Seven Up! - Episode Guide

We catch up with East Ender Tony who dreamed of becoming a jockey, but ended up as a cab driver. We last saw Tony in Spain as he planned to become a property developer, but where is he now? We also catch up with Nick, the shy Yorkshire farm boy who went on to study at Oxford before moving to America. Nick reflects on family, health and life in Trump's America.

We catch up with Bruce, the boarding schoolboy who was filmed, aged seven, missing his daddy. Growing up he longed to be a missionary in Africa but chose a teaching career instead. As retirement looms, he reflects on his life and work. We also pick up with Jackie who, at 56, was fighting cuts to her disability benefits as well as overcoming a series of family tragedies. Finally, we meet with children's librarian Lynn, who we'd previously seen battling a life-threatening brain condition.

In the final episode, Paul and Symon - who were filmed at seven growing up in the same children's home - have an emotional reunion in Australia. And we catch up with Neil who, as a seven-year-old in Liverpool dreamt of becoming an astronaut, but tragically in 28 Up was found homeless and struggling with mental health issues. Yet he surprised viewers in 42 Up when he reappeared as a Liberal Democrat councillor in Hackney. We catch up on the most recent chapter of Neil's extraordinary life.

Seven decades. One extraordinary experiment. The groundbreaking documentary series returns to meet the people we first saw as 7-year-olds as they reflect on life at 70.

Seven decades. One extraordinary experiment. The ground-breaking documentary series returns to meet the people we first saw as 7-year-olds as they reflect on life at 70.

Recently rediscovered and remastered footage of people in their Seventies filmed and broadcast in 1965, the year after the 7 Up documentary that began the Up series. Those involved had been born into Queen Victoria's imperial Britain, when life expectancy was under 50 and workhouses took in the old and destitute. Restored and re-edited, the film hears them talking about work, money, loneliness, health and dying and their hopes in 1965.

In 1964, ITV broadcast a film about 14 seven-year-olds, which became the longest-running documentary series ever. It set out to prove that Britain was divided by the class system and that these children's futures had been decided by the street they were born on. This programme looks at the year 7 Up was made, the idea behind it, and what the subjects hoped for in a Britain about to change around them.