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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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megletthesecond · 23/02/2016 20:46

Nick Kamen !

Pipbin · 23/02/2016 21:22

I loved that he went to watch the royal wedding with his mum but had never seen the footage.
I found it interesting how the children called the video a VCR. No one called them that in the 80s.
It was very touching when the mum was upset by Threads and the daughter comforted her.

ppeatfruit · 24/02/2016 11:26

I thought they might bring the family a betamax VCR anyone remember them? Grin

Because dh was in the biz. we got one and it just added to the pile of crap rotting in the attic! It was the beginning of the 'built in obsolescence'.

member · 24/02/2016 13:57

I remember when the Fiesta was launched; we went to a cheese and wine at the Ford garage!

We did have a video recorder and I had a non-Sony personal cassette player.

We didn't have anything approaching 80s-style interiors though - I remember feeling slightly resentful that we didn't have a fashionable house as a teen. I can see now that that was a good thing (I'm ignoring the fact we did have a burgundy bathroom suite cos we inherited that with the house). Last night's programme again illustrated that we weren't nearly as well off as that family in the 80s!

I do remember the pervasive fear of nuclear war, studying texts relating to it in English and various tv programmes.

I thought the mum had a lovely figure in her workout clothes and was v brave to be shown in head to toe lycra!

ppeatfruit · 24/02/2016 16:15

A bit odd that she said it was ok to go out as a married woman in the 80s , I married in 75 and I never stopped going out with my mates from college till now!! that's a good 40 years or so !!

YouMakeMyDreams · 25/02/2016 12:26

I've just caught up on the 80's.
Really enjoyed that one. Loved that the dad had gone and camped out for the royal wedding with his mum. He looked like he was enjoying reliving the memory.
I was a child in the 80's and remember so much of that and all the technology we got then and renting the tv and video from radio rentals meant my parents always ahd the most up to date model my dad is still like that even now.
I seen an old argos catalogue from 1985 recently and it had the zx spectrum in it for £119 was shocked we had one and that is a phenomonal aount of money for the time.

I have great memories of the 80's and this episode made it look as fun as I remember. Wonder if the dd's teenage years in the 90's next week will be anything like mine were looking forward to that one.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 28/02/2016 21:11

Ha ha. No knowledge at all

Loved the 80's

That's my era :)

The clothes and esp the video recorder / tho I rem beta before vhs

Dallas dynasty tho didn't watch them

Rem Diana's wedding and mum had a tea towel and mug

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Blondeshavemorefun · 01/03/2016 09:51

The 90s
Back in Time for the WeekendEpisode 5 of 6

In episode five, our family enter the 90s, a decade where new technology arrives at a dizzying pace and increasingly starts to dominate their leisure time. 12-year-old Seth finally gets his hands on a Game Boy and games console, while the arrival of the internet and a mobile phone (albeit in their clunky early guises) marks the start of the road to how we all spend our spare time now.

It is not all about the tech though - Steph and Rob go all Billy Ray Cyrus and try out line dancing, and 90s fitness star Mr Motivator pops along to their local gym to put them through their paces. And it couldn't possibly be the 90s without tribute to the lifestyle programmes that dominated our TV schedules - Tommy Walsh and Linda Barker turn up to help the whole family give the house and garden a real 90s makeover.

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RudeElf · 01/03/2016 20:06

Who is watching tonight?

Did dad just admit to being chemically altered for much of the 90's? Grin

TendonQueen · 01/03/2016 20:10

He did Smile

Expecting to like this as I had good times in the nineties. That living room's awful though.

RudeElf · 01/03/2016 20:13

Im enjoying the music

RudeElf · 01/03/2016 20:14

90's decor was dire! All changing rooms and that bright orange or royal blue and cloth rubbing technique of painting.

ppeatfruit · 01/03/2016 21:23

I certainly don't remember orange rooms in the 90s (and I was not under the influence of alcohol let alone anything else!).

I DO remember the terrible paint effects though and everyone adding dado rails, and cornices plus flowery wallpaper to houses that were not built in the 50s let alone the Edwardian times!!

Tonight is such a good night on telly with the Interior Challenge on too, we're spoilt!

I liked that family a lot! Loved the attempt at line dancing! That was fun I enjoyed doing that too.

RudeElf · 01/03/2016 21:29

Oh god there seemed to be an orange or 'burnt orange' sitting room in nearly every other house when i was a child. Maybe it was an NI thing Wink

Sidge · 01/03/2016 21:31

I remember the 90s decorating fashion being for "terracotta" rather than orange!

bluebump · 01/03/2016 21:31

I liked it tonight. I remember our house being decorated with bright colours and dado rails. I had quite a few of the things in tonight's show - a gameboy, the mobile phones, the nights out and dance music (not to any superclubs!) I always wanted one of those iMac's but never got one, we used to use them in college.

RudeElf · 01/03/2016 21:33

Oh maybe its terracotta i'm thinking of! We had terracotta tiles in the kitchen and hall. It felt very modern at the time Grin but not actually it was definitely orange i'm thinking of as terracotta isnt bright.

RudeElf · 01/03/2016 21:34

I can see the living rooms and one kitchen in my head right now.

Pipbin · 01/03/2016 22:10

DH chuntered about the wrong operating system in the Mac.

Pipbin · 01/03/2016 23:22

The mum is on Twitter. @steph_ashby

Seems they went out for dinner with the Robshaws from Back in Time For Dinner.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 02/03/2016 00:01

Love this. The family are really nice too. I do yearn for the 80's and 90's, I can see why the daughter really enjoyed it, the music was amazing.

ppeatfruit · 02/03/2016 10:27

Terracotta!!! Our sitting room had a shag pile fitted carpet in that colour, when we moved in, in the early 80s Shock I thought it was left over from the 70s. Does anyone watch the Interior Challenge? it seems that bleedin' orange is back again!!!! Shock

5Foot5 · 02/03/2016 13:22

God is it really that long since Ground Force was on the TV!!

megletthesecond · 02/03/2016 20:10

5foot there's a Ground Force front garden near us. It's changed over time but you can still see the structure almost 20yrs on. I always have a little peek when I drive past.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 04/03/2016 21:50

I don't rem bright colours in my parents house

And end of 90's I brought my own home and had a mortgage. Scary !!!!!

Lakeside is near me

Love sonic. Have on my phone

And Nokia. I was one of the first of my friends to get a mobile phone - was about 20 - so 1993

Centre parks. Went to many with ma and pa

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