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Back in Time for the Weekend
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Show Back in Time for the Weekend

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Original run: 02.02.2016 — 08.03.2016
Country of origin: UK
Genre: History
Network: BBC Two
Watched by: 14 860 472
Total running time: 4 hours 18 minutes
Episode duration: 43 min.
Episodes count: 6
IMDB rating: 7.2 of 10 76
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Like many modern families, the Ashby Hawkins home is stuffed full of tablets, computers, phones, and gadgets to distract them in their spare time. But for one summer they agreed to give up all their 21st century technology and travel back in time, to experience the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950.

The family's own home becomes their time machine as they are transported back to a different decade each week. Guided by presenters Giles Coren and social historian Polly Russell, the family's entire experience is underpinned by The Family Expenditure Survey, a government study which ran from the 50s right through to 1999. The survey's detailed spending records give us the best possible clue as to what families were doing with their leisure time across the five decades.

Titles and release dates

6
The Future
08.03.2016
5
The 90s
01.03.2016
4
The 80s
23.02.2016
3
The 70s
16.02.2016
2
The 60s
09.02.2016
1
The 50s
02.02.2016
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