Modern Times: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Modern Times Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Years Apart
Aug 12, 1996
Three couples decided to fly in the face of social convention by choosing to be together despite age gaps greater than 25 years. What particular strains do such differences place u
The Museum
Oct 23, 1996
A tempestuous year in the life of London's Victoria & Albert Museum.
Broken Homes
Oct 30, 1996
Documentary film-maker Lynn Alleway explores the problems fathers have in keeping touch with their children after separation or divorce. Tonight, three separated families reveal th
The Selling Game
Nov 6, 1996
The secrets of the antiques trade are revealed in this programme about three traders who sell antiques to the very rich. David Dickinson knows what his clients like, and has to buy
Dog Trouble
Nov 13, 1996
They can set neighbour against neighbour, damage houses and gardens and make others' lives a misery with their noise and mess. This film portrays dogs as agents of social mayhem.
A Pleasant Land
Nov 20, 1996
The story of 61-year-old beef farmer Robin White , who wants to quit after BSE left him with cattle that nobody can eat and no one will buy.
To the Manor Bought
Nov 27, 1996
Robert Smith sells grand feudal titles to wealthy commoners, such as Melody Urquhart, now known as the Baroness of Leyny. This film follows the newly titled through a summer of auc
Going for Broke
Dec 4, 1996
The story of Keith Sinclair, whose horse-trailer business flourished in the eighties but went under with the new decade. He blames the bank for his downfall and his subsequent inab
The Power and the Glory
Dec 11, 1996
A behind-the-scenes look of the annual power boat race at Cowes.
The Flickering Flame
Dec 18, 1996
In his first full-length documentary for BBC TV, director Ken Loach returns to the Liverpool docks, the subject 27 years ago of his drama The Big Flame. Today the docks are the sce