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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 CluneKristen BrooksModern 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.