The technology my parents valued most when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s was two legs and about 2000 books. The world was my playground and books were my universe.
What a great TV show, even the theme song is awesome! I watched it with my young kids, they loved seeing how things were when I was a little kid - well done BBC! cheers from Canada.
I was 11 in 1970, so I remember the early 70s very well. The biggest changes between then and now are family meals and the communal TV watching in the living room. As homes were not as warm, comfortable and full of entertainment as they are now, children played outside if the weather allowed. I remember that adults encouraged children to 'go out and play' because they felt that it was unhealthy to stay indoors all the time and, of course, they wanted some peace and quiet. The power-cuts in 1973 went on for weeks, but were not as sudden as the programme showed. Every evening, just after 7pm, the lights flicked off and on for a second, which was the signal from the electricity company that we had 20 minutes or so to get the candles ready. The power would then be off until early the next morning. These days even the momentary flicking of the lights would play havoc with all the electronic devices and timers we have now.
In the 70's... If you missed any of the classic holiday specials... you WILL wait an entire year to see them again. "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
Oh man the 70's.....where did it all go...... I've had dreams of living during these times.. The beautiful music, the vibes, the magic of not being saturated with unnecessary technology.....*sigh* Exquisite idea for a documentary:)
mys TeirOumatt.777 sorry but can you post your comments with a slitely better post name please,??? i ask politly, i know what you mean , I crave to go back to the 1970's today,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIGHT NOW, I'M Prepaired to Leave now, October 2021, I Dispised to 21,st centry, I heat It,?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,. Anybody freel the same, way, ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????,.
I was a teenager growing up in the 70s these were the best years of my life, as a family we sat around the big wooden framed colour tv watching variety tv shows and of course top of the pops glam rock . I think petrol was around 60-80pence a gallon, tudor crisps were 2 pence a bag, sweets shops had jars of sweets on the shelves at 5pence for a quarter, christmas time was so special for me in the 70s, plus all my family & relations were living in the 70s and have now sadly passed away........... Give me back the 1970s
No central heating, fire place in living room and calor gas on landing. One shared bathroom (personally now still, no change). As a child reading books in bed (no tv in bedroom). Parents come and turn out lights (torch out). Walking to school, playing outside (safer then in numbers and every parent kind of knew each other). I was so excited one birthday when I got a tape cassette player for my birthday (with 3 blank cassettes). Set ready by TV waiting for TOTP to come on. Meals at the table together at a timely manner. One mistake was making freezers bigger. Convenience food shopping of quick cook, processed meals. There was routine in life, children had their boundaries in place (be home by time, bed by time). I am proud to be 70's/80's child
I absolutely agree with everything you said. I was always outside with my friends. On Holiday’s you would spend time with the family then it was outside with all your mates for a game of football or riding bikes and skateboards all over the place.
my parents grew up in the 70s in communist Poland. The flats might've been small but centrally heated and my mother's parents managed to get their hands on an automatic washing machine sometime around 1973 after a train wagon of domestic appliances was accidentally sent to my grandfathers workplace.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 For me, the seventies were not that liberating. I was in secondary school from 1971 to 1976. There was a verge of grass on which we sat in summer or whenever the weather was fine. A teacher soon put paid to that by saying that it was unsafe. To this day, I do not know why.
I remember moving in to a new house with my mum and dad in 1990. It was built in 1975 and had not been touched since then. The previous owner bought it off plan, decorated it in 1975 and it was like stepping in to a time warp by 1990. I loved it. Although it did have two bathrooms, large open rooms with a big open arch between the lounge/dining room and full length windows in the lounge/dining room. Electric storage heating though. A blue bathroom suite and some crazy carpets haha.
Because the producers know that the people (who would suffer that nightmare) would eventually file suit for being subjected to cruel & unusual treatment. No millennial could withstand the shock of 70's, 80's & 90's tech.
Yes to the previous comment 👍 one thing they have missed is that the lady of the house had a glass of wine in her hand ! Wine was a pure luxury back then & even then would be a bottle of blue nun on a special occasion!!!!!!
We weren't allowed in the house until dinner unless the weather was so bad we were in danger of being killed. After dinner we went right back out that door. It was so hot in the house we didn't want to be in there in the summer anyway.
Those mixed tapes took a hell of a lot of time & skill to get right...Then the car cassette deck would eat the thing...The tears & tantrums I had over a shreaded cassettes in my car was absolutely stupid..I love my play lists...No scratced record's or CDs is brilliant..
Decks and tapes aren't virtually extinct. Just go in the majority of the homes of the over 80s in the British middle class. I admire Hamish for going into town. He left a note, bless him. I rarely told my family where i was. My son (in the 1980s), when he was about 11, decided he's had enoughof shopping in town with us, so I gave him the money to get the train home. He rolled in several hours after, having got on the wrong train and having to use his ingenuity to get back home. Surprisingly, I wasn't worried.
I am a Canadian with too many thoughts in my head, but this is one of many time travel docs I've watched from the UK and love them. Too bad there aren't any resorts with cottages set in different eras for everyone to enjoy.🇨🇦
Canadian too! Blown away at 12:09 when the narrator says half of British homes didn't have a phone line in 1970! WTH? I was born in 1964 and was from a very modest family in Ontario, but I remember from the earliest age we always had a phone (rotary dial wall-mounted) and all my parents' friends and people we knew had phones too. Britain seemed to be way behind even then.
The excitement when my father said he had managed to buy a box of candles from the newsagent, just in case the electricity was switched off. Failing that we huddled around the cooker gas rings for some light and heat. I can see us there now.
funny thing is, is that is how I was brought up in the late 90s and 2000s, no computer until I was 12 (2007), no central heating, no automatic washing machine, spin dryer and a sink. the cooker I still use looks very similar to there one. no dishwasher, electric emission heater for hot water. no sky TV only had the 4 channels. didn't have a CD player till 2007, welli had a small portable one but are 'hifi' was a 1980s stack system with twin cassest decks. and even to this day i still have no internet connection at home apart from the 3G on my phone!! so I do think that family is a load of wimps.
I was born in '78. I do remember record players, playing outside with no cell phones & just being a kid. I live in the U.S. i do remember being the remote control for my nana's tv. I love the Polaroid camera. Instant pictures. I played with my nana's Polaroid
The average family in the UK in 1969 still used sheets and blankets. Duvets were an expensive luxury. If the family didn't have central heating, them it's almost certain they didn't have duvets either! We kept warm at night with flannelette sheets!
Mum would give our sheets a quick going over with her electric iron. We were thrilled since the upstairs was a deep freeze at night. No, we didn't have duvets.
@@Miniver765 excellent idea 😁 My dad made a frame thing that had a light bulb attached to it, that went under the sheet. Surprisingly warm bed to get into. We got a brick out of the fire, wrapped in a towel at my grandparents' house. Didn't get a duvet until I was married in the '80s. It was a wedding present, come to think of it.
@@nicolarollinson4381 Oh yes, Mum was quite clever in her way. With Dad gone for work most of the time, she had to be. LOL, as ours was such an old house, each room had only one, certainly no more than two, electric points. My brother and I would push our beds nearest those at the start of cold weather, and back next the window come spring. I don't recall anyone mentioning anything about duvets until the 80's. If you had one you were looked on as well posh. Well done for your Dad on that ingenious invention of his!
Wonderful nostalgia! Imagine being able to adjust your tv settings just by turning a knob, now it takes me about 10 touches on a remote control to reset contrast, brightness and colour.
Obviously. Hopefully we will have Aquatic highways and underground "Earthscrapers" built soon (We are almost in the 2020s, which is daunting for me to think about, since my childhood was in the 2000s)
Wait a minute. In 1971 the mother is making the children's beds and complaining that no one in the family has offered to help with the chores? I was making my own bed at 6 and helping with other household chores. My parents didn't wait for me to offer. I was told to help. Or else. I was a child of the seventies, and my life wasn't unique. Fun show, though.
Exactly. The majority of households had their children make their own beds at the very least. Most children had multiple chores to do daily or at least weekly. The lack of delegation in households is a today problem.
In 1971 I was just a mere infant, so too young to understand or remember that period first time round. I spent my formative years during that decade and am days away from my 54th Birthday!
Clothes lasted longer in the 70's. My Marks and Sparks shirts would last at least two years worth of weekly washing before the collars were thread bare.
I know things have deffnetly changed haven't they. I was born in the early 90s my self things where cheaper but at the same time money was limited as well to be honest.
What a couple of whingers the parents are!🤣🤣🤣oh lord we loved the seventies. We loved our radios and LPs and whatever good was on tv. In Australia we were out with friends or in the backyard, we played and had our barbie dolls...it was harder for Mum, that’s true, but even she said she’d go back in a flash. I think people were more connected, really, with real conversations and an afternoon going by in a chill way. Who cared if something was tech redundant? It worked, we made do and loved it. I miss so much about the seventies! God Bless the mix tapes!
"That's only for you. How does that benefit the rest of us?" You're in 1970 now. You're MY child, living under MY roof. I own you. Until you've relocated, and are paying your own bills... go do your homework, your chores, and shut your cake hole, before I shut it FOR you. Comprender, Kemosabe? - Survivor of typical 70's-era childhood
My Dad would say, dry it up before I give you some th to cry about. He only asked you to do something once, I totally get it now. Funny, the older I got, the smarter my parents were. I wish I would have listened more to them.
@@johayes7529 Geez... sorry to hear that. However, I did neglect to mention that was the lite version. I had a stepfather who made damn sure to introduce his fist to my face. I just didn't wanna scare the kids who might be following along. Not to take away from your experience, of course. Trust me... I understand. Glad to know that you survived. Kudos.
Back in the 70's i'd be out playing with all the neighbours in our street we all knew each other ...the only time i go in was to make myself a tomato sauce sandwich or a salad cream sandwich or a bit of toast and if i did not come in before it got dark i got a smack...i remember going to the shops and buy a quarter of kopp kop for 25p.......does anyone remember a pink sweet called the fizz gong think thats what it was called only 5p.it was triangle shape.ahhhhh happy days.
In my eyes this family were quite privileged compared to the upbringing me and my parents had. My mother had a wood fired oven, no fridge, an outside toilet in the 70s that wasn't flushing until she was older. In the 90s we didn't have central heating so had to close off the uninsulated lounge room to keep warm, a TV that gave off a high pitched whistle on start up, 20 mins of hot water, a car that had to be warmed up before driving and no internet until the new millennium. We weren't poor but had to economise
Touching stuff..I recall ice inside bedroom windows. Nets - not insulating curtains! No CH. Yeh..bet today that wood fired oven would be highly desirable : D
The woman was complaining about lack of help with the household chores from the family? Is that something new? Besides, the man has to go to work and the children are too young.
They were bothered by the power cut which interrupted their television viewing! Imagine having a sack load of washing in your washing machine and the washing machine stops because of the power cuts. You may have had to wait six hours before it starts up again.
Ah. When the TV breaks down. I know that feeling. Especially in this day and age, when rarely anyone fixes them, and I have very little knowledge on how to fix them.
We must have been lucky with TVs. The first colour one possibly broke down twice in its life and one time I spent some time realigning 2 colour images over 9 areas of the picture with the third colour & refocused it. Our 2nd new colour TV still works - not failed once. Between those 2, we had perhaps 3 2nd hand ones. And 2 of those still work !
Telling a child off and explaining why you are angry is one thing. Sending them to bed with no food is another. I know it was done back then, but I was born in the 60’s and my parents never raised their voices, smacked me nor sent me to bed with no food. I tested them sometimes the same as any other child, but there was a lot of respect both ways and it worked.
Apparently I grew up in the 70's. Bath night was on Sunday, I went to bed without any tea if I did something wrong, I had a paper round, and my Mum was constantly either cleaning, cooking, or smacking me. And yet, I was born in 1987!
I can remember my gran being horrified that my dad used to hit me and my brother over the head. When he was doing it she once said "Ken stop! Don't hit them like that, hit them like this" and proceeded to whack me and my brother on the ass
@@elizabethhayward570 In the seventies, you sometimes got smacked for no good reason. People living nowadays, in the twenty-twenties, do not know how lucky they are.
We all watched Top of the Pops at the same time on a Thursday night and, unless you listened to Radio 1's top twenty before school on Tuesdays, you didn't know who was number 1!
Im Watching this Video in Year 2021 and its about a Decade since this video came out and now we have Iphones,Androids,Drones and 5G Internet! Things really change!
As an American & growing up in the 60's thru the 70's & as an adult during the 80's & 90's, we actually had more in our home than the brits had (washer & dryer, fridge with freezer & even a separate freezer, central heat /AC,...) I remember cooking during those days & not every room was that decorated with the loud wallpaper!
I did my A levels during the power outages, which meant having to study at the kitchen table, with 2 candles to provide light. Back then we all had long hair (boys and girls), and I can remember the distinct smell of burning the ends of my hair as you had to lean over to read a book with the candles as close as possible to the book. For my maths and physics A levels, the only item we had to assist in calculations, was a hand held scientific slide rule, the electronic calculator hadn't been invented yet. I still managed to get 3 A grades, and 2 B grades, which back then was considered a very good set of exam results. Keeping in mind that this was before the exams and course content were dumbed down to today's standards. I have recently looked at current A level exam papers for both maths and physics, and they are the equivalent of what we did for our O levels, which are now called GCSE'S. It's little surprise that many first year university students today, struggle to spell correctly, and have little to no knowledge of basic grammar. Progress huh?
Such a nostalgia rush, I was 16 in 1978 so I had most of my teenage years in the 70's and early 80's and I loved it, though at the time it seemed dull and boring sometimes but looking back it now seems much better than now. My head is in the present but my heart is in the 70's and 80's. The music was also ground breaking rather than the commercial tosh of today, mind you watching the reruns of the TOTP's from 76 shows that was a lot of crap music then too :-)
paulshillitomusic Hi from Russia! I was 13 years old in 1978! We grew up in different countries! In different cultures! But HOW are we similar after all - children of seventies!
Table sauce was in glass bottles in the 70's & not so easy to measure the amount that came out like with the plastic bottles depicted in the video. I remember having to wack the bottom of the bottles & thin down the contents with vinegar on a regular basis.
The seventies, beautiful music, and ugly wallpaper. A lot of smoke, people smoking inside wasn't a problem back then. Going to the café and getting home drunk was also kind of typical entertainment.
The 1970s was a great decade in which to be a kid! I was allowed to go wherever I wanted to on my bike and I didn't have to wear a stupid helmet either. Mind you, there were less cars on the road and there were no pot holes to avoid, unlike today.
Only 2 years after this was made and broadcast I went and got my drivers licence, sadly not to ride bikes as far too dangerous now with the state of the roads aswell as there being idiots out alongside those who are sensible.
I had a pressure cooker until. I recently replaced it with one of the modern Pressure king Pro’s. Brilliant help as I now work longer hours and want meals quickly with more ease.
The family did not make the programme. They are only participating in it, just like actors acting in a film, so there is no need to call them drippy. Blame the technology of the time, not the family.
The scene with the kids riding bikes around the 33:00 to 34:00 mark was not realistic. Any kid wearing a helmet would be considered "the special" kid who road the "short bus" to school with mental issues. No one wore helmets while riding bikes back then. I am not intentionally being rude or inappropriate, that is just the way it was back then. The idea of wearing a helmet while riding a bike wasn't even considered. Across the board, freezers, coloured TV's & many other items, seemed to be far behind in Britain compared to Canada & the USA in terms of when they were in wide use. Most of these things were popular if not common in the early to mid 70's at the latest in North America. Some even in the 60's ie: freezers.
I was born in 1969 always remember having a fridge and chest freezer and an automatic washing machinewhen I was younger. The first timestamp the kids weren't wearing helmets but they weren't also riding the bikes. The second timestamp you showed was probably health and safety rules we have here in England. When I was a kid, no one wore a helmet on a bike. I do remember quite clearly in the 70's my mother getting a colour TV. Generally though I don't think we were too far behind for consumer goods. Infact we were miles ahead for home computers, it was Acorn and Sinclair brought computers out of the labs and business offices into the home.
I wonder if this is why depression is getting worse in the world, because back in the day everyone was so busy. No time to think and get depressed lol.
You also didnt have media constantly jamming down peoples throats the bad in the world, which does not effect you in your day to day norr can they so anything about it, but people let it depress them. And they were told nonstop that they have something they should be offended at. People had real conversations and interactions with people instead of social media. Life may had been a little harder, but people were overall happier.
It's ironic that kids today can call someone at the least danger, yet the parents are fearful or paranoid about them being gone 30 minutes. In the 1970s there was nothing, and parents felt their kids were safer. What happened? Did the media make us paranoid?
You’re absolutely correct. The media has caused this stranger danger paranoia when studies have shown it’s safer now than it was in the 70s when we could go anywhere we wanted on our own. As a child of the 70s it taught me about the world and made me more responsible. Nowadays it’s helicopter parenting and wrap the kids in cotton wool.
What was the obsession of making a pudding??? We never had pudding?? We just ate dinner which comprised mostly of sausage egg beans and chips every day. And to this day is still a favourite.
[Godson] I remember seeing this during BBC4's technology season. Bit of a daft suggestion considering the budget and synchronisation factor, but I thought to make it a more practical and engaging experiment, it could've been extended to a year per week instead of each year per day. Really fascinating programme. Cool décor and vintage gadgets they found too.
I was 15 when I go my first cell phone, - no texting back in the 90's-, I remwber it being a flip phone. I still remember having my mom's old cell phone. I remeber playing Atiria at my grandparents house.
9:25 Wardrobe - yep, got one in my bedroom - 4 draws, drop down leaf, 2 slide glass mirrors and full height wardrobe - but mine's monochrome wood - all the same colour !
Wow, what a trip! I lived in the seventies, but I don't remember much about the decorating because we lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, so there wasn't much decorating you could do; and I vaguely remember our apartment in the Bronx because I didn't pay much attention to that stuff then as I do now except for what I saw on television. But I love these type of shows, and I'm sure they'll be whining and grumbling before its over!
God! If the seventies was this primitive, I shudder to think what the fifties and sixties were like. No wonder most of those rock stars and celebrities were so screwed up and concerned about money!
The decade I missed out on because I wasn't even born then but from what I know, the UK suffered the worst summer drout in 1976, Bee Gees, ABBA, Earth Wind & Fire, etc were hitting the charts. I'm surprised that the old 8-Track cassettes were not mentioned as they were competing with the standard cassette that won over (Only to start phasing out in the late 90s).
The kids should have the record player. I had a record player and my parents had one downstairs. There would have been reel to reel tapes, which my friend had. The teasmaid thing was a bit bizarre but my parents loved theirs. I remember getting dressed in the little space at the side of the hot water tank in the airing cupboard. This is bringing back so many memories. Glad we've moved on
Take me back to the 70's and 80's I wanna do it all over again... and I want my dad back there with me too.
I’ll echo those sentiments. I loved the seventies. Didn’t have much time for tv, too busy playing outside!
@@ajpadgett2301 Yes at the time we were happy with what we had, life was basic and simple.
Me too!
Oh I want it too
@@garycooper9207 One day a time machine will probably be invented so we can go back for a weekend.
The technology my parents valued most when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s was two legs and about 2000 books. The world was my playground and books were my universe.
going to the book store at the good mall was a real treat
Book reading doesn't make for good TV though
I watched this on TV more than 10 years ago. I was so fascinated and I wanted to experience it myself.
What a great TV show, even the theme song is awesome! I watched it with my young kids, they loved seeing how things were when I was a little kid - well done BBC! cheers from Canada.
I was 11 in 1970, so I remember the early 70s very well. The biggest changes between then and now are family meals and the communal TV watching in the living room. As homes were not as warm, comfortable and full of entertainment as they are now, children played outside if the weather allowed. I remember that adults encouraged children to 'go out and play' because they felt that it was unhealthy to stay indoors all the time and, of course, they wanted some peace and quiet. The power-cuts in 1973 went on for weeks, but were not as sudden as the programme showed. Every evening, just after 7pm, the lights flicked off and on for a second, which was the signal from the electricity company that we had 20 minutes or so to get the candles ready. The power would then be off until early the next morning. These days even the momentary flicking of the lights would play havoc with all the electronic devices and timers we have now.
The power cuts indeed, but at least we could smoke and drink to our liking and that always solves everything 😉🚬
In the 70's... If you missed any of the classic holiday specials... you WILL wait an entire year to see them again.
"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
Oh man the 70's.....where did it all go......
I've had dreams of living during these times..
The beautiful music, the vibes, the magic of not being saturated with unnecessary technology.....*sigh*
Exquisite idea for a documentary:)
I rather live in the 2020s, which we are almost in as of right now.
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i know what you mean , I crave to go back to the 1970's today,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RIGHT NOW, I'M Prepaired to Leave now, October 2021, I Dispised to 21,st centry, I heat It,?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,. Anybody freel the same, way, ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????,.
The 70s were brilliant, i was 10 in 74 living in Paddington maybe i'm seeing it different but it really was a carefree time.
I was a teenager growing up in the 70s these were the best years of my life, as a family we sat around the big wooden framed colour tv watching variety tv shows and of course top of the pops glam rock . I think petrol was around 60-80pence a gallon, tudor crisps were 2 pence a bag, sweets shops had jars of sweets on the shelves at 5pence for a quarter, christmas time was so special for me in the 70s, plus all my family & relations were living in the 70s and have now sadly passed away........... Give me back the 1970s
No central heating, fire place in living room and calor gas on landing. One shared bathroom (personally now still, no change). As a child reading books in bed (no tv in bedroom). Parents come and turn out lights (torch out). Walking to school, playing outside (safer then in numbers and every parent kind of knew each other). I was so excited one birthday when I got a tape cassette player for my birthday (with 3 blank cassettes). Set ready by TV waiting for TOTP to come on.
Meals at the table together at a timely manner. One mistake was making freezers bigger. Convenience food shopping of quick cook, processed meals.
There was routine in life, children had their boundaries in place (be home by time, bed by time).
I am proud to be 70's/80's child
hear hear to that
I absolutely agree with everything you said. I was always outside with my friends. On Holiday’s you would spend time with the family then it was outside with all your mates for a game of football or riding bikes and skateboards all over the place.
We had central heating in America since 1816! How is it possible that England didn't have the same?
my parents grew up in the 70s in communist Poland. The flats might've been small but centrally heated and my mother's parents managed to get their hands on an automatic washing machine sometime around 1973 after a train wagon of domestic appliances was accidentally sent to my grandfathers workplace.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 For me, the seventies were not that liberating.
I was in secondary school from 1971 to 1976. There was a verge of grass on which we sat in summer or whenever the weather was fine. A teacher soon put paid to that by saying that it was unsafe. To this day, I do not know why.
I remember moving in to a new house with my mum and dad in 1990. It was built in 1975 and had not been touched since then. The previous owner bought it off plan, decorated it in 1975 and it was like stepping in to a time warp by 1990. I loved it. Although it did have two bathrooms, large open rooms with a big open arch between the lounge/dining room and full length windows in the lounge/dining room. Electric storage heating though. A blue bathroom suite and some crazy carpets haha.
Why does America not do these shows? I find this fascinating!! Thank you BBC!!
stabnshoot clues in the name Britain"s got talent
The BBC has a much bigger budget.
I agree . I wish they would , but it would be even better if they did it in the summer time .
Because the producers know that the people (who would suffer that nightmare)
would eventually file suit for being subjected to cruel & unusual treatment.
No millennial could withstand the shock of 70's, 80's & 90's tech.
@@Seemsayin
Millenials were born in the 80s and 90s.
They're all adults.
Yes to the previous comment 👍 one thing they have missed is that the lady of the house had a glass of wine in her hand ! Wine was a pure luxury back then & even then would be a bottle of blue nun on a special occasion!!!!!!
I remember watching this series back in the day, great to see it again!
Wonderful! The kids would have enjoyed it more with a massive gang of neighbourhood kids. That's what was missing.
That’s a good point. Back in the 70s the kids wouldn’t have been bored as they would’ve been out with their friends cycling around and and playing.
We weren't allowed in the house until dinner unless the weather was so bad we were in danger of being killed. After dinner we went right back out that door. It was so hot in the house we didn't want to be in there in the summer anyway.
These days we have 'playlists' rather than 'mix tapes'... (1972)
Those mixed tapes took a hell of a lot of time & skill to get right...Then the car cassette deck would eat the thing...The tears & tantrums I had over a shreaded cassettes in my car was absolutely stupid..I love my play lists...No scratced record's or CDs is brilliant..
Decks and tapes aren't virtually extinct. Just go in the majority of the homes of the over 80s in the British middle class.
I admire Hamish for going into town. He left a note, bless him.
I rarely told my family where i was.
My son (in the 1980s), when he was about 11, decided he's had enoughof shopping in town with us, so I gave him the money to get the train home.
He rolled in several hours after, having got on the wrong train and having to use his ingenuity to get back home.
Surprisingly, I wasn't worried.
I am a Canadian with too many thoughts in my head, but this is one of many time travel docs I've watched from the UK and love them. Too bad there aren't any resorts with cottages set in different eras for everyone to enjoy.🇨🇦
Canadian too! Blown away at 12:09 when the narrator says half of British homes didn't have a phone line in 1970! WTH? I was born in 1964 and was from a very modest family in Ontario, but I remember from the earliest age we always had a phone (rotary dial wall-mounted) and all my parents' friends and people we knew had phones too. Britain seemed to be way behind even then.
@@frankbray9416 Thanks for your reply, stay Covid safe.😷
@@jamiemacdonald9085 what a great idea (the era cottages)!
Fellow Canadian :D
@@jamiemacdonald9085
That's an amazing business model!
Oh wow...talk about a blast from the past! This is great!
The excitement when my father said he had managed to buy a box of candles from the newsagent, just in case the electricity was switched off. Failing that we huddled around the cooker gas rings for some light and heat. I can see us there now.
I was pretty young in the seventies, but didn't they have flashlights with big batteries?
@@patrickverlinden71 Candles cheap and lasted longer. Be lucky to get 1 hour out of a flashlight back then.
@@flybobbie1449 Candles were a far bigger fire risk.
1970s - If I missed something on the TV, I wouldn't be able to 'catch up'!
Daniel Davies, then along came the big ol bricks known as VHS, and you could record them.
Right you knew to be in front of that TV and quiet before the show started.
You could read the plot in TV guide
Not to worry. There were always summer reruns.
funny thing is, is that is how I was brought up in the late 90s and 2000s, no computer until I was 12 (2007), no central heating, no automatic washing machine, spin dryer and a sink. the cooker I still use looks very similar to there one. no dishwasher, electric emission heater for hot water. no sky TV only had the 4 channels. didn't have a CD player till 2007, welli had a small portable one but are 'hifi' was a 1980s stack system with twin cassest decks. and even to this day i still have no internet connection at home apart from the 3G on my phone!! so I do think that family is a load of wimps.
What does an "electric emission heater" emit? Sparks?
Were your parents amish or something
We'll all come and visit you. Sorry, was it Broadmoor or Wormwood Scrubbs?
Are your family on the dole?
You were either a tribesman in the jungle or just piss poor.
I loved the 70’s and 80’s
Take me to the 70s. Take me to the last fully decent decade. Take me back.
Mum sent Hamish to bed with no supper, but told him to have a bath first. Bath night was on a Sunday in the 70s as I remember.
julie Wallis - we showered daily in the 70s
@@rosemaryangela1825 NOT IN THE UK SURLEY ?
Once a week. Shared water.
No on your birthday.
Yep, Sunday was bath night for the kids.
It's kind of baffling that some day someone will look at the decade in which I'm growing up the same way I look at the 70s.
Yes you are right, people from 2040 will look back on 2000 as very old fashioned and having very basic technology.
No it's got no style today just computers and phones that's all and covid.
@@loannaxxx8845 Probably be major changes in the next 20 years with robots, AI, flying cars etc.
The man in the factory needs a good haircut.
@@loannaxxx8845 I love the 2020's.
Nothing will ever be as good. We've been on a downward slide for the last 50 years...wish I could go back.
Nearest thing could be simulated Ai 70s you could go in.
I was born in 1958, I remember a lot of this
70s kid here. Such nostalgia.
I was born in '78. I do remember record players, playing outside with no cell phones & just being a kid. I live in the U.S. i do remember being the remote control for my nana's tv. I love the Polaroid camera. Instant pictures. I played with my nana's Polaroid
Thanks for sharing all three shows. It was nice to see the family gained something from the experience.
The average family in the UK in 1969 still used sheets and blankets. Duvets were an expensive luxury. If the family didn't have central heating, them it's almost certain they didn't have duvets either! We kept warm at night with flannelette sheets!
Flannalette sheets. Forgot about those. 🙂
Mum would give our sheets a quick going over with her electric iron. We were thrilled since the upstairs was a deep freeze at night. No, we didn't have duvets.
@@Miniver765 excellent idea 😁
My dad made a frame thing that had a light bulb attached to it, that went under the sheet. Surprisingly warm bed to get into.
We got a brick out of the fire, wrapped in a towel at my grandparents' house.
Didn't get a duvet until I was married in the '80s. It was a wedding present, come to think of it.
@@nicolarollinson4381 Oh yes, Mum was quite clever in her way. With Dad gone for work most of the time, she had to be. LOL, as ours was such an old house, each room had only one, certainly no more than two, electric points. My brother and I would push our beds nearest those at the start of cold weather, and back next the window come spring.
I don't recall anyone mentioning anything about duvets until the 80's. If you had one you were looked on as well posh.
Well done for your Dad on that ingenious invention of his!
@@Miniver765 continental quilt 😁
Wonderful nostalgia!
Imagine being able to adjust your tv settings just by turning a knob, now it takes me about 10 touches on a remote control to reset contrast, brightness and colour.
When you think about it, in the 2040s and 2050s they're gonna do the same with us.
Obviously. Hopefully we will have Aquatic highways and underground "Earthscrapers" built soon (We are almost in the 2020s, which is daunting for me to think about, since my childhood was in the 2000s)
Wait a minute. In 1971 the mother is making the children's beds and complaining that no one in the family has offered to help with the chores? I was making my own bed at 6 and helping with other household chores. My parents didn't wait for me to offer. I was told to help. Or else. I was a child of the seventies, and my life wasn't unique. Fun show, though.
You did what girls did - that's why you were making beds at 6 ! Being lads, we rarely did chores - main one being washing up.
@@millomwebI used to go out for a smoke when the pots needed washing.
Exactly. The majority of households had their children make their own beds at the very least. Most children had multiple chores to do daily or at least weekly. The lack of delegation in households is a today problem.
@@millomweb many households had their sons also do chores.
In 1971 I was just a mere infant, so too young to understand or remember that period first time round. I spent my formative years during that decade and am days away from my 54th Birthday!
Wonderful, nostalgic, & enlightening series. Thank you BBC!
Thanks for uploading in one big chunk! Makes watching so much easier :) Great series!
This is cool. I would instantly join them
my parents was younger they love playing old music in the 70s
Mine too
Clothes lasted longer in the 70's. My Marks and Sparks shirts would last at least two years worth of weekly washing before the collars were thread bare.
i randomly saw this program on bbc four at 2 in the morning glad i found it again
Just finished watching - at 2:52 am !
It's 2017 and 2009 seems kinda far away now. Now we have virtual reality at home.
It’s gone shitty
I don’t.
That VR where it creates a home..when reality is a cardboard box in the high street. Drugs not included, that’s extra.
2021 and things are bleak af.
@@kuchikopi4631 They were worse in the 1970's. No technology, no nothing.
I was growing up in the 1990s... God knows how things have changed since then!
I know things have deffnetly changed haven't they. I was born in the early 90s my self things where cheaper but at the same time money was limited as well to be honest.
What a couple of whingers the parents are!🤣🤣🤣oh lord we loved the seventies. We loved our radios and LPs and whatever good was on tv. In Australia we were out with friends or in the backyard, we played and had our barbie dolls...it was harder for Mum, that’s true, but even she said she’d go back in a flash. I think people were more connected, really, with real conversations and an afternoon going by in a chill way. Who cared if something was tech redundant? It worked, we made do and loved it. I miss so much about the seventies! God Bless the mix tapes!
Living in 2020 right now, watching their current year (2009) is quite nostalgic. I haven't see any kids playing wii anymore.
I was still working in 2009, though I wouldn't exactly want to go back to it!
"That's only for you. How does that benefit the rest of us?"
You're in 1970 now. You're MY child, living under MY roof. I own you. Until you've relocated, and are paying your own bills...
go do your homework, your chores, and shut your cake hole, before I shut it FOR you. Comprender, Kemosabe?
- Survivor of typical 70's-era childhood
My dad used to say shut your cake hole made me laugh.
@@elizabethhayward570 STILL makes me laugh, Liz.
My Dad would say, dry it up before I give you some th to cry about. He only asked you to do something once, I totally get it now. Funny, the older I got, the smarter my parents were. I wish I would have listened more to them.
God your parent's were sweet...Mine didn't explain anything..It was all straps & swearing at our place.
@@johayes7529 Geez... sorry to hear that. However, I did neglect to mention that was the lite version. I had a stepfather who made damn sure to introduce his fist to my face. I just didn't wanna scare the kids who might be following along. Not to take away from your experience, of course. Trust me... I understand. Glad to know that you survived. Kudos.
Back in the 70's i'd be out playing with all the neighbours in our street we all knew each other ...the only time i go in was to make myself a tomato sauce sandwich or a salad cream sandwich or a bit of toast and if i did not come in before it got dark i got a smack...i remember going to the shops and buy a quarter of kopp kop for 25p.......does anyone remember a pink sweet called the fizz gong think thats what it was called only 5p.it was triangle shape.ahhhhh happy days.
Love this show! Thank you so much for sharing it.
In my eyes this family were quite privileged compared to the upbringing me and my parents had. My mother had a wood fired oven, no fridge, an outside toilet in the 70s that wasn't flushing until she was older.
In the 90s we didn't have central heating so had to close off the uninsulated lounge room to keep warm, a TV that gave off a high pitched whistle on start up, 20 mins of hot water, a car that had to be warmed up before driving and no internet until the new millennium.
We weren't poor but had to economise
Touching stuff..I recall ice inside bedroom windows. Nets - not insulating curtains! No CH. Yeh..bet today that wood fired oven would be highly desirable : D
We have an outside loo. More reliable than the indoor one !
No freezers in 1970? Shocking! How did you keep your ice-cream?
The woman was complaining about lack of help with the household chores from the family? Is that something new? Besides, the man has to go to work and the children are too young.
They were bothered by the power cut which interrupted their television viewing! Imagine having a sack load of washing in your washing machine and the washing machine stops because of the power cuts. You may have had to wait six hours before it starts up again.
i loved watching this all three documentaries. so wonderfully well put together.
Ah. When the TV breaks down. I know that feeling. Especially in this day and age, when rarely anyone fixes them, and I have very little knowledge on how to fix them.
We must have been lucky with TVs. The first colour one possibly broke down twice in its life and one time I spent some time realigning 2 colour images over 9 areas of the picture with the third colour & refocused it. Our 2nd new colour TV still works - not failed once. Between those 2, we had perhaps 3 2nd hand ones. And 2 of those still work !
Those old TVs were easy to fix.
Telling a child off and explaining why you are angry is one thing. Sending them to bed with no food is another. I know it was done back then, but I was born in the 60’s and my parents never raised their voices, smacked me nor sent me to bed with no food. I tested them sometimes the same as any other child, but there was a lot of respect both ways and it worked.
Apparently I grew up in the 70's. Bath night was on Sunday, I went to bed without any tea if I did something wrong, I had a paper round, and my Mum was constantly either cleaning, cooking, or smacking me. And yet, I was born in 1987!
I can remember my gran being horrified that my dad used to hit me and my brother over the head. When he was doing it she once said "Ken stop! Don't hit them like that, hit them like this" and proceeded to whack me and my brother on the ass
🤣🤣🤣 both these comments got me 👌🤣🤣🤣
Human nature does not change that much, Joseph.
"In the 1970's, you probably would have got smacked."
Not "probably".
With my mum there was no probably about it.
@@elizabethhayward570 In the seventies, you sometimes got smacked for no good reason.
People living nowadays, in the twenty-twenties, do not know how lucky they are.
The 70's were AWESOME.
We all watched Top of the Pops at the same time on a Thursday night and, unless you listened to Radio 1's top twenty before school on Tuesdays, you didn't know who was number 1!
I just recalled driving bike with football under one arm...
This is absolutely fantastic. I absolutely loved it.
Hamish in that rayon print shirt IS the 70s. Kid's got the groove. (I was his age then; all my school chums looked exactly like that.)
My dad's chest freezer was purchased n 1979 and still works today! Now appliances are programmed to self destruct and become obslete
I left school aged 16 in 1976! This takes me back...!
And what a fantastic summer it was!
@@jasonburns4071 Ha Ha! Bloody lovely!
@@jasonburns4071 Yes, HOT! I remember taking my GCE's in the hall and MELTING!
So glad I was born in 72, best time to be alive, only thing I would change is being born a decade earlier ❤
Im Watching this Video in Year 2021 and its about a Decade since this video came out and now we have Iphones,Androids,Drones and 5G Internet! Things really change!
Great experiment, love how the children seemed to adapt better than the parents!
That's always the case in these type of shows!
As an American & growing up in the 60's thru the 70's & as an adult during the 80's & 90's, we actually had more in our home than the brits had (washer & dryer, fridge with freezer & even a separate freezer, central heat /AC,...)
I remember cooking during those days & not every room was that decorated with the loud wallpaper!
I did my A levels during the power outages, which meant having to study at the kitchen table, with 2 candles to provide light. Back then we all had long hair (boys and girls), and I can remember the distinct smell of burning the ends of my hair as you had to lean over to read a book with the candles as close as possible to the book. For my maths and physics A levels, the only item we had to assist in calculations, was a hand held scientific slide rule, the electronic calculator hadn't been invented yet. I still managed to get 3 A grades, and 2 B grades, which back then was considered a very good set of exam results. Keeping in mind that this was before the exams and course content were dumbed down to today's standards. I have recently looked at current A level exam papers for both maths and physics, and they are the equivalent of what we did for our O levels, which are now called GCSE'S. It's little surprise that many first year university students today, struggle to spell correctly, and have little to no knowledge of basic grammar. Progress huh?
I love how detailed they got with this. I can’t wait to show this show to my boyfriend!
Lol yeah I am 40 and I remember people always making excuses not to look at holiday pictures 😁
I watched this in school in 2017 in ela class we watched all of the decades such good memories
Such a nostalgia rush, I was 16 in 1978 so I had most of my teenage years in the 70's and early 80's and I loved it, though at the time it seemed dull and boring sometimes but looking back it now seems much better than now. My head is in the present but my heart is in the 70's and 80's. The music was also ground breaking rather than the commercial tosh of today, mind you watching the reruns of the TOTP's from 76 shows that was a lot of crap music then too :-)
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Hi from Russia! I was 13 years old in 1978! We grew up in different countries! In different cultures! But HOW are we similar after all - children of seventies!
@@strannik053 Yes life must have been pretty basic for you as well in those days.
@@VincentRE79 Life was definitely easier and people were kinder!
@@strannik053 Has life changed that much in Russia like the UK?
@@strannik053 It'd be interesting comparing what you had with what you saw in this programme.
I lived through the 70s, so this looks so familiar.
Table sauce was in glass bottles in the 70's & not so easy to measure the amount that came out like with the plastic bottles depicted in the video. I remember having to wack the bottom of the bottles & thin down the contents with vinegar on a regular basis.
I lived through all this...and the 60s...and the 50s...but it just seemed normal at the time. I always say: ' Everything is of its time...'
The seventies, beautiful music, and ugly wallpaper. A lot of smoke, people smoking inside wasn't a problem back then. Going to the café and getting home drunk was also kind of typical entertainment.
Thank you for uploading it.
Subbed; just seen a 2 minute clip a few minutes ago, so search full episodes. Thanks for the uploads mate!!
The 1970s was a great decade in which to be a kid! I was allowed to go wherever I wanted to on my bike and I didn't have to wear a stupid helmet either. Mind you, there were less cars on the road and there were no pot holes to avoid, unlike today.
Only 2 years after this was made and broadcast I went and got my drivers licence, sadly not to ride bikes as far too dangerous now with the state of the roads aswell as there being idiots out alongside those who are sensible.
I know, I'm 25 and don't drive, too many idiots and egomaniacs on the roads and naive striving younger folks in a hurry to get nowhere ...
god our house still has a pressure cooker and coal/gas fires. this family are a bit drippy, aren't they? lol
My mum had a pressure cooker we thought it was great!
I thought that, when she was in the kitchen saying how did people cope! Not exactly the dark ages lol
I don't have central heating a dishwasher or a clothes dryer in 2021. And we didn't get color TV until 83 lol
I had a pressure cooker until. I recently replaced it with one of the modern Pressure king Pro’s. Brilliant help as I now work longer hours and want meals quickly with more ease.
The family did not make the programme. They are only participating in it, just like actors acting in a film, so there is no need to call them drippy. Blame the technology of the time, not the family.
LOVED it ! Best one
The scene with the kids riding bikes around the 33:00 to 34:00 mark was not realistic. Any kid wearing a helmet would be considered "the special" kid who road the "short bus" to school with mental issues. No one wore helmets while riding bikes back then.
I am not intentionally being rude or inappropriate, that is just the way it was back then. The idea of wearing a helmet while riding a bike wasn't even considered.
Across the board, freezers, coloured TV's & many other items, seemed to be far behind in Britain compared to Canada & the USA in terms of when they were in wide use. Most of these things were popular if not common in the early to mid 70's at the latest in North America. Some even in the 60's ie: freezers.
I was born in 1969 always remember having a fridge and chest freezer and an automatic washing machinewhen I was younger. The first timestamp the kids weren't wearing helmets but they weren't also riding the bikes. The second timestamp you showed was probably health and safety rules we have here in England. When I was a kid, no one wore a helmet on a bike. I do remember quite clearly in the 70's my mother getting a colour TV. Generally though I don't think we were too far behind for consumer goods. Infact we were miles ahead for home computers, it was Acorn and Sinclair brought computers out of the labs and business offices into the home.
Agreed, you would have been laughed at if you wore a helmet in the 70s.
And that's motorbikes you're talking about :)
We didnt have a tv for a few years in the 70s,they were very expensive , so we played radio and outside all the time
Born on october 1st -79 so just managed to get a glimpse of the 70`s.
I so would have gone to town on the Chopper as well! nice one son 😆👍
I was a child in the 70s. There was plenty to do outside!
I wonder if this is why depression is getting worse in the world, because back in the day everyone was so busy. No time to think and get depressed lol.
You also didnt have media constantly jamming down peoples throats the bad in the world, which does not effect you in your day to day norr can they so anything about it, but people let it depress them. And they were told nonstop that they have something they should be offended at. People had real conversations and interactions with people instead of social media. Life may had been a little harder, but people were overall happier.
It's ironic that kids today can call someone at the least danger, yet the parents are fearful or paranoid about them being gone 30 minutes. In the 1970s there was nothing, and parents felt their kids were safer. What happened? Did the media make us paranoid?
You’re absolutely correct. The media has caused this stranger danger paranoia when studies have shown it’s safer now than it was in the 70s when we could go anywhere we wanted on our own. As a child of the 70s it taught me about the world and made me more responsible. Nowadays it’s helicopter parenting and wrap the kids in cotton wool.
The last real decade where people, especially children had the opportunity of free thinking without the influences of electronic data devices.
Right on.
Great stuff. My mother had a twin tub washing machine. Adam looks a bit like David Bowie.
What was the obsession of making a pudding??? We never had pudding?? We just ate dinner which comprised mostly of sausage egg beans and chips every day. And to this day is still a favourite.
Find the power cuts were hilarious, living in South africa for the last 15 years it's amazing how people adapt. Candle light dinners albeit cold 😂😂😂
[Godson] I remember seeing this during BBC4's technology season.
Bit of a daft suggestion considering the budget and synchronisation factor, but I thought to make it a more practical and engaging experiment, it could've been extended to a year per week instead of each year per day.
Really fascinating programme. Cool décor and vintage gadgets they found too.
I was 15 when I go my first cell phone,
- no texting back in the 90's-, I remwber it being a flip phone. I still remember having my mom's old cell phone. I remeber playing Atiria at my grandparents house.
Love the decor
9:25 Wardrobe - yep, got one in my bedroom - 4 draws, drop down leaf, 2 slide glass mirrors and full height wardrobe - but mine's monochrome wood - all the same colour !
Wow, what a trip! I lived in the seventies, but I don't remember much about the decorating because we lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, so there wasn't much decorating you could do; and I vaguely remember our apartment in the Bronx because I didn't pay much attention to that stuff then as I do now except for what I saw on television. But I love these type of shows, and I'm sure they'll be whining and grumbling before its over!
And how dated does the “present” look now 🤣🤣
God! If the seventies was this primitive, I shudder to think what the fifties and sixties were like. No wonder most of those rock stars and celebrities were so screwed up and concerned about money!
The decade I missed out on because I wasn't even born then but from what I know, the UK suffered the worst summer drout in 1976, Bee Gees, ABBA, Earth Wind & Fire, etc were hitting the charts. I'm surprised that the old 8-Track cassettes were not mentioned as they were competing with the standard cassette that won over (Only to start phasing out in the late 90s).
The kids should have the record player. I had a record player and my parents had one downstairs.
There would have been reel to reel tapes, which my friend had.
The teasmaid thing was a bit bizarre but my parents loved theirs.
I remember getting dressed in the little space at the side of the hot water tank in the airing cupboard.
This is bringing back so many memories. Glad we've moved on
You Brits are so creative. This is brilliant.
In those day's family were more together and much more respect than today in day or we were more ignorant and more happy
That 70s music is right on!!!! ✌🏼
And all of those groups were still popular. Now they're virtually unheard of!
I still use the ENIAC for computing. It basically fills my whole house. It makes me feel very nostalgic for the flashing forties!