Eight Hours Don't Make a Day - Season 1 (1972)

We are introduced to a middle class family, where one son, Jochen, works in a tool factory and shares close comradeship with his colleagues.When he accidentally meets a young lady, Marion,who has an office advertising job, while going out to get alcohol for a family gathering, a love affair between them develops.

Jochen's grandmother spends time searching for an apartment they can afford with her new boyfriend Gregor, an elderly gentleman she has picked up in a park.When they run across a library space being abandoned by the town authorities, Oma comes up with the idea of taking it over as a kindergarten for the neighborhood kids who have no place to play except the street, and they become do it yourself squatters.

The closely knit comrades at Jochen's tool factory have hoped that one of their own, Franz, would be promoted, after some training, to replace the recently deceased foreman.But their office manager prefers to bring in an outsider, which causes tensions in the workplace.