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Who watched electrc dreams last night ?(not the film with the sad little computer, this was part 1 of a 3 part series), it was on at nine on BBC4 -up against crimewatch and CSI Miami so probably it didn't get many viewers.
Basic premise of the prog was the hoary old '1970's family', they stuck a family in a house with like 1971 only stuff in it and let them get on with it fly-on-the-wall style.
However the programme went right through the seventies which meant, for these people, every day a year had passed & they got more hi-tech in their lifetstyle.
I.e. it got to 1976 and the technical team took away the B&W telly and gave them a colour cos that was the year when colour licences passed B&W for the first time in UK.
The kids were , as usual in progs like this, appalled at no mobiles or internet and they had to play with toys of the time while their mother cooked food of the time.
It got to 77 and they found themsleves with Atari playing pong , Dad got to his office in 1979 (it was filmed last winter and thick snow earlier so he couldn't) and found the team had beaten him to it, his modern PC and desk phone had gone so he had this monster Commodore Pro with a really small screen to work with - and all the programmes were on tape so he had to load up for hours!
I spent a lot of time sighing with nostalgia while wife looked up from her boook and shook her head at me.
Next episode is the eighties and then onto nineties so I can't wait.
One thing that was noted by the kids on the programme was how much freedom their 1970's counterparts must have had and they seemed really envious of this
Basic premise of the prog was the hoary old '1970's family', they stuck a family in a house with like 1971 only stuff in it and let them get on with it fly-on-the-wall style.
However the programme went right through the seventies which meant, for these people, every day a year had passed & they got more hi-tech in their lifetstyle.
I.e. it got to 1976 and the technical team took away the B&W telly and gave them a colour cos that was the year when colour licences passed B&W for the first time in UK.
The kids were , as usual in progs like this, appalled at no mobiles or internet and they had to play with toys of the time while their mother cooked food of the time.
It got to 77 and they found themsleves with Atari playing pong , Dad got to his office in 1979 (it was filmed last winter and thick snow earlier so he couldn't) and found the team had beaten him to it, his modern PC and desk phone had gone so he had this monster Commodore Pro with a really small screen to work with - and all the programmes were on tape so he had to load up for hours!
I spent a lot of time sighing with nostalgia while wife looked up from her boook and shook her head at me.
Next episode is the eighties and then onto nineties so I can't wait.
One thing that was noted by the kids on the programme was how much freedom their 1970's counterparts must have had and they seemed really envious of this
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