Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
About Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
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.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a comedy series made for WDR Fernsehen. Gottfried John leads the cast as Jochen Epp, Wolfried Lier as Wolf Epp, Irm Hermann as Irmgard Erlkönig, and Anita Bucher as Käthe Epp.
Its one season of 5 episodes aired between October 1972 and March 1973.
Members will find love at first sight, working class, comradeship, and factory worker in it. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel.
Adolescence, Years and Years, and Dharma & Greg make useful companions to Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, all filed under family relationships and miniseries.