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Post by Cartman on Feb 16, 2016 21:30:53 GMT
Has anyone been watching this? It's a similar idea to the Christmas one mentioned previously but in a bit more detail, this time the family spends a week in one decade, focusing on leisure time and life in general, starting once again with the 50s.
its quite interesting but maybe not always 100% accurate, so far we have had three parts, I've just finished watching the 70s. I feel they have slightly made the same mistake with the 50s as with the first series, and made it a bit worse than it actually was. The 60s one was I think reasonably accurate, but an interesting point from the 70s programme was that all the family, and especially the two kids (girl looks about 15 or 16, boy is, I think 11) absolutely loved the 70s, the girl described the decade as awesome and brilliant. Which from my memories, it was. A glorious, exciting, creative roller coaster of a 10 years, from the power cuts of the winter of 73/4 (brilliant excuse for not doing your homework) to that fabulous summer of 76, accompanied by the most fantastic soundtrack of all time.
Lets see see what the remaining three are like
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 16, 2016 22:48:54 GMT
I loved last years Back In Time For Dinner series and have this sitting on the Tivo. I'm sure it will be a great watch.
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Post by Steve Austin on Feb 17, 2016 11:42:10 GMT
I've watched these and the earlier series and have enjoyed them although I think that this seriies is similar to what's been done before but focusses more on leisure rather than food/styles etc. Still very enjoyable though.
New family this time around, wonder what happened to the Robshaw's?
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 17, 2016 14:16:12 GMT
The series follows the format of Back In Time For Dinner with a closer look at all round life through the decades.
I watched the 50's episode last night and really enjoyed it. Love the way how the house is transformed into a pukka version of a 50s gaff.
My daughter was amazed at the social differences to today.
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Post by Cartman on Feb 28, 2016 22:16:08 GMT
I've just got round to watching the 80s episode, I thought it was quite well done, but I didn't enjoy it as much as the 60s and 70s for the simple reason that i didn't like the 80s! It was a reminder of how naff that decade was, awful fashion, materialism, increasing levels of consumer debt, music going off the boil, increasing Americanisation of culture.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Feb 28, 2016 22:48:26 GMT
A good idea for a show ( which I'm sure I've seen done before on tv ) but it's all a bit too superficial. The decor, clothing, food, etc. is changed but there's not much effort to make it an 'immersive' experience. For instance they all watched 'Threads' together & it looked as if they'd just been handed a dvd & told to sit down & watch it for the cameras. They ought to have watched it at night to get the full experience as it was originally shown in September at 9.30pm. Threads is one of the most depressing pieces of tv ever broadcast, watching it in broad daylight doesn't really do it justice.
The problem I have with this type of tv today is that the trust factor is completely out the window. How do we know they spend a week living in the 80's? Easier to get the family to perform on cue & then edit the footage together. Prior to 'reality tv' there were relatively few shows featuring members of the public, as a viewer you believed what you were seeing rather than assuming that most of the footage was staged.
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Post by Cartman on Mar 2, 2016 8:20:12 GMT
The 1990s episode was on last night which I watched and, to be honest, I thought that era wasn't radically different enough from the present day to be really worth bothering with. The only real differences were in the tech items which were, however, still immediately useable and recognisable.
Personally I have always felt that the 90s were a rather subdued and rather flat ending to a very dramatic century, they were not that distinctive and a bit of a nothing decade to me. Very much an era of two halves, the first half (1990-94) was awful and depressing, less tacky than the 80s maybe, but a kind of unpleasant hangover from it.
Then, Suddenly, in about 1995 the decade seemed to perk up, music became interesting again and there was a sense of optimism, Euro 96, we even won the Eurovision song contest and got rid of the Tory government.
Didn't last, sadly, though.
Next week, the last episode guesses at what the future might be like for leisure etc.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 2, 2016 21:25:52 GMT
Watched the 70s episode last night & really enjoyed it, though felt quite down after it- we'll never get those days back will we?  |
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Post by Gene Hunt on Mar 2, 2016 21:32:36 GMT
Watched the 70s episode last night & really enjoyed it, though felt quite down after it- we'll never get those days back will we? Sadly, No. |
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Post by Steve Austin on Mar 2, 2016 22:56:22 GMT
Watched the 70s episode last night & really enjoyed it, though felt quite down after it- we'll never get those days back will we? We were there though Arthur, we were there. |
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