TV series

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

1972–1973 · 1 season

A warm, meandering portrait of ordinary lives that finds quiet drama in work, family, and solidarity.

Tagline: A Family Series
Overview: The sprawling story of the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his colleagues, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
How it feels: Warm, earnest, satirical and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, work, class, love
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
work
class
love
friendship
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild