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Following the death of Nick Hitchon - who started life as the son of a farmer before rising to become a respected scientist - MailOnline examines what happened to the 13 other participant.
<strong>Other lives:</strong> Nuclear scientist whose life was chronicled in the TV series that started in 1964 with Seven Up!
Nick Hitchon originally appeared in Seven Up! - the first iteration of the programme - in 1964. The series charted the lives of a group of seven-year-old children who had contrasting backgrounds.
Michael Apted had difficulty finding a rural child to talk on camera, so bent the rules to include Hitchon, who was only six
Share 'He was amazing. He said we could only do 10 minutes at a time and I deliberately didn't see him until we had the camera there and rolling. 'He was very, very calm and very, very cool about it all. He then did an interview that lasted an hour and a half. I was gobsmacked by it. He really turned it on. He and I were really close. He was a real tower of strength for all of this, never letting me down.' Nick was raised on a small farm in Arncliffe, a village in the Yorkshire Dales, and educated in a one-room school four miles' walk from his home.