Jack Hargreaves visits the Romany horse fair at Appleby & visits Sturminster Newton in Dorset at ramming time.
Jack attends a Boxing Day point-to-point meeting in the New Forest. Jack goes to West Sussex College of Agriculture & Horticulture to watch students being instructed in apple grafting..
Jack presents the fascinating story of a man who rescued a brood of baby kingfishers, teaching them to fish for themselves. Jack examines a collection of scale model carts.
Sheep Shearing & Sea Bream Jack visits the high downs of Dorset in May to see an international sheep shearing gang at work. Jack takes to the sea with in-shore fishermen to fish for black bream.
Jack visits a country house on the Berkshire downs and explores the secrets it contains. Jack needs to refurbish the wheels of a cart and visits some craftsman for them to display their expert skills.
Jack attends the sale of a farm which has been owned by the same family for generations. Jack avoids a tea party by going fishing in windy conditions with the tree tops stirring. It’s 1976 and Jack surveys the damage of the summer drought and the legacy of gorse and forest fires.
This film tells the story of a country market in Ringwood in Hampshire as Jack surveys the livestock and is tempted by the fresh farm produce on offer. Jack uses a minnow trap to identify the species of fish leaping from a weir. Jack is on board a lobster boat as it sets out to drop 40 baited pots into the ocean.
Jack visits the countryside around Tenterden in Kent where some ponds are located which were formed when old iron mine workings subsided. Jack is on the north coast of Kent visiting a research station. The programme takes a look at how a lobster breeds and sheds a tight shell for a new one.
Jack makes a visit to Romney Marsh in Kent to fish and attempt to photograph a flying frog. Jack explores a kitchen garden abundant with vegetables as a village prepares for the great pumpkin day competition.
The lambing season is captured during a long day on high ground near Sturminster Newton in Dorset.This film shows Jack angling during a mayfly hatch and the short life cycle of the mayfly.
This film captures the exploits of an expert mole catcher as he sets about his business in a pasture. In this film, Jack examines the once noble art of Haute Ecole which produces the modern era dressage horse as Mrs. Mac puts Sorrel through his paces.
Old country skills are on show in this film which depicts the proper use of the draw knife. A foot operated vice and other old tools made by an old craftsman are also featured. An American cowboy buys pinto horses in the New Forest in Hampshire and Jack is on hand to see them in harness with a western stagecoach.
A film showing how an elderly craftsman made bee-skips from brambles. The country pastime of pheasant shooting is the central theme of this film.
A look at a working tidal mill in Eling, near Southampton, in Hampshire. Fishing in freezing conditions is captured by Jack’s cameras in this film.
Jack’s love of fly casting is clearly evident in this film. This film explores how a tractor powered attachment was used to split logs.
Jack fights through the undergrowth to fish from a hidden stream, with a water rat for company. A film from a bygone era as a shoot is conducted to cull deer.
Jack visits a training range to meet The Shooting Master and experience his remarkable skills.
British finches are shown in abundance in this film which looks at the breeding of birds and the bird men who specialise in them. Jack hires a veterinary team to deal with his noisy donkey, Yerro. After a tricky operation, expertly carried out, Yerro is back on his feet and Jack is happy with his donkey.
In this episode of Out Of Town Jack profiles the Dorset river in all seasons, and during a serious flood.
Jack is in southern Spain to look at the training and work of horses from the region. More adventures in southern Spain with Jack Hargreaves.
Jack takes a look at the materials and methods used in house building in previous generations. Jack is in his element with rod in hand fishing from the riverbank.
Jack Hargreaves takes a look at how frozen carbon dioxide gas (dry ice) was introduced to brand horses. Jack goes to see the primitive, yet potent, process of cider making using a back garden press.
Jack explores the pros and cons of using multi layered trammel nets. Jack is in Kent where coach building – and the skill of wooden carriage wheel manufacturing – is investigated.
Jack visits members of an angling club in the Shetlands in search of skate. Jack is in the New Forest for the pannage season when pigs are turned out for fattening before slaughter and salting for the winter.
The cold seas of winter have brought cod to the seas off the south coast of England. Jack investigates by joining the crew of the Bulldog from Ramsgate. Jack joins a 100 year old man who achieves a dream when he embarks on a successful fly fishing expedition.
Jack takes a close look at charcoal making the traditional way. Jack sets off on a pigeon shoot only to discover one of the largest flocks of wood pigeons he has ever seen.
Jack is on hand to witness this test of endurance for horse and rider.
Yerro's Vocal Cord Operation. 1975. One of the earliest surviving episodes of 'Out of Town'. Jack's mule has an operation, carried out with expertise by a Chindit war veterinary surgeon.
A trip to the city to visit Southall market in west London, then Jack Hargreaves and his dog Bess go wildfowling on a lake at an abandoned coal mine in Kent. One of two remaining complete episodes from 1975 shown on TPTV, 2024
Items used by country people making their living which have been given or lent by viewers are laid out on Jack's bench
One of the few surviving original episodes in its original format. This specially preserved episode shows a traditional bee skep being made. Then, planning to fish in a stream on Salisbury Plain, Jack finds it in flood.
Original episode as tx. Dog trainers John and Mary show Jack some working cattle dogs. He then visits an exhibition at the Dorchester County Museum where he is surprised to find his own clock.
Jack joins David Boag as he trains rescued kingfishers to catch minnows. He then witnesses how corn was threshed before the days of the combine harvester.
Fred Dinenage remembers Out Of Town before reuniting the classic How! lineup. Rev Roger Royle also stars
Fred Dinenage and guest Jack Hargreaves look back at the work of filmographer Ollie Kite
A documentary about children learning to fish, with Jack Hargreaves. Selected to represent Britain at the 1966 Festival of Documentary Films in Venice
A rarity from Ollie Kite. who worked alongside Jack Hargreaves in the mid-1960s and who made similar programmes. This 1966 programme won Southern TV a Diploma of merit in the National Festival of Nature Films for "the most original treatment"