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Cast & Crew

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Asif Kapadia

Director

Claire Lewis

Producer

Mike Blair

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 15, 2026 Across 7 decades, viewers witnessed 14 children transform from childhood to old age; now in their 70s, the team ask what has been revealed about British society. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 15, 2026 Sue, Bruce, Jackie, Suzy, Peter, KC, John and Andrew come together for one last reckoning with their extraordinary lives - and with the series that has followed them since childhood. Details
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70 Up — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Asif Kapadia
Executive Producer
Mike Blair
Genre
Documentary, Reality
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Sep 15, 2026
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