A series of five programmes about British teenagers from first sighting to latest form. 2: The Best Years of My Life The teens are often years of extremes of emotion - you're 'miserable, elated, hopeful and devastated by turns'.
Daily life at school and home can be tense and boring; parents a trial; boyfriends and girlfriends a letdown and you're not at all sure what life is all about.
The teens can also be great. Grown-ups frequently envy teenagers' supposed access to' sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll and their lack of responsibilities.
We probably all want to be young again - but would you really go back to the 'best years of your life'?
Series producers SHARON GOULDS and MARILYN WHEATCROFT