Anyone watching this. Oh my god - it's like being a teenager again, living with my mum & dad. The horrible wallpaper and floor coverings. The twin tub and the pressure cooker !!!!

Probably doesn't work for anyone under 40 but remember kids, what you're up to now will look so old fashioned in 2040

Anyone watching this. Oh my god - it's like being a teenager again, living with my mum & dad. The horrible wallpaper and floor coverings. The twin tub and the pressure cooker !!!!

Probably doesn't work for anyone under 40 but remember kids, what you're up to now will look so old fashioned in 2040

i loved watching this programme. It made me feel so nostalgic !!I am looking forward to watching next weeks show. I am unsure why they have a 90's show though as tbh its not gonna be all that much different from the 00's

It was a bit of a nostalgia fest wasn't it.

I was amused by the teenage son being so bored he volunteered to do some housework! I wonder if that will give ideas to anyone. :hihi:

It was quite an interesting show and brought back some memories, especially the calculator bit spelling out naughty words.

What ruined it slightly was the continuity wasn't 100%.

The program explained that to make it more authentic the central heating was switched off......yet the very next shot showed the exterior of the house and the bedroom window.......a very modern double glazed window:!:

I've been raving about this since i stumbled upon it on Thursday night. Absolutely brilliant, did make me feel so pleased and how much life has changed! :D
We must have been the halves that didn't have things... I distinctly remember the twin tub (my gran still has her mangle in an outhouse) the music centre that my gran insisted on keeping for years, she STILL has the seventies carpet (apparently it was expensive!) We didn't have central heating until 1980 - I remember them knocking the rooms through and I remember getting my first calculator about 1979. Don't know why this isn't on prime time tv - it's the best thing i've watched in ages!!! Iplayer it now!!!!
My mum still occasionally uses a pressure cooker for stew!
Oh and my gran, despite having a vax and a dyson, keeps the old 1970's hoover upstairs and prefers it as it's lighter!
When they were searching for stuff, they'd obviously not bothered phoning my gran!

I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the programme on Thursday about Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry.

It was quite an interesting show and brought back some memories, especially the calculator bit spelling out naughty words.

What ruined it slightly was the continuity wasn't 100%.

The program explained that to make it more authentic the central heating was switched off......yet the very next shot showed the exterior of the house and the bedroom window.......a very modern double glazed window:!:

Well, I doubt very much that they'd be daft enough to rip out the double-glazed windows to re-install single-glazed. But yes, I watched the programme, and thought "They are going to be a bit warmer in there, with their double-glazed windows, than if they'd had single-glazed.

For me, the continuity bloopers were things like showing the father sweeping the thick snow off their Cortina (car) yet shots showed the snow still there.

I found the programme interesting, as I'm a Forty-something and I remember many of the gadgets (like the pressure cooker and the twin tub washer) and was in tucks of laughter remembering how "state of the art" the Pong video game was, and the "event" that was my parents buying their Pye Music centre (stereo/ hifi) whatnot. (I remember we kids were absolutely forbidden, on pain of death, to place even one finger on the thing, let alone play any music on it!)

I suspect that the mother had overloaded the Twin-tub washer, if she was getting the "electrical smells". The laundry seemed in one huge clump rather than flowing freely through the suds-y water. the other error I noticed was that
1) she put the clothing in before the water, and 2) she set up the water heater after the clothes were in there, Both of which weren't really the most efficient ways of making the best use of the machine.

Water and soap in before the clothing so the soap mixed properly, (and rinsed better) and if you "had" to use the heater, (if you didn't fill it from the hot-tap) it was better to get it to temperature before the clothes went in.

As for the pressure cooker, they weren't too bad for cooking things like stews and steaming puddings in a hurry, and they weren't too dangerous (like anything) if used correctly.

Thanks for the heads up, I just caught it on iplayer. Brilliant, such memories, I had a chopper and loved it so much, and we had one of those awful radio grams in a sideboard with the record player and radio :hihi:

I remember being a little girl and the candle lit evenings when we had a power cut and thinking it was such fun.

Regarding no central heating, we didn't have duvets either, it was a ton of blankets weighing us down in bed and waking to frost on the inside of the windows.

80's should be fun next time.

Did anyone else notice Sheffield's very own Postman Pat/Peter Crouch love child Tom Wrigglesworth as one of the techy bods (he was the one buying the tape deck off eBay). Glad to see he's getting into TV, seen him a few times at The Lescar and he's very good.

I thought this was excellent
The twin tub washer.....we had the exact same one, like they said on the programme it was a two hour event just to do the washing....poor mum

mind you can you imagine the same programme in the 70's going back to the 40's and 50's our parents would be thinking god how did they cope without twin tubs, record players, fridges etc...I would love to see the same programme in 30 years time

Well, I doubt very much that they'd be daft enough to rip out the double-glazed windows to re-install single-glazed. But yes, I watched the programme, and thought "They are going to be a bit warmer in there, with their double-glazed windows, than if they'd had single-glazed.

Yes that may have been a step too far, but then again they did put up walls to make the house more authentic for the family.

The point though was that the camera focused close up, and through the modern double glazed window, just moments after the family were told that their central heating was going to be switched off to make things more authentic of the 70's era.
What I meant by continuity is that had someone on the BBC continuity team checked the program properly, they would have edited the double glazing window shot out of the program altogether.

I thought this week's episode was great!

Love the tall tech guy remarking to the mum and dad about some technical problem "Well it means nothing to me" (I had a feeling Vienna had something to do with things!)

Moments later 2 members of Ultravox visted the family's house much to the delight of mum and dad....although the kids didn't have clue who they were!

Then you had one of the daughters trying to force a Betamax video tape into a VHS recorder!:hihi:

Loved, loved, loved last night's programme!
I remember sulking that i had to have a telly for christmas and wait until my birthday for my Zx spectrum (wasn't allowed to have it the other way around) - gosh didn't realise they were all so relatively expensive!
I was addicted to the handheld games as well. We used to take them all round to someone's house and then swap them.
Glad they showed manic miner... Was chuckling to myself about Hamish programming the Acorn and remember doing that myself - spending about an hour typing in rubbish from a magazine for it to say syntax error? :hihi:
Remember using those at school I'd still have had the spectrum - but the commodore 64 was great too! Surprised they didn't show an Atari in the really early 80s as that was what everyone wanted then!
So much changed in that decade! I remembered getting all of the gadgets mentioned (apart from a C5 even though i begged and pleaded for one!) - my family got a video camera for the birth of my sister - then my mum did the usual taping corrie over the tape!
However it also made me realise how much of that stuff i still use! I still have a tape player in my car and so make mix tapes when time allows! It took me ages to get into cds and i've still not really embraced MP3's (you don't own them) I've still got a turntable and all my old vinyl... my house is a museum obviously!

Loved, loved, loved last night's programme!
I remember sulking that i had to have a telly for christmas and wait until my birthday for my Zx spectrum (wasn't allowed to have it the other way around) - gosh didn't realise they were all so relatively expensive!
I was addicted to the handheld games as well. We used to take them all round to someone's house and then swap them.
Glad they showed manic miner... Was chuckling to myself about Hamish programming the Acorn and remember doing that myself - spending about an hour typing in rubbish from a magazine for it to say syntax error? :hihi:
Remember using those at school I'd still have had the spectrum - but the commodore 64 was great too! Surprised they didn't show an Atari in the really early 80s as that was what everyone wanted then!
So much changed in that decade! I remembered getting all of the gadgets mentioned (apart from a C5 even though i begged and pleaded for one!) - my family got a video camera for the birth of my sister - then my mum did the usual taping corrie over the tape!
However it also made me realise how much of that stuff i still use! I still have a tape player in my car and so make mix tapes when time allows! It took me ages to get into cds and i've still not really embraced MP3's (you don't own them) I've still got a turntable and all my old vinyl... my house is a museum obviously!

i nearly died when i discovered the speak & spell would have cost £120. No wonder my mum said no to me all the time about it :lol:

My grandad used to own a spectrum.... i used to play the miner game all the time.

Still got a load of 80s gadgets and toys up in the loft, wonder how much they'd be worth on eBay?

ZX81, Spectrum, Raleigh Night Burner BMX, Astro Wars/Pacman type games, Action Men, Starbird Spaceship, Star Wars figures

Could create my own version of Electric Dreams with this lot :)

Still got a load of 80s gadgets and toys up in the loft, wonder how much they'd be worth on eBay?

ZX81, Spectrum, Raleigh Night Burner BMX, Astro Wars/Pacman type games, Action Men, Starbird Spaceship, Star Wars figures

Could create my own version of Electric Dreams with this lot :)

wow... is it sad i'm quite impressed by that?

i loved watching this programme. It made me feel so nostalgic !!I am looking forward to watching next weeks show. I am unsure why they have a 90's show though as tbh its not gonna be all that much different from the 00's

It was. They are worlds apart. You just don't notice as you get older.

Someone ten years older than you might not be able to distinguish the 70s and 80s very well