Turn Back Time
Overview
Modern families experience life in previous eras.
Key Crew
Director: Adam Hopkins
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (2010)
A group of shop-keeping families are transported back to the birth of the high street in the 1870s, and propelled through a century of change, right up to the modern era and the 1970s.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Victorian
2010-11-02A group of modern shopkeepers and their families live and trade through six key eras of history. They begin their journey in the 1870s, when the high street was born.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Edwardian
2010-11-09The shopkeepers move on to the Edwardian era, where they are joined by a dressmaker.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: 1930s
2010-11-16The shopkeepers move into the 1930s, where nostalgia boosts sales for the grocers.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: World War Two
2010-11-23The shopkeepers and their customers are plunged into World War Two.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: 1960s
2010-11-30The shopkeepers and their customers move into the swinging sixties.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: 1970s
2010-12-07It's the end of the journey for the shopkeepers and their customers head to the 1970s.
Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 (2012)
Exploring what it means to be a mother, father and child in British society today and throughout 100 years of change, as three modern families experience life across five eras of British life.
5 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Edwardian Era
2012-06-26Three modern families find out what family life is like in the Edwardian era.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: The Interwar Years
2012-07-03The three families experience family life during the Interwar years.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: The Home Front
2012-07-10The three families experience family life on the home front during World War II.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: 1960s
2012-07-17The street is introduced to a new family, and the Taylors leave the high life behind.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: 1970s
2012-07-24Daily life in the 70s is turned upside down by strikes, power cuts and women's liberation.
Runtime: 60 minVideos
Turn Back Time: The High Street trailer - BBC One
