Tell us your highlights from the documentary series 7 Up <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n And so the great experiment begun by Granada Television in 1964 is over. That year, Seven Up! introduced the viewing public to 14 primary school children \u2013 10 boys and four girls from a range of backgrounds \u2013 who would become part of an ongoing documentary project that returned to film them at regular intervals and interrogate the truth of the Jesuitical motto \u201cGive me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man\u201d.<\/p>\n Seven Up!, part of ITV\u2019s flagship World in Action series, was directed by Paul Almond<\/a> but thereafter the enterprise became synonymous with Michael Apted, who originally helped find the children and took over the making of the programmes. He died in 2021<\/a>, two years after completing 63 Up. It had been thought the series would end there but when one of the participants, Nick Hitchon<\/a> \u2013 a Yorkshire farmer\u2019s son who grew up to be a nuclear scientist \u2013 called one of the team to say that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and wanted to give one last interview, a final episode was commissioned.<\/p>\n
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