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Telly addicts

back in time for the weekend bbc tue 8pm

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Blondeshavemorefun · 02/02/2016 20:12

anyone watching?

love programmes like these

1- the 50's

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen TV and hello to a piano and some darning.

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5Foot5 · 09/02/2016 22:35

That looked like a very modern phone box for the 60s. I remember the one in our village still had button A and button B until the late 60s.

Delighted that they covered the moon landing. I remember it vividly because it was also my 7th birthday. We got up very early to watch it and I was given my presents to open at the same time, but I literally didn't know where to look because I didn't want to take my eyes off the TV for a second but I also wanted to see my groovy new watch (purple strap and a green face)

I was shocked at the piano smashing though

80sMum · 09/02/2016 22:47

"The wind up drill made my DF laugh"

^This description made me laugh too! It's a hand drill. Nothing wind-up about it! I think I may still have one somewhere.

Rather more scary thought is that I remember my dentist (in the '60s) using a drill that he powered with a foot pedal!

Akire · 09/02/2016 22:48

I'm glad explained why smashing up good piano that just looked bad. But made more sense but I woulnt have done it!

fairycakecentral · 10/02/2016 07:02

I'm glad they explained about the piano smashing but I think they could still have said something like but today, we be donating this piano to charity. They didn't actually have to smash it!

The girl's attitude tothe dad when watching the telly was shocking. I have a very cheeky child but he doesn't get away with it. The mum here seemed amused by her daughter telling the dad, very sternly, to shoosh then moan that his talking meant she couldn't hear. If I had spoken to my dad like that ....

A better episode this week and it's was nice o see the mum smile a bit more but I do miss the last family (totally forgotten their last name).

MissWimpyDimple · 10/02/2016 07:32

It really is very very middle class. My gran ran her own business in the fifties and employed staff to look after the kids

Having said that, this show portrays the extremes. They get all the newest things and follow latest fads etc.

I remember in the dinner one, thinking that our kitchens and gadgets were about 15 years behind the robshaws !

It was an odd choice for the family, obviously they had to look for a contrast (if you remember the robshaws also had the dad as the main cook/bottle washer) but perhaps this is a little extreme. It's not common to find a male childminder/home figure.

Agree that finding the mum and daughter hard to warm to.

bigTillyMint · 10/02/2016 08:15

fairycake, I take it you don't have a teenage girl? She was pretty polite and self-controlled IMHE

I agree, the phone box looked more 70's than 60's though I'm sure it must be right. Most people in the 60's had stuff from the 50's in their homes - not everyone could afford to get the new stuff straight away. But I did recognise quite a few things!

absolutelynotfabulous · 10/02/2016 08:16

I'm glad someone else noticed the girl's cheek towards her dad. I'd have had a clip round the ear for that. I thought that was cheeky even by today's standards.

The family are warming up a bit, but it's waaay too "touchy feely" for the Sixties, imho. Fathers and sons "spending quality time together"? Nah. I remember hating time with my parents as it was terribly uncool. And I remember distinctly being shushed and shooed out of their way, too.

Like a pp, I remember the button phones too. That one looked too modern (and too clean). One thing I remember very distinctly about phone boxes is the overwhelming smell of fags. And pee; if you were unlucky the phone books would have been wringing wet with pee.

It's interesting, but a very stereotypical view; there's very little social comment considering the upheaval. And programme makers always present the 60s as though everyone was "swinging"; in fact it took a while for most places to catch up.

ohtheholidays · 10/02/2016 08:40

I'm just catching up on the second one now and I agree about the Piano all I kept thinking is what a waste!and the daughter how she spoke to her poor Dad and she knew this was going to be seen by lots of people.I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed it and we have 3 teenagers in the house and a DD preteen as well.
I wondered if the parents didn't pick her up on it because they were a bit shocked and not sure how to handle it with a film crew in they're living room.

The going out to work as well,my Nan did and she was a teenager in the 1920's and my Mum went out to work as well and she was born in 1942,most of my aunties did as well and they're in they're 80's and late 70's now.

fairycakecentral · 10/02/2016 08:44

Bigtillymint - no teenage girl, just a 9 year old boy who acts like the American brats he sees on the American tv shows (which we've now banned

MrsJayy · 10/02/2016 08:48

Watched them both my nan worked and had kids she did all sorts of jobs her husband died in 59 she worked full time her children both sexes had to do their bit so I really don't think it was a true reflection of all women making cushion s and washing dishes and there is no way a middle class housewife would go to bingo

dottypotter · 10/02/2016 13:27

the granny on the day out looked like a man dressed as a woman.

The origami was good.

Didn't know you could phone music on a phonebox. When the children said we have our own mobile phones who pays I bet they don't. Kids today have too much and expect parents to buy it all. Wait till you can afford it yourself.

5Foot5 · 10/02/2016 13:40

the granny on the day out looked like a man dressed as a woman.

She is the MIL of someone on this thread you know!

IslaMann · 10/02/2016 13:50

Just to derail slightly.. ... Never mind the family, how have I never noticed how fit Giles Coren is before now? (Or is that post-partum hormones talking?)

absolutelynotfabulous · 10/02/2016 15:21

isla definitely post partum hormones imho!

MrsJayy · 10/02/2016 15:56

Fancying giles has to be a hormonal thing

RudeElf · 10/02/2016 16:05

I enjoyed this show last night (didnt see the first one)

It is very middle class. Would like to see from the perspective of an immigrant family or a single mother or a person with a disability.

Agree girl was not coming across as pleasant!

dottypotter · 10/02/2016 16:46

loads of teenagers aren't pleasant today.

bigTillyMint · 10/02/2016 17:01

Fairy cake, I banned Tracy Beaker back in the day for the same reason. Sadly Tracy Beaker is looking rosy compared to my DD today!

Yes yes, how fab if they did one with an "unmarried mym" or an "immigrant" family - that would be so interesting. I hope the programme makers are reading this thread.

RudeElf · 10/02/2016 17:06

Am i right in remembering there was a series a couple of years ago, maybe channel 4, that did several families through the century? There was a range of income levels represented and I think a single parent family and a non white family. Does anyone know what i'm talking about. There was also one that did the changeing face of the high street down the years but i dont think its the same one i'm thinking of.

absolutelynotfabulous · 10/02/2016 17:13

rude was the changing face of the high street about London? That was really interesting if so.

Can't remember the other one, though.

Thinking about it, the programme hasn't mentioned immigration at all, has it? Yet surely in London there would certainly be quite a lot of them by this time.

Isn't the prog set in West Ham (hence Trevor Brooking) or am I assuming too much? (or the area West Ham play in).

RudeElf · 10/02/2016 17:21

rude was the changing face of the high street about London?

I cant remember but i have a feeling it wasnt. It seemed more town high street but maybe was suburb of london.

Its bugging me now. Going to have a google.

RudeElf · 10/02/2016 17:23

And yes definitely in the 60's there was lots of immigration in the cities wasnt there?

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RudeElf · 10/02/2016 17:25

This is the high street one.

RudeElf · 10/02/2016 17:29

Ok so they were both BBC. Turn back time: the family and turn back time: the high street.

Lilabett · 10/02/2016 17:50

The piano smashing was in the 60s but the programme is made in the 21st century, the piano smashing may be reminiscent of the 60s but since that time is passed, there was no need to smash a lovely piano. They could have got some made up a non working one for to smash, but a perfectly good one is wrong. It could have gone to a community centre or charitable group! I hope people have complained to the BBC about that!

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