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BACK IN TIME FOR TEA - TUE 8pm bbc2

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Blondeshavemorefun · 04/02/2018 14:22

Love these kind of programmes

Over the course of 6 episodes the Ellis family experience first hand what life was like for working families over the past 100 yrs

Beginning 1918

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Akire · 21/02/2018 11:54

It’s interesting that while teenagers had freedom and money when left school at 15. More likely still end up married with kids 18/19/20 then be frowned upon to work so end up equally bored as your mum.

PhelanThePain · 21/02/2018 12:00

That’s true akire I suppose if you start living as an adult younger you will settle down to adult life younger too. These days teens and early twenties still living at home and mature a lot later but also choosing to marry and have babies later.

ppeatfruit · 21/02/2018 15:20

I think it depended on whether you were desperate to leave home because of the lack of space, privacy or whatever. ( Not all teenagers , but some of them married early to get away from home wherever they lived!).

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Blondeshavemorefun · 21/02/2018 19:48

Mr muscle - dad was funny

Girls enjoyed roast potatoes

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Blondeshavemorefun · 27/02/2018 14:50

shame its filmed in summer and warm

be good to see in cold weather/winter/being cold etc

can you tell blondes has snow Grin

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juneybean · 27/02/2018 21:47

How do they define what is working class?

5foot5 · 28/02/2018 13:05

Really enjoyed last night as the 1970s is really the decade of my childhood and teenage years.

DH sat there going "Oh we had one of those!" and "I remember that"

I do remember having pink custard for school lunch and we always had it with chocolate sponge too.

Mind you some of those recipes they tries were dodgy. Spaghetti hoops in pastry deep-fried!!! Cottage pie made with beef burgers. What were they thinking? My Mum NEVER cooked anything like that.

BMW6 · 28/02/2018 14:12

Ah the endless scorching summer of 76........ I was 18 Blush

maddiemookins16mum · 28/02/2018 20:06

Really enjoying this series but I have noticed the way the producers try and get a regular dig at Southerners into it on a pretty constant basis. I appreciate it's about life/food in the north but by some of the comments seem to indicate that they consider anyone living south of say Birmingham was wealthy beyond their wildest dreams and that 'working class' only existed up north".

woodhill · 28/02/2018 20:14

Yes I found that annoying. Property was cheaper and still is

Akire · 28/02/2018 22:44

Surprised they didn’t have smash much more likely to
Have that dried food week
In week out then Vesta rice. They didn’t really have any tinned fruit either.

I remember getting our first microwave in 85 bing amazed how quick you could warm things up. Also came with dodgy cookery book where you could make cakes and other things that tasted nothing like “real” ones.

Akire · 28/02/2018 22:47

Also do seem very well off, not sure what job the dad is supposed to have but with teenagers earning and mum not stuck at home young kids they would been much better off than a lot of working class on one wage alone.

BertieBotts · 01/03/2018 07:47

They did actually say they would be comparatively well off, though, having three incomes. And they said in the previous episode that manual workers often ended up earning more than white collar workers during the 60s so it was a change from having to struggle to survive. I think incomes between WC and MC were much closer in the 60s and 70s - the difference is that MC tend to have family who are well off as well whereas WC families of the time were probably the first generation not to struggle. Then since then we seem to have gone back to a much bigger income gap!

futuristic1 · 01/03/2018 08:02

Is the house just a 'front' - something they use for establishment shots but all the period interiors set in a studio?

It would seem a hell of an extravagance to properly fit new kitchens for every period. Take out modern heating etc.

We never see the bedrooms, bathroom or proper shots out through the windows.

Is it all a mock-up apart from the exterior shots.

Do they just spend a day filming cooking meals in each era, another day shooting appropriate 50s, 60s, 70s activities etc?

It's very enjoyable but it wouldn't do any harm if they exposed the 'workings' of the show.

PhelanThePain · 01/03/2018 09:57

Its their own house. The upstairs wasn’t touched as far as I know and the left hand side was closed off as the size was too big for accuracy. So it’s just the front room, kitchen and part of their garden that is changed. They didn’t live there while the show was being filmed.

Fionne · 01/03/2018 18:03

Ah the endless scorching summer of 76........ I was 18 blush

Me too.

What a summer it was.

And it’s reminded of the winters when we’d walk to school down the middle of 6 foot banks of snow.

fleaflyflo · 01/03/2018 20:25

I was surprised they didn't mention the scorcher of 76

Ah the memories of sweaty legs sticking to the vinyl seats in Dad's car Grin

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 01/03/2018 21:37

I thought they said they had converted half of the home. We've not seen bedrooms and bathrooms so we think they've stayed the same.

LoveMySituation · 01/03/2018 22:11

I read that Lesley applied for the show without telling Jon Grin <a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-02-27/back-in-time-for-tea-bbc-1970s/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjRs-ijkczZAhVMBMAKHf9BAHEQqQIIEzAC&usg=AOvVaw30V2Q_h9ljQlo_qJvOsi7r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this explains the interiors

1000piecepuzzle · 01/03/2018 22:15

I'd love a peek in the manuals they get. Is there going to be a book produced to go with the series?

Davros · 02/03/2018 10:02

I strongly dispute the food that is being cooked for dinner, its ALL convenience food in the programme and some really bizarre recipes. We did use convenience but my memory of home and my friends' hones, is mostly home cooked dinners. But we are southerners!

Orangesox · 02/03/2018 11:09

Interesting point to this weeks programme.

The typical Bradford school that Lesley went to work at was actually Bradford Grammar School (Sunday times Northern Independent School of the Year) Grin not quite so typical school!

It’s also where Caitlyn was working in her typing job!

Enjoying this immensely, it’s just a shame they’ve chosen to condense the eras down significantly compared to the previous series.

Fionne · 02/03/2018 11:59

We did use convenience but my memory of home and my friends' hones, is mostly home cooked dinners. But we are southerners!

We only had convenience food on the odd occasion as well. And that was the norm on my council estate in Scotland.

eddiemairswife · 02/03/2018 13:34

As a southerner, who was married to a northerner, I would say that very little convenience food was used at that time. Unless you count fish fingers (for children).

Davros · 02/03/2018 16:16

We would have toast toppers, cheese on toast or Angel Delight as treats or snacks if we were bored, but proper meals were still home cooked hearty grub most of the time