BACK IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND - mon bbc2 7pm

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Not sure if a repeat. Doesn’t say r on the guide

A family gives up their 21st century technology and travel back in time. As they enter the 50’s it’s goodbye to their flat screen tv and hello to a piano and darning 😂

I missed it, I'll have to catch up.

Threads was the scariest film I've ever seen, I didn't sleep for days after it was shown. My plan, should the 4 minute warning go off, was to sit in the middle of the road with my daughter and die as quickly as possible.

Indeed Captain threads was an awful film I saw it the 80,s and it terrified me for years I quite understand why the mum was still upset now .

Know we are going way off topic here but whats always haunted me about Threads is the hearing the escalating situation in the news, on the radio and TV in the background of their daily life, that slowly gets more and more amplified. Reminds me a lot of the Covid situation when back in Jan this was something that was a small story from the other side of the world.

Very true @Youngatheart00

Why do Mike and Alma drink in th Rovers anyway the live miles away or indeed Alf and Audrey who live in the nice part of Weatherfield ,why would you insist on going to that grotty little pub?

Oops sorry wrong thread ignore

I couldn't watch it (cowardly emojji) .

I remember the VCR's and going to the video store very well! Annie the film was just on video and DD1 was in floods of tears over it.

@Youngatheart00

Loved the one tonight - the VCR (as if it would be £2000 in today’s money, crazy), the Commodore 64, and watching Threads on a tiny portable TV (still one of the most impactful things I’ve ever watched).

And the garish fashions.....makes me nostalgic, even though I was only a small kid.

Like most things in the 80s technology was really expensive. Initially we used to rent a video player for the weekend if we wanted to watch a film. We eventually bought one and one of the highlights of our week was to go to Blockbusters and choose a video (that might have been in the 90s though).

I felt sorry for the poor mum.! What a boring life.

I just watched the first one so far. The kids, especially the daughter, seemed quite truculent about the lack of instant gratification because she's used to having what she wants when she wants it due to tech. Was she just being a teenager or is this what most kids/teens are like now? I only have a seven year old but while he adores his tech, he has a huge amount of other things in his life, including hobbies he shares with me/other family. He also spends at least half of his tech time creating, like making stop motion animation movies or creating his own games. The literal opposite of instant gratification as he'll spend weeks or months creating something that is 'consumed' in minutes.

I love the social history aspect of these programmes but I sort of hate the way they aim to maximise the generational disconnect and paint modern children as kind of clueless about life outside of technology. I think I'd genuinely like these shows better if the families were actually more capable and not encouraged to play up their cluelessness. The daughter making a cake in the 50s would be more interesting if she was actually comparing it to her own modern experiences of baking, etc. If her experience of the ballroom and early rock and roll dancing was compared to her own experience of dance and music. I mean what was her and he boyfriend pretending Rock Around the Clock was so crazy out there old fashioned? The son comparing making a 50s style tent with putting together a modern tent. I really, really do love these shows but picking a family based on plying up the cluelessness of it all, detracts from the experience for me.

The family in Leeds (can't remember what that one was called) and the shop family in Sheffield were much more competent.

It was Back in Time for Tea - the Ellis family.

Thanks guys! I'll try those next. I really do love the social history of it. Though the Chrstmas one is probably my very favourite. Even though that 80s Christmas doesn't resemble any Christmas I remember and all my favourite Christmases were in the 80s!

These are so good-I like this family as much as the Robshaws!

I like the focus on stuff outside of the kitchen-it’s fascinating. Don’t know how I missed this one the first time round.

By coincidence I watched Threads online a couple of weeks ago. By myself. At midnight. Bad move!
The aftermath of the bomb is grim, obviously.
But the run-up to the bomb is worse: civil unrest, riots, panic buying, martial law.
Staring disaster in the face and there's nothing you can do about it.

Imagine how scary it was in 1984 when we actually came close to it - the cold war and all that.

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

I wish they'd repeat them ALL starting with the Edwardian\Victorian? house . I love them.

The boy in this one often sounds brighter than the rest of the family! it was sad how he immediately got obsessed with the computer.

Captain I remember the Cuban crisis in the early 60s (I think) it was awful, a sort of end of our childhood innocence.

Looking forward to tonight’s

The 90’s. My era. Was just 20.

I love the Back in Time serieses, and DS(11) watches them on repeat when they are in iPlayer. I love them all, and really enjoyed “Cornershop” recently.

Yes I’m looking forward to the 90s one tonight too! 80s/90s resonate both with me as that’s what I grew up with. Love seeing the decor and fashion as well as the hobbies / pastimes. It’s been quite nice having them back to back each night this week. (Plus mentioning my crush on GC again....)

Gobsmacked at what he’s just said to her!

Gobsmacked at what he’s just said to her!

Which comment?

Mr Motivator?!! Rude!!

I have been loving this so far. I was born in the 70s but I can't remember Threads although I was a very sensitive child with a strong imagination so I probably wasn't allowed to watch it. Missed tonight but I'll watch it tomorrow.

I really enjoyed the Back in Time for School series. I found it fascinating on from a feminist perspective.

Mr M telling her she doesn’t have much up top or words to that effect.