This chapter will discuss the Channel Four serials This is England '86 and This is England '88 in their specific television contexts. Although these serials form a transmedia narrative as sequels to the film This is England, we seek to engage with their televisuality, both textually (their style, their reference to antecedents and their use of archive television footage) and extra-textually (their promotional strategies and place within institutional discourses). Our analysis is framed by the serials' key themes – the weight of the past as revealed in returns, hauntings and traumatic memory – which are facilitated by the larger space of serial television and the multi-year timespan. Although the titles underline their period settings, the representation of Britain's collective past is not the serials' primary focus. Historical markers such as archive footage serve less as nostalgic cultural artefacts, sociopolitical interrogation or subcultural exploration and more as manifestations of memory in service of theme and characterisation. In particular, Lol's status as tragic centrepiece reveals a concern with subjectivity facilitated by the texts' interplay of different types of memory.