back in time for the weekend bbc tue 8pm

[Blondeshavemorefun]

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.

[absolutelynotfabulous]

Ah! No, didn't see that one.

I'm interested in the Bingo thing-afaik Bingo has always been a wc pursuit. Anyone know any differently?

And she was moaning about her "freedom" again. She COULD have got a job! I get that it probably wouldn't have been the done thing but it's a massive overgeneralisation to state that women, in general, didn't work.

[RudeElf]

I would love to know where this myth that "women didnt work" came from. The way it is talked about sometime on MN and on shows like that you would think women working began in the 80's when we discovered shoulder pads! women have worked outside the home since time immemorial! Until very recently It has only been women from the upper classes who didnt work. SAHM's in the working classes are very recent in the grand scale of time.

[AvaLeStrange]

Nowhere near West Ham absolutely

[sayatidaknama]

absolutelynotfabulous the programme isn't set in the east end. It's SW London.

Lilabett I found the piano bashing very distressing.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Just watching now. Was out last night

Havnt ready any replies yet but totally shocked they destroyed that piano :(

[CurbsideProphet]

I'm watching now too blondes and had to look away when the destroyed that beautiful piano

[buddhasbelly]

Also just watching blondes - as a few PPs have said I prefer the old family, the mother in the old family was particularly funny without even meaning to be - I remember her battling with an old can opener and almost slicing her fingers off in Back in Time For Dinner!

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Mum overjoyed she didn't have to cook on the beach - a day of freedom

What she seems to forget is that hubby cooks every day usually

Amazed can get 3 in the back of a mini !!!!!

Dad is funny and getting into the swing of things as is the son

Saw my wind up drill again

[Blondeshavemorefun]

So said for piano :(

What was their pathetic reason for destroying it :(

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Omg subutteo - my brother had this in the late 70's and loved it

[buddhasbelly]

Yes it was unnecessary to get rid of the piano - I'm quite taken with the dad and the son not the mum - as far as I'm aware my gran wasn't "hooked on valium"

[AvaLeStrange]

Blondes we have Mr AH & bro's actual 70's Subbuteo table in our loft !

May have to dust it off at the weekend.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

ava you should have a play

I rem playing it with my brother but not till late 70's

[absolutelynotfabulous]

I don't know why I was thinking West Ham! Probably seeing Trevor Brooking being on. . ..although the area didn't look much like I remember West Ham to be fair...

blondes I don't remember anyone being 'hooked on valium" either-another myth, I suspect.

[Lilymaid]

DS had Subbuteo in the 1990s! But it lost its credibility when FIFA etc became available!
Piano smashing contests were very popular from the late 1950s. People were getting rid of their pianos to make room for TVs and radiograms. There was no resale market, so every fete had a piano smashing contest.
My DM managed without Valium as well - played tennis and badminton and worked part time. She seemed to manage all the housework and cooking and some leisure time without difficulty.

[absolutelynotfabulous]

I think you must be right about piano-smashing, lily. My piano (think back to late 60s) cost a fiver and was painted white to blend in with the "cool" ie white, decor.

[AvaLeStrange]

Tell a lie - it's an actual football table not subbuteo.

Just got round to watching this week's episode - much more enjoyable than the Fifties all round I think. Slightly wishing DD & I had taken them up on the offer to get involved now!

[madamginger]

Valium was the most widely prescribed drug in the world in the 1960s. It made its manufacturer over a billion dollars in between the 1963 and 1982 and more than 60 million scripts were written in the USA.
It was known as mothers little helper.

[absolutelynotfabulous]

We had Valium at home, so I think it was widespread. The only member of the household who took it was the dog. We used to give it to him on bonfire night.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

One wouldn't know about Valium. I was born early 70's

[AvaLeStrange]

Well, we've had a lovely day with the peeps themselves today.

Speaking to SIL, I can understand why she struggled so much with living with 50's/60's sexism and came across a bit grumpy about it.

Apparently they did have to live the life 24/7 for each period of filming. They set up a little office a short distance away and made BIL do period appropriate paperwork from 9-5 😀!

[RudeElf]

ava how long is it filmed over? Is it broken up into a couple of days at a time?

[AvaLeStrange]

It sounded gruelling tbh

Most of it was over the summer holidays last year. From what I can gather, the production company rented a house nearby that the family stayed in each weekend while they revamped the house, then they moved back in Mon-Fri for filming.

They were still filming odd bits until last month though - they only had the wrap party this week!

[RudeElf]

Oh wow! Thats a real commitment. I was expecting it to have taken a couple of weeks! How were they able to keep up with their normal jobs?

[springscoming]

I liked the family in Back in Time for Dinner more.