<P> My Mother and Other Strangers is a 2016 British television drama series, written by Barry Devlin, made by BBC Northern Ireland with funding from Northern Ireland Screen . The story is set in 1943 during World War II, in a small village in Northern Ireland . </P> <P> Commissioning of the first series of five 60 - minute episodes for BBC1 was announced in May 2015 . The series began airing on the PBS network in the U.S. in June 2017, as part of PBS' Masterpiece series . </P> <P> My Mother and Other Strangers is set in 1943 during the Second World War in the fictional village of Moybeg, on the shores of Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland . The series centres on the Coyne family and their neighbours, as they come to terms with the influx of thousands of American servicemen of the USAAF Eighth Air Force into their small, rural community . The writer, Barry Devlin, who himself grew up in the small village of Ardboe on the shores of Lough Neagh, stated that he wanted to create an "exotic love story" set in the familiar surroundings of a place he recognised . </P>

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