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- A predecessor to modern reality shows in which a group of modern people live as Britons of the Iron Age.
- StarsHarry DodsonPeter ThodayAlison McKensieTelevision series following the restoration of a largely derelict walled garden at Chilton Lodge, Berkshire. The aim was to work the garden as it would have been in the Victorian era, using plants and practices from this period. Each episode follows a month of the year, and shows the tasks undertaken.
- StarsPeter ThodayHarry DodsonRuth MottTelevision series recreating the workings of a country house head cook.
- StarsPeter ThodayHarry DodsonA pleasant show about Victorian Flower Gardening.
- StarsPeter ThodayRuth MottHarry DodsonThis 8-part series takes readers back to the days when Hitler's U-boats patrolled the Atlantic, and imported foods were scarce. For the men, woman and children left behind during World War II, life changed dramatically. People who had never gardened before had to start growing their own fruit and vegetables, housewives had to cope with rationing, and their families had to get used to unfamiliar foods such as spam and nettle soup. Includes the personal memories of Ruth Mott and Harry Dodson (television's "Victorian" cook and gardener, respectively), as well as tales and anecdotes from many people who remember wartime cookery and "digging for victory".
- A modern English family embark on a real-life time-travel adventure to late Victorian London.
- CreatorJamie BrownStarsTom AnnikoBrian HartiganAlana LogieTwo couples assume the lives of early settlers to the West. Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt to build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops.
- StarsGeoffrey PalmerGuy de la BédoyèreNorman LongmateReality show. A couple, their daughter and two grandchildren volunteer to spend several weeks living under wartime conditions. That includes all their clothing, including underclothes and nightwear; being constantly pushed to keep up with traditional grooming methods and dealing with severe shortages of all grooming products such as tooth care products, all types of soap and shampoo, shaving supplies for Michael; learning to live with rationing (12 ounces of candy a month, 4 ounces of ham a week, etc.,) and digging up the back yard partly for extra vegetables and partly for an "Anderson" air raid shelter. Several historians and "experts" formed a War cabinet to direct events, and push the family through 6 years of war in those weeks.
- StarsYasmin BillinghurstBrenda PhillipsA group of 17 volunteers attempt to live for seven weeks as their Iron Age ancestors did over 2,000 years ago in authentic roundhouses on a hill fort at Castell Henllys in west Wales.
- StarsDerek JacobiHugh EdgarAnna Olliff-Cooper21 people from the 21st century are being brought together in an Edwardian Country House. 6 of them are the Upstairs family and the 15 others are the servants. For three months, these people have only the rulebook and each other...
- CreatorJamie BrownStarsAlana LogieFrank LogieRoseAnna SchickQuest For The Bay follows an eight-person volunteer team as they attempted to recreate the journey made by fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company during the 1840s by travelling from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. The trip covered a distance of 800 miles (1200 kilometers) and took the team though the heart of the Canadian wilderness.
- StarsAndrew LewisDominic FrisbyChristopher TerrillIn 1768, Captain James Cook and the crew of Endeavour set out from England to Tahiti and Australia. The documentary follows the exact replica of Endeavour and its 21st-century voluntary crew on a six-week journey from the east coast of Australia to Jakarta, Indonesia. The 55 men and women onboard - among them the director, producer & cameraman Chris Terrill - come from several different countries and nationalities. The crew traces Cook's footsteps from one historical landmark to another. Amids the modern-day disputes between the crew members, we see re-enacted scenes of the different events on Cook's perilous journey.
- StarsJohn PyrahRichard IngramLance GaddA group of modern day volunteers relive the experience and events surrounding life in a reconstructed World War One trench in Northern France.
- StarsKathryn WalkerAdrienne CluneJustin CluneModern families time-travel to 1883 Montana for homesteading, learning hard work, community, and sacrifices. Back in 21st century, they reflect on past and present values.
- CreatorJamie BrownStarsDan McLeanAs seen on PBS comes this new "living history" series about eight "average people" (7 men and one women) who volunteer to relive an adventure. The epic 1200 kilometer journey by the Hudson's Bay Company fur traders of 1840s from Winnipeg, to the Hudson Bay.
- StarsJohn WallerKeith DucklinJonathan BrowneModern day soldiers, policemen and sportsmen get to grips with their historical counterparts by re-enacting the roles of Romans, Vikings and Medieval Warriors.
- StarsJohn SessionsPaul McGannRichard E. GrantContemporary high school students volunteer to experience life in a tradition English grammar school for the summer.
- StarsKathryn WalkerDon WoodBethany WyersA group of ordinary people arrive on a boat to 1628 and have to build a functioning colony, using only time appropriate resources. Their goal: survive for 4 months and pass the final evaluation.
- StarsRichard E. GrantLarushka Ivan-Zadeh GriaznovChris Gorell BarnesA "reality" tv series where five men and five women spend 9 weeks at a country house, Kentchurch, living as if they were in 1811 England. The house is staffed by 40 servants. An interesting study of life and courtship in Regency England. It is kind of a Jane Austin theme park.
- StarsSarah WienerSvenja BrillTim KluckAdventure 1900 - Life in the manor house.
- CreatorJamie BrownStarsTom AnnikoMonte MurrayAnna WheelerQuest for the Sea is a 4x1-hour living history documentary series that follows 2 families as they return to a lost way of life in a remote fishing village in Newfoundland. In simple wooden homes with only the tools, clothing, and supplies of 1937, five adults and five children will live under a mercantile system and need to rely on cod fishing for their sustenance and survival.
- StarsJohn R. WalkerSamantha D'SouzaJason Webster21st Century people swapping modern lives for 1940's wartime Britain
- StarsCarolyn GraceGeoffrey WellumBob DoeYoung pilots follow in the footsteps of the men who fought the Battle of Britain.
- StarsManfred LehmannTen weeks at sea - 7454 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean, through umpteen climatic zones; in cramped conditions onboard a nutshell exposed to sun, wind and high seas; with hard work, meagre rations, but the spectacle of a starry night sky: this is a journey into the past. In the autumn of 2004, a vintage sailing vessel travelled from Bremerhaven to New York with 19 passengers, 18 crew onboard and a TV-team. This documentary series is about how a group of people, who are accustomed to a modern standard of life, adapt to the far harder conditions their ancestors were exposed to in the 1850s. How do they do? Does their spirit of adventure triumph over the frustration of having to subsist on dried meat and rusk for six long weeks? What does it feel like to fight against fear, chapped and bleeding hands and seasickness? The conditions onboard the vessel emulate the historical conditions exactly, from the clothing of passengers and crew to equipment, food and accommodation available 150 years ago. "Setting Sail to the New World" tells the story of all the European emigrants who have made this journey over the centuries. Many millions tried to escape poverty, war, political oppression and religious intolerance in search of a better, brighter future. But this series does not simply tells us about history - it invites us to relive history.
- StarsSusanne VogelA young woman time-travels to the Roaring Twenties. As the lady of a plush manor in Germany 1927, she entertains her guests who visit for a summer in the country. Formal etiquette is abandoned, living is easy. New technologies challenge and excite - electricity, radio, the automobile. In the cellar below, fellow time-travelers work tirelessly as housemaids and servants. Despite their status, they are of equal ability and education as 'those above'. A recipe for revolution...
- StarsJack ThompsonJohn MaynardMichael McKernanTwo 21st Century families from Britain and Ireland are sent to see how they would cope had they been transported to New South Wales 200 years ago when it was a penal colony. Together with an Australian family and Aborginals they learn just how tough you needed to be to survive back then.
- StarsPaul AllcornOutback house follows the incredible journey of a small group of intrepid Australians. who, travel back in time almost 150 years to live on a remote, 10,000 acre sheep station.
- CreatorAaron LeeStarsAshley McCarthyAaron LeeSarah BrayTwelve modern kids are taken and put in a house where they live like they're in the 1970s. They can't use anything that didn't exist in the 70s, including cellphones and iPods! They even have to use phrases from the 70s, such as "groovy" and "foxy." If they bring up anything modern, they can be brought to the elimination round. The winner will receive some huge prizes when they get back to living in 2005. Do these foxy kids have what it takes to live a groovy 70s life?
- StarsOwen TealeRuth GoodmanPeter GinnThe series follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate the everyday farm life from the age of the Stuarts; they wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.
- StarsJoe MurrayRichard NauyokasDennis WatermanDocumentary series following 30 bad lads over a four-week period as they go through army basic training 1950s style.
- StarsDebbie ChazenThe Jive AcesRoy HuddFifty modern holidaymakers have agreed to swap their normal two weeks of freedom for the regimented and wholesome experience at Sunshine Camp.
- StarsRandy QuaidKathryn WalkerStanley JohnstonA group of young men and a California suburban family agree to live and work on a typical Texas cattle ranch for two months, according to the customs and technologies of the 1860's.
- DirectorChris MitchellStarsDominic FrisbyMarc MeltonvilleRuth GoodmanA group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes from the era, food sourced from the land and the absence of modern conveniences.
- StarsGiles CorenSue PerkinsRoy MarsdenA comedienne & a humor writer try their hand at living in different eras. They dress, eat, and live the past. Before and after, their vitals are tested to see how these lifestyles affect their health.
- StarsNerys HowellTerry WaltonChris WilliamsThree families are transported back to 1927 and the war years to experience life in the mines without modern conveniences.
- StarsCandice Edwards-MarchronesHugh EdgarJane DeVille-AlmondFollows nine overweight people as they try to lose weight using dieting and fitness regimes from the Victorian era and the 1920s.
- StarsStephen NoonanPeter GinnRuth GoodmanIn this unique project, historian Ruth Goodman as well as archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn immerse themselves in the life of the Victorian farmer as he would have lived on the Acton Scott Estate.
- StarsRobert LlewellynBen HighmoreGia MilinovichA family undergoes an experiment to experience life from 1970-1999 over a 30-day period, in order to explore how the technological advancements have changed life in Britain over the three decades.
- StarsHugh BonnevilleJuliet GardinerGregg WallaceThree families live for a week at a time in three adjoining houses on Albert Road, Morecambe over 5 episodes. First episode has them living as Edwardians with servants in 1900s. Second episode has them living in 1920s. Third episode has same families living as though during the 1939-45 World War. Fourth episode has a new coloured family instead, living through 1960s.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnAlex LanglandsIn this 12-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman go back in time to the early 1900s to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year.
- StarsStephen NoonanNick BarberRuth GoodmanLife in a 19th-century pharmacy is re-created in this four-part documentary. Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and doctorate student Tom Quick discover how people attempted to cure common ailments beginning at the time of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, when remedies such as leeches, oil of earthworm and opium potions were commonly used.
- StarsLotta LundgrenErik HaagBengt af KlintbergThe hosts sample the food and lifestyle through Swedish history.
- StarsJohn SimmPeter GinnRuth GoodmanWartime Farm, is an eight-part British historical docuseries in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted. First broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012.
- StarsGeraldine JamesRuth GoodmanPeter GinnHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
- StarsRuth GoodmanPeter GinnTom PinfoldHistorian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellMary BerryBack In Time For Dinner, one British family embark on an extraordinary time traveling adventure to discover how a post war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they'll go from meager rations to ready meals and delivery pizza in just six weeks.
- StarsKlint JanulisDean Lennox KellyJulian BarrattFollow 20 British people who are sent to a remote region of Bulgaria to live the lives of their Stone Age ancestors by trying to survive for two months in the wilderness.
- StarsTony RobinsonCassie NewlandKirstie AlleyCelebrities are taken back in time to live and work as they did in medieval Britain.
- StarsFi GloverTyger Drew-HoneyZöe LuckerIn this historical docuseries, six celebrities experience the relentless graft of Victorian Britain.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellChristopher BigginsThe Robshaws return as they travel through six decades experiencing the festivities of the time from the 40s all the way up to the 90s.
- StarsAnnie GrayAlex LanglandsHarpreet BauraFour professional bakers leave their modern businesses behind to experience what their profession was like in the past as they bake their way through the Victorian era.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellDerrick EvansFor one summer, the Ashby Hawkins family give up their 21st-century technology and travel back in time to discover the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950.
- StarsIngo SchusterA reality TV series "experiment" where 7 adults and 6 children live in a recreation of a stone-age settlement. Based on the famous Oetzi (frozen stone age man found in the alps in 1991).
- StarsAnnika FeyenJanice FeyenJessie FeyenMichael, his wife and 3 children were the chosen family for TVNZ documentary "Pioneer House" based on the UK version, which centres round living in a 19th century house and the lifestyle at the turn of the 20th century.
- StarsJohn WallerKeith DucklinJonathan BrowneModern day soldiers, policemen and sportsmen get to grips with their historical counterparts by re-enacting the roles of Romans, Vikings and Medieval Warriors.
- StarsGiles CorenPolly RussellJohn TorodeA family goes back to 1900 to experience life, food, social etiquette and dress styles through the coming decades.
- StarsMichael MosleyA group of 15 volunteers aged between 10 and 59 are transported back to Victorian London as they spend three weeks living and working in a recreation of the notorious Old Nichol slum in Bethnal Green in London's East End.
- StarsCat BigneyBill SchindlerExperimental archaeologist Bill Schindler and survival instructor Cat Bigney attempt to face what our earliest ancestors did as they explore and survive in the wild. Starting with primitive humans from 2.6 million years ago, each episode portrays another step in our evolutionary development.
- StarsAnnie GrayEmma DabiriCynthia StroudModern-day confectioners relive the world of historical sweets making centuries-old treats from original recipes guided by historians Annie Gray and Emma Dabiri.