Home Fires

About Home Fires

The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

Home Fires is a comedy series that ran on ITV1. Its themes are period drama and world war ii.

It ran for 2 seasons and 12 episodes between May 2015 and May 2016. Seasons run to about 6 episodes.

Samantha Bond stars as Frances Barden, Ruth Gemmell as Sarah Collingborne, Claire Rushbrook as Pat Simms, and Fenella Woolgar as Alison Scotlock. It comes from GBH and ITV Studios.

It streams on PBS, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, and Thirteen in the United States. The Bletchley Circle, Brideshead Revisited, and Colditz make useful companions to Home Fires. It carries a TV-PG rating.