0:00:02 > 0:00:05Meet the Ashby Hawkins family. For one summer,
0:00:05 > 0:00:08they're giving up the trappings of their modern lives and travelling
0:00:08 > 0:00:12back in time to live through 50 years of British weekends.
0:00:14 > 0:00:20Steph, Rob, Daisy and Seth will experience a radical transformation
0:00:20 > 0:00:22in how we spend our leisure time.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23I'm free!
0:00:23 > 0:00:25- From the formal... - I feel like I'm going to a wedding.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28..to the frivolous.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29We're going on holiday.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31From do-it-yourself...
0:00:32 > 0:00:33..to doing almost nothing.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36You've turned into Wham!
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Starting in 1950...
0:00:38 > 0:00:42- Oh, my God.- ..their own home will be their time machine...
0:00:42 > 0:00:43It's 1961!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46..fast-forwarding them through a new year each day...
0:00:46 > 0:00:49What on earth are you doing?
0:00:49 > 0:00:52We're making a massive dartboard.
0:00:52 > 0:00:53It's beige.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Oh, there's a telly up in the corner as well, look.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00- ..as they discover how a social, technological...- What's that?
0:01:00 > 0:01:05..and spending revolution has transformed our free time forever.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07- Are you ready?- Yes!
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Last time in the '60s, it was out with the old and in with the new.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Now they're strutting into the '70s,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18a decade with something for everyone.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I was not born to stand in a muddy field,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22trying to put together a stupid tent.
0:01:35 > 0:01:36It's the third phase in
0:01:36 > 0:01:39the Ashby Hawkins' time-travelling adventure
0:01:39 > 0:01:43and the family's 1960s home has been transformed into a shrine
0:01:43 > 0:01:44to all things '70s.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Social historian Polly Russell is with me
0:01:50 > 0:01:53to explore what this new decade has in store for the family.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Wow, so here you are, 1970.
0:01:58 > 0:02:03- You see, we've used a lot of brown. - And there's so much more stuff.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06The room is just filled with stuff.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10These are all gadgets that are about leisure, aren't they?
0:02:10 > 0:02:12This feels like a room that is dedicated to comfort.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17A space in which you lounge, sort of spend more time relaxing.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Throughout this experiment, everything the Ashby Hawkins do
0:02:20 > 0:02:23will be guided by the family-expenditure survey.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Over 10,000 families a year took part in this government study...
0:02:30 > 0:02:33..recording their spending on everything from clothes pegs
0:02:33 > 0:02:34to a new car.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38The original handwritten diaries have been shredded
0:02:38 > 0:02:41but their data give the best possible clues as to what
0:02:41 > 0:02:44families were doing in their leisure time.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48We've had the surveys analysed and what they show -
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and it's sort of evidenced in the house -
0:02:50 > 0:02:55is that people are spending more money on more goods.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57- TVs and radios, I can see. - Yup, holidays...
0:02:57 > 0:03:01This is the first decade where people are spending a significant
0:03:01 > 0:03:06proportion of their income on leisure activities, on fun.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Compared to how things were in the '50s and '60s,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11you're really seeing a change in behaviour.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17The austerity of the 1950s meant that work, rather than play,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19dominated the family's free time.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24The increasing affluence of the '60s brought in
0:03:24 > 0:03:26new forms of entertainment.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28And by the '70s,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31evidence of our increased spending power is everywhere.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34So people have more disposable income,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36they're spending it on all this stuff
0:03:36 > 0:03:37but where does this money come from?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40One of the reasons that there's more money available
0:03:40 > 0:03:45is that there is an enormous amount of unionised labour,
0:03:45 > 0:03:47more than 400 unions exist at this time.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51What that means is that wages keep pace with,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53and then sometimes exceed, inflation.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Remember, inflation is very high at this period.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57People are also spending on credit,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59that's what's really significant in this decade.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03There's an increase of about 90% spend on leisure activities.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08The 1970s is often perceived as a period of political
0:04:08 > 0:04:09and economic turmoil.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16But, despite regular strikes, fears of rising unemployment
0:04:16 > 0:04:21and hyperinflation, most British families enjoyed higher wages
0:04:21 > 0:04:23and more time off than ever before.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29One '70s survey reported that Britons were among the happiest
0:04:29 > 0:04:31people in the world.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34My memory of my childhood is that we did spend a lot of really
0:04:34 > 0:04:36good time together as a family.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39So I'm just really looking forward to the '70s and I'm hoping
0:04:39 > 0:04:43that I'm going to spend more time out of the kitchen than in it
0:04:43 > 0:04:47this time and I've even painted my nails in honour of that, so...
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I hope to have a lot of fun. '70s is disco.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Come on, it's Saturday Night Fever, Bees Gees, I love it.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56'70s is, you know, my home.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02This is the bit that I love. Seeing the house gives me butterflies.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Oh, my God.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07We've got yellow curtains.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10This is a hideous.
0:05:10 > 0:05:11They match!
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Yeah, I can land planes again.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17It's a bar!
0:05:17 > 0:05:20It is, that is kind of cool.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22- You could do a selfie with it. - Two minutes in.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25There's all this other stuff to look at and you're just doing selfies.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- What? It's fun. - Unbelievable.- Oh, no.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33- So much bigger. - That is not a cute bunny.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35It says "sweets" on the front, though.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37That is not a cute... Its head comes off.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Wow, look at this.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44The house isn't the only thing that's changed.
0:05:44 > 0:05:50We've got a patio and - can I just say? - I've got a sunlounger.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53I feel like we've really gone up in the world.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Hang on.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57CLUNKING
0:05:57 > 0:05:58You've broken the patio!
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I was born in the '70s, I was born in 1971, so I remember
0:06:03 > 0:06:07everything because I enjoyed it so much and I love every bit of it.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10You moved it. It was NOT there, it was a centimetre away.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Daisy won it, I'm afraid.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13It's a huge contrast to the '50s.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15It's like conveyor belt stuff on The Generation Game.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18There's this and there's this and there's a cuddly toy.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20It's just... There's so much stuff.
0:06:22 > 0:06:27- Wow.- Hello, Giles.- Good afternoon. You look extraordinary.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29I mean, extraordinarily marvellous.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33You're probably expecting quite a lot of social change and excitement.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Rob, you're going to have a bit more spare time and free cash.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Spend a bit more time with your children.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Steph, you are still basically tied down to the stove.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43How progressive(!)
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Daisy, there is progression because, although you're still at school,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48because the school leaving age has gone up to 16, you don't
0:06:48 > 0:06:52have to aspire any more to being a housewife like your mother.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55And, Seth, really, you know, you're a 12-year-old boy,
0:06:55 > 0:06:59just get on with your thing. Even if you are dressed as Rupert Bear.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01- This is your manual for the '70s. - Thank you very much.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- Enjoy the decade of love. - Thanks, Giles.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Thank you very much. Thank you, Giles.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12By 1970, Britons were spending less time at work and more at play.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17The average working day was around 40 minutes shorter than it
0:07:17 > 0:07:18had been a decade earlier.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23For Rob, that will mean more spare time
0:07:23 > 0:07:27and a chance to try out the latest craze sweeping suburbia.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31Right, son, what are we making?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- Beer.- Beer?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Step one, heat three litres of water to 71 degrees,
0:07:38 > 0:07:39adding grain mixture...
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Stirring gently.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Over the '70s, our alcohol consumption rose by nearly 40%.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52And brew-it-yourself really took off.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56So much so that even Boots sold a home-brew kit.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59With 85p and one of these and some water and sugar
0:07:59 > 0:08:04you can make yourself 40 pints of wallop.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Home-brewing required plenty of patience.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10The fermentation process could take up to three weeks.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14Modern era, I'd never make my own beer. Would you?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16No, I wouldn't.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Well, I'm 12.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19By the time this is finished, you'll be 18,
0:08:19 > 0:08:21you'll be able to have a glass of it, won't you?
0:08:21 > 0:08:24In their normal lives, Rob is a stay-at-home dad
0:08:24 > 0:08:26and Steph is the main breadwinner.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31But, so far in this experiment, their roles have been reversed...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34..reflecting the fact that, even by the 1970s,
0:08:34 > 0:08:39half of married women were full-time housewives.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Lift your feet up.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45And, although our homes were full of labour-saving devices,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48it was still a woman's job to push them around.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52Mum, this magazine, I don't know if it's serious or not.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Did people actually think that moustaches were, you know,
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- attractive and sexy?- Yeah.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03At what point do you go, "Oh, he's nice! I want to get with him"?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Millions of girls...
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I...I...I...even...
0:09:07 > 0:09:08bleurgh!
0:09:08 > 0:09:11- He's saying what I'm thinking. "Very nice."- "Very nice."
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- That's the hour.- Yup.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Now, it says, "Place sieve over third empty pot, pour grains into
0:09:19 > 0:09:23"sieve and collect sugary liquid, or 'wort', in the empty pot below."
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Check.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Beer.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Seth, we've got a telephone, it's so cool.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36So cool. I mean, the only issue is I can't take it round the house.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I've got to sit here. Do you like it?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43It is a bit impractical.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Because in, like, modern day, you just go, contact list,
0:09:46 > 0:09:50- find their name, hit call. - It's better than the phone box.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54The Ashby Hawkins are among the lucky ones.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57They've joined the 35% of households who now have
0:09:57 > 0:09:59a telephone line.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Like this London family who spent £1.45 a month
0:10:03 > 0:10:06renting their phone from the Post Office.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09It means I can have my four-hour telephone calls again.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10That will cost a lot of money.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13That's fine, I'm not paying the bill.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19I think it's unfair that I'm still doing all of the housework, I don't
0:10:19 > 0:10:22understand why, because I'm a woman, I should be doing all the housework.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26I didn't understand it and '50s, '60s and now the '70s. Damn.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34I don't know any tunes.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Erm...
0:10:36 > 0:10:39First day, massive smile and I made beer,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42although I've got to wait two or three weeks to drink it.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45I might just go and buy some beer while I'm waiting.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Maybe that'll do the job. Thank you.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Boggle! Boggle.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02It's a new day and, in this experiment, that means a new year.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09- It's 1971.- Yay! - Yay, I was born then!
0:11:09 > 0:11:10PHONE RINGS
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- There's the phone. - Do you want to go get it?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I'm going to go and get the phone.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- No cheating.- I'm not cheating.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21So far in this experiment, Rob and Steph have rented their home.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Hello? Giles?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30But I've made arrangements that could change all that.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- OK, thanks very much. - Bye, kids, see you later.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35See you later.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Throughout the '50s and '60s,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40the majority of Britons rented their properties.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45Even by 1971, only 49% of British families were homeowners.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48And getting a mortgage required a face-to-face meeting
0:11:48 > 0:11:51at the bank or building society.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Our last mortgage,
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I just pretty much sat in my pants at home on the computer.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58You can't do that today. You have to be like this.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59Got to go in a suit and tie.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05In 1971, the Conservative government had encouraged high-street banks
0:12:05 > 0:12:08to enter the mortgage market.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10And the number of home loans quadrupled.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15Bedroom, second bedroom,
0:12:15 > 0:12:17the master bedroom.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20When you do tell people you've got your own house, you know,
0:12:20 > 0:12:25to say to somebody, it just feels nice. You know?
0:12:25 > 0:12:29If you pay rent, I mean, you pay it for the rest of your...
0:12:29 > 0:12:33rest of your life and, at the end of it, you've nothing to show.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Oh!
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Come on, Max, jump off the edge, jump off the side.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47With their parents otherwise occupied,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51Seth has joined friends at an adventure playground,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53while Daisy's at the nearby youth club.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Come on, come on, come on.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57L-O-S-E-R.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02In 1971, nearly seven out of ten teenagers were youth-club members.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05It's actually not that bad.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Oh, no! No!
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Children had far greater freedom to play and to roam.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Oh, God, they're really thin.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Often in conditions that would be considered downright dangerous now.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Playtime meant scrambling over old tyres, planks and plenty of tarmac.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Over there, when we were injuring each other,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38that was fun because, normally, adults would be stopping us saying,
0:13:38 > 0:13:40"Oh, no, don't do that, don't do that,"
0:13:40 > 0:13:41but it adds to the fun,
0:13:41 > 0:13:44the fact that we're doing what we want to do.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Today, one-third of children aged eight to ten have never played
0:13:48 > 0:13:49outside without an adult.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54And two-thirds have never been to a park by themselves.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Normally, I'd be sitting inside playing on my computer
0:13:57 > 0:13:58and Skyping my friends.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00I feel like this is a much better way than computers
0:14:00 > 0:14:03because you're out and about, you're socialising with your friends,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06you're laughing, you're having fun and it's just a lot better than
0:14:06 > 0:14:08looking at them through a computer screen.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Seth is back just in time for tea and to hear some good news.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21"Dear Mr Hawkins, the bank is prepared to lend you
0:14:21 > 0:14:26"the undermentioned amount subject to conditions, advance of £5,000."
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Wow.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31£5,000 to buy a house in 1971.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33We're rich!
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Does that mean we can change the wallpaper?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Why would you want to change the wallpaper?
0:14:37 > 0:14:38"Why wou..."?
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Between 1970 and '73, house prices more than doubled.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51The cost of the average British home soon hit £10,500.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54And an all-too-familiar problem emerged.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58With inflation on this scale, for many, the prospect of ever
0:14:58 > 0:15:01owning their own home forever retreats into the distance.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08La Dolce Vita! The sweet life.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Rising levels of ownership saw more Brits than ever
0:15:11 > 0:15:15using their free time to indulge in a spot of home improvement.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18You'll find fuses mainly in two places, in the fuse box...
0:15:18 > 0:15:22They're clever, these electrical people. ..and in the plug itself,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24if you've got one of these square pin plugs.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28People were spending on wallpaper, paint, tools and brushes.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30# Gimme some more... #
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Like this family in the East Midlands,
0:15:32 > 0:15:35who spent £3.45 on DIY materials.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40While the Ashby-Hawkins have invested in another '70s fad.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Cork tiles.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44# Yes, gimme some more... #
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- Pretty satisfying. It's really satisfying.- It's our difference.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49And I've actually got a smile on my face.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51The point is, we're making a difference to the house.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Well, I'm so happy to be out of the kitchen.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I'm so happy that we're actually doing something together
0:15:58 > 0:15:59and interacting.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Mine's going much better than yours.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06I've already managed to mess this up.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- Oh, that looks so cute!- God, this is so...difficult!
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I'm making a daisy.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14It's just lovely to be actually doing something.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I do think it's... It is like, you get an idea
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- and you execute it to the nth degree...- What on earth are you doing?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- We're making a massive dartboard. - What we're doing, Daisy,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27is home improvement! To the home that we now own.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29What are you doing to this house?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Seth, come and see what Mum and Dad have ruined!
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- You've led the witness. - Seth, you've got to give me your honest opinion, Seth.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- Don't be led into it.- Come here, come here and look.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39What do you think?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44- It's not finished...- What have you done?!- Exactly!
0:16:44 > 0:16:45There we go.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48So you get a mortgage, which means you're allowed to do anything
0:16:48 > 0:16:51to your house, and the first thing you do is THAT?
0:16:51 > 0:16:561971 and I actually got out of the kitchen! Whoo-whoo!
0:16:56 > 0:17:00OK, well, I moved from one side of the room to the other,
0:17:00 > 0:17:02but you know, hey, it's progress, isn't it?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04'I've really enjoyed today.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06'Because we got to spend time together.'
0:17:06 > 0:17:08...with a cork tile on your head!
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- I like this DIY larky!- Where's the cloth?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Yeah, 1971.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14It's all right.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15If you like cork tiles.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- It's 1972.- Ooh!
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- See you later, darling. I'm off to work.- Have a good day.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28And you. Bye-bye.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33In about 25 minutes' time,
0:17:33 > 0:17:35we should know which player has won the Pot Black trophy.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37What ball is that?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40How can you tell if they're doing well or not?
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- I do like the bow ties, though. - Yeah, their outfits are kind of cool.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Ooh, we've got some post, kids!
0:17:46 > 0:17:48"It's 1972, the year of borrow now, pay later!"
0:17:48 > 0:17:51I like the sound of that.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54"Hot off the press, here's your very latest Access credit card."
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Whoohoo!
0:17:55 > 0:17:57"And I've arranged your first purchase, too.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59"Happy spending, from Giles."
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Oh!
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Look at that! It's a credit card!
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Access. Your flexible friend.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Although the first credit card had been introduced six years earlier,
0:18:11 > 0:18:15the arrival of Access in 1972 rapidly increased their popularity.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I'm meeting financial expert Martin Lewis to find out how
0:18:20 > 0:18:25the explosion of credit would transform our leisure time.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26- Hiya.- Nice to see you.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29There it is, the Access card itself.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32"Borrow now, pay later" was their catchphrase.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35So what were people doing up until now?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Before we had this type of credit card freedom,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40whatever you wanted to buy, if you needed to borrow for it,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43you had to go and talk to the bank manager or the building society,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46you had to pitch it to them, bow and scrape.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48"Would it be OK if..." "How much is it going to cost?"
0:18:48 > 0:18:51"I'm not sure you should be doing that!" This card's totally different.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Just the name itself.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57"Access" to whatever you want, "access" to go and buy your washing machine.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Look at the advert. "Access helps you listen in stereo".
0:19:00 > 0:19:03And he looks very relaxed about paying!
0:19:03 > 0:19:07- Right, now, what do we need in this store? Children's clothes? Food mixer? Cosmetics?- Ohhh!
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Access, the ads promised, "took the waiting out of wanting."
0:19:12 > 0:19:15By the end of the decade, 9 million of us had a credit card.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17That's one in four adults.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21The future was plastic.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- Hello, there, darling!- Hello! - I've got your first purchase... - Uncle Mario!
0:19:26 > 0:19:28..that you've made.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32- How are you?- I'm good. The telly! - It's your first purchase here for you.- Is it heavy?
0:19:32 > 0:19:36- Well, heavy for you, but not for me. - Are you sure?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- I don't want you to do your back in.- How's that?
0:19:39 > 0:19:42- 'Not everyone could have a new telly delivered by a relative.'- Careful!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46'But in 1972, Steph's Uncle Mario was a manager
0:19:46 > 0:19:49'at high-street electrical chain Curry's.'
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Keep watching, you will see what happens.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Oh, oh, there we go! It's coloured! That looks really cool.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56You can actually make sense of the game now!
0:19:56 > 0:19:59I used to watch Pot Black with my dad.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02I used to watch it in black-and-white and then when we had colour,
0:20:02 > 0:20:04I watched it even more. I used to love it.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05It's smashing, isn't it?
0:20:05 > 0:20:08When the first colour television came out,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11I seem to remember that we cleared the shop floor, you know?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Everything.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- We reached the stage where everything was sold.- Wow.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18A colour television was a new gizmo.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22People said, "Oh, tonight, snooker is on!"
0:20:22 > 0:20:25It was a social evening, you know?
0:20:25 > 0:20:28You'd get a few sandwiches out and things like that, and watch colour television.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32- You could say, "Oh, look! The black's gone in!"- The colours are absolutely beautiful.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- It is quite... It's a beautiful television.- Yet, it does.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37It feels like, more...vibrant.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40While the kids settle in for an afternoon in front of the telly,
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Steph's found some precious time for herself.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47She's getting into the home-made spirit of the '70s.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Clothkits, as in make your own. They are printed with patterns on,
0:20:50 > 0:20:54and all you have to do is cut around the outline and stitch them together.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58It's actually quite therapeutic to do this, because I'm making something.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02It's actually doing something that's useful and...
0:21:02 > 0:21:04And creative and fun.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08I had a Clothkits skirt, when I was a little girl,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10so this really brings back memories.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13They've got some corking stuff in there. Like, look.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Would you put your child in that?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16BLUE PETER THEME TUNE
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Oh, it's Blue Peter!
0:21:18 > 0:21:21In '72, even classic children's TV
0:21:21 > 0:21:24couldn't avoid news of a looming crisis.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Now, what with the power cuts continuing and the situation
0:21:27 > 0:21:30doesn't appear to be going to get very much better in the near
0:21:30 > 0:21:32future, it's a particularly difficult time for old people.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35It certainly is, because older people get cold very easily.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38We've got a bed over here, and the best thing to do is lay out
0:21:38 > 0:21:42sheets of newspaper, fairly thickly, between the blanket.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45And if you do that, the old folks will stay as warm as toast.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51In January 1972, 300,000 miners had walked out on strike,
0:21:51 > 0:21:55demanding a 25% pay increase to keep pace with inflation.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59In these days before North Sea oil, Britain consumed
0:21:59 > 0:22:01two million tons of coal a week.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06With the mines closed, the National Grid risked shutdown,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09and power cuts became a regular occurrence.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Sales of candles and camping gas rocketed and many factories
0:22:13 > 0:22:15and offices closed before dark.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18So Rob's able to come home early.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23- I'm home!- And that means more fun with the family.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Hey! Hi, kids.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Tonight, it's indoor golf.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30You can't do this on a carpet.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34- Yeah, I'm going to.- Yeah, on the floor, without the carpet. - Here we go.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38- Oh!- OK.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40- What's the par?- It's a par two.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42SETH SNORTS
0:22:42 > 0:22:45- Yeah?- OK?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Hole-in-one!
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Oof!- One!
0:22:49 > 0:22:50I don't think at any point,
0:22:50 > 0:22:54I was thinking, "Oh, yeah, 1970s! Golf on the shagpile!"
0:22:54 > 0:22:55I didn't think that at all.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59- That's five.- It was about seven... Oh, my God! Dad! Stop it!
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Mum, is the window insured?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- What?- Nothing!- No, don't worry about it.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07You've broken my house!
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- 18!- ALL: Yay!
0:23:10 > 0:23:12It's time to put it away, that's what it is, yeah.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- No, it is not!- I'll play that, I'll play that.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- ALL: Oh!- Oh, no.- Oh, no.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21- Where's the candles?- Why is it dark? - Power cut!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Er, Mum?
0:23:23 > 0:23:26I've got a couple more in the kitchen...
0:23:26 > 0:23:27And...
0:23:27 > 0:23:31And because I now can't sew, I thought
0:23:31 > 0:23:34- I'd join in with a candlelit game of golf.- OK, so two, five or six?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Two, five or six? Come on.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39It's also a bit strange, now, because the '70s seems a lot more technology-reliant.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I mean, you've got colour TV, a stereo, and then suddenly,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- "Oh, no, you can't have any this any more!"- They didn't have the power, yeah.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Here, have some power cuts!
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Aw, that's brilliant.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52MUSIC: La Marseillaise
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Oof.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Why?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- RADIO:- The French national anthem on this,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04an historic morning for Britain,
0:24:04 > 0:24:06our first in the European Economic Community.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09In January '73, Britain had joined the EEC,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12opening new trade markets with Europe.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16So today, the Ashby-Hawkins are getting a French-made continental treat.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21It's being delivered by the very first presenter of Top Gear.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Hello?- Angela Rippon! Hello!
0:24:26 > 0:24:28TOP GEAR THEME PLAYS
0:24:28 > 0:24:30ANGELA LAUGHS
0:24:30 > 0:24:33And that's where we end this first edition of Top Gear.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36I brought your new car.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Oh, it's lovely. Thank you so much! How exciting!
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- I think it's bigger than the last one you had. You had a Mini, didn't you?- Yes.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Yeah. Oh, it's beautiful. - But this...- Wow.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46..is a Renault 5.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52The Renault 5 was one of 1973's most popular new models.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57It could do 0-60 in an impressive 19 seconds.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Very innovative, because it's got a hatchback.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02We decided we wouldn't give you any old rubbish.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- We're so thrilled, thank you. - Not at all.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Well, I hope you enjoy driving it. Who's got the keys?
0:25:07 > 0:25:11- Shame we can't take Angela with us. - I'm not going in the boot!
0:25:11 > 0:25:12HE LAUGHS
0:25:15 > 0:25:18HORN HONKS
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- Oh!- That's a nice car! - HORN HONKS
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Back in the '60s, Rob had taken the wheel.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30But now, like a third of '70s women, Steph's got a licence.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Just like Angela.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34There are a lot of bad drivers.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Some of them are women, but an awful lot of them are men.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41By 1973, just over half of Britons owned a car,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44opening up more options for our leisure time.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46From trips to historic buildings and the seaside
0:25:46 > 0:25:48to simply popping out to the pub.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Kids, me and your mum are going in for a beer. What?!
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- We're going for beer. - But what about us?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- You're staying in the car. - We'll see you later.- The window's open to keep you cool.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02- Why did you bring us in the first place?!- See you later!- You left us in the car?
0:26:02 > 0:26:07It'll be another 21 years before children are allowed in pubs.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09DAISY SIGHS
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Luckily for Rob and Steph,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13'70s attitudes to childcare were more relaxed than today.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Spot the ball. They're jumping up, he's looking over here. He's looking down.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Shall we do one each?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- There.- OK.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Just abandoned us.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24They've dragged us all the way to the pub
0:26:24 > 0:26:26and we can just...stay in the car.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28I'm not a dog.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30We have no phones, we have no computers, we have no books,
0:26:30 > 0:26:32we have nothing.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33We're just going to sit in here, bored.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38- Cosmopolitan.- Yep, it's looking good already.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- Oh...- "Should you be single?" quiz.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42"You'll have many lovers!"
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Don't look at me like that!
0:26:46 > 0:26:50"And when break-up time comes, you're the first to move on.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52"Sometimes, friends find you a bit too in command."
0:26:52 > 0:26:54HE LAUGHS
0:26:54 > 0:26:57MUSIC: Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
0:26:57 > 0:27:01To celebrate joining the EEC, Steph's preparing a continental feast.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03MUSIC CONTINUES
0:27:03 > 0:27:06While Rob, who normally does the cooking, puts his feet up.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08So I'm cooking French tonight.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11And I've never made Boeuf Bourguignon before.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Really hungry now.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Thanks for making me hungry, Mum.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Here's the wine.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19This is the continental bit.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22The only thing I've got is...leftover Chianti,
0:27:22 > 0:27:26which for me... It's very unusual to have anything left over in the wine department.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28You sound like an alcoholic.
0:27:28 > 0:27:33What I want to talk about today is a fact that a decision rarely
0:27:33 > 0:27:35has a single intended impact...
0:27:35 > 0:27:37While her Boeuf Bourguignon simmers,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Steph's using the time to broaden her horizons.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45She's starting an Open University social studies course.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47It's actually quite hard to watch this,
0:27:47 > 0:27:50because the facial hair is quite alarming.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52And the jumpers are quite...
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Quite distracting.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59Let's take a decision-maker A, who intends an impact X.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03The OU had taken on its first students in 1971.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08Courses could be done from home, making them an attractive option for housewives.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11This could, I think, have tremendous impact of change.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13The OU itself could be revolutionary.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Perhaps it isn't so awful being married to somebody
0:28:15 > 0:28:18who can actually think, instead of just hoover and dust.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20If I were a '70s housewife,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I think I would have been doing anything to keep my brain alive.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26I think there were probably a lot of women who felt very trapped
0:28:26 > 0:28:28that actually used this as an escape.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31So, brilliant.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33BASS-HEAVY SOUL MUSIC PLAYS
0:28:34 > 0:28:38Family, it's 1974!
0:28:38 > 0:28:39Seth!
0:28:39 > 0:28:431974 began with another economic crisis.
0:28:43 > 0:28:48Conflict in the Middle East led to a sharp hike in the price of petrol.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51It now cost five times what it had in 1969.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54The price of petrol's going to go up to 50p a gallon!
0:28:54 > 0:28:57They've decided to more than double the price of their oil
0:28:57 > 0:28:59from 5.09 to 11.6.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02That's a big hike, isn't it?
0:29:02 > 0:29:04We're going to have to think twice about going out in the car.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07The government's response was to implement a three-day
0:29:07 > 0:29:10working week in an effort to save fuel and resources.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12So what does it mean to us, then?
0:29:12 > 0:29:15It basically means there's going to be more power cuts,
0:29:15 > 0:29:18and I'm going to be spending more time at home with you.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20I thought the '70s was going to improve!
0:29:20 > 0:29:23The last time we spent time with the family, you left me in the car with Seth.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25That's not family time.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28- RADIO:- The government has ordered severe cuts in electricity...
0:29:28 > 0:29:32The three-day week meant a period of adjustment to a more basic way of living.
0:29:32 > 0:29:37Street lights were dimmed by 50%, to save power.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41Speed limits were reduced to a maximum of 50mph to conserve fuel.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Even the BBC closed down early, at 10:30 PM.
0:29:47 > 0:29:50On behalf of all of us here are the Television Centre,
0:29:50 > 0:29:52a very good night. Good night.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54But there were some benefits.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58The three-day working week meant a four-day weekend.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Richard's Bicycle Book says before we go out on our bikes,
0:30:01 > 0:30:03we have to test to make sure everything is in working order.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04BELL TRINGS
0:30:04 > 0:30:09Check the brakes, please, roll forward. They work excellently. Check your lights.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11- Don't have one.- Check the dynamo, you've got your dynamo on the back.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14- Off you go then! - I don't have a helmet.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17It made me the man I am today, not wearing a helmet.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21So off you go! See you, kids! From me and Richard, bye-bye!
0:30:21 > 0:30:23BELLS TRING
0:30:24 > 0:30:27DAISY SHRIEKS
0:30:27 > 0:30:29During the three-day week,
0:30:29 > 0:30:33more and more Britons abandoned their fuel-guzzling cars for pedal power.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38By the end of the decade, bike sales had trebled,
0:30:38 > 0:30:41with well over a million new bikes sold every year.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46So far, 1974's been really, really good.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48I've really, really enjoyed it.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50Just going out is really nice.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53It's much better than the '60s and '50s,
0:30:53 > 0:30:55where I was quite...indoors a lot. Do you know what, Seth?
0:30:55 > 0:30:58In the '70s, we didn't... We've actually spent quite
0:30:58 > 0:31:02a lot of time together, and you know what? I'm glad we have.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05- I love you, my little brother! - I don't.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09I think Seth's just being a bit modest about spending time with me.
0:31:10 > 0:31:11You're not cool!
0:31:11 > 0:31:13That's so rude!
0:31:13 > 0:31:17MUSIC: It's A Family Affair by Sly and the Family Stone.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21The three-day week means Rob's got more time to share with Steph, too.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24# It's a family affair... #
0:31:24 > 0:31:27Although Mastermind's perhaps not top of his list.
0:31:27 > 0:31:29# It's a family affair... #
0:31:29 > 0:31:32So I've sent a special guest with one of the decade's most popular games.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35- DOORBELL RINGS - The door!- Are you getting it?
0:31:35 > 0:31:39- We're both getting it.- Think we're both getting the door...
0:31:39 > 0:31:42- Hello.- Eric Bristow! Wow.- Hello!
0:31:42 > 0:31:45- Come in! Welcome, welcome to the 1970s.- Hello, sir.- How are you?
0:31:45 > 0:31:49- Good afternoon. I'm very well. - Thank you.- Welcome to our house.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52How absolutely amazing!
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Fancy a game?
0:31:54 > 0:31:58In the mid-'70s, darts was phenomenally popular.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00According to one national survey,
0:32:00 > 0:32:04three times as many adults regularly played darts as played football.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Eric Bristow was then a rising star in the game.
0:32:09 > 0:32:15A warm welcome to Eric Bristow! Come on, Eric.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18He went on to be five times World Darts Champion.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22- What was it like playing in the '70s?- It was superb.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25It was a different era then.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28I mean, we played darts then on TV where you could have a pint
0:32:28 > 0:32:31- and you could smoke even on TV. - Of course, yeah!
0:32:31 > 0:32:34I've got some beer actually that I made...recently.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38I've not tried it. I might go blind in one eye.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42- I had a brewing kit and I made some beer.- Dangerous. Dangerous.- It is.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46- So how did you get started?- My dad got me a dart board when I was 11.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49But by the time I was 14, he took me down the local pub
0:32:49 > 0:32:53and I used to play for a tenner a game, sixpence a game then.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56- Get in there. You have a go there. - Go on, bull's-eye.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Pound for bull's-eye. Pound for bull's-eye.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04Darts may have taken off down the pub, but it wasn't just for men.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Everybody was throwing a dart.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09Even my mother joined a ladies' dart team.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Once the week, she used to go out with them
0:33:11 > 0:33:15and it was just a bit of fun and that's still the same now.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17- I nearly killed the cameraman! - Yeah, I think you did.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19THEY LAUGH
0:33:19 > 0:33:21A five.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24- Oh!- YEAH! See?
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Cut! That's it.
0:33:28 > 0:33:33- Let's...play...darts. - CHEERING
0:33:33 > 0:33:35- Oh!- Off the wall!- Holy Moses!
0:33:35 > 0:33:39The Daily Mail reported that, despite the global crisis,
0:33:39 > 0:33:43- the three-day week may actually be good for us.- 58.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46It seems that it was just a lot more family time now
0:33:46 > 0:33:47that's being spent in the '70s.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50There was a lot more bonding experiences.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54It doesn't happen in the modern day. Not really that often,
0:33:54 > 0:33:58because we're all sort of, "Oh, yeah, hello, yeah.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00"Food, let's eat," done. That's it.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03So it just seemed a lot nicer now. I don't know why.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05It just felt...a lot nicer.
0:34:05 > 0:34:10I'm really enjoying the experience and finding it very different.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14Do you know what, I realise I'm really not missing my technology
0:34:14 > 0:34:16as much as I thought I would.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19I would expect myself to go, "Oh, I don't have my phone!"
0:34:19 > 0:34:21But I really don't care.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25HE CHUCKLES
0:34:25 > 0:34:26Yeah.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32That was... Wait. One, two...
0:34:33 > 0:34:38Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you 1975.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40THEY CHEER
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Guess what. We're going...
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Oh, look at those!
0:34:47 > 0:34:49I wouldn't be able to do that in my skirt, but they're cool.
0:34:49 > 0:34:50We're going on holiday.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01In 1975, about eight out of ten holidays were taken in the UK.
0:35:04 > 0:35:08Full-time workers were now entitled to three to four weeks' paid holiday,
0:35:08 > 0:35:11almost double what they'd enjoyed in 1960.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16All the way round, it's yours.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19But with inflation running at over 20% that summer,
0:35:19 > 0:35:21most families had to watch the pennies.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Who's looking forward to going camping?
0:35:23 > 0:35:25- CHEERING - Fishing.
0:35:25 > 0:35:28# We're all going on a summer holiday! #
0:35:28 > 0:35:30- Are we there yet?- I'm not singing that. I can't do that.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33# We're all going on a rainy holiday. #
0:35:36 > 0:35:39- We're here, kids. We're here. - Yey!- Whoo!
0:35:39 > 0:35:41- So, is this our pitch here? - This is it.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45- You're parking right in the middle of the pitch?- Just right here, look.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47Right. What I'm going to do is I'm going to sit in the front
0:35:47 > 0:35:50and instruct you on how to do it.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54- Pitch it here.- Here.- You OK there?
0:35:54 > 0:35:58- Can't undo the knot.- This is revenge for when you left us in the car...
0:35:58 > 0:36:00- Yeah.- ..when you went to the pub.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04- This bit runs across the pointy top of the roof.- This is the top?- Yes!
0:36:04 > 0:36:06So I should be holding it like this then?
0:36:06 > 0:36:10CAR HORN TOOTS
0:36:10 > 0:36:13I'll put this tent pole somewhere in a minute!
0:36:13 > 0:36:14CAR HORN TOOTS
0:36:14 > 0:36:17- Stick that in that corner there. That'll connect, won't it? - CAR HORN TOOTS
0:36:17 > 0:36:21Stop it! Really? You can't do that on a campsite.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Is the roof done?
0:36:30 > 0:36:32It doesn't look very stable.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36We've been here for about an hour now and the tent is still not up.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39Oh, is it going to stay up?
0:36:39 > 0:36:42If you have a choice of a cheap package holiday to somewhere
0:36:42 > 0:36:45warm and sunny and this...
0:36:45 > 0:36:47yeah, there's no contest.
0:36:47 > 0:36:49The sun for me every time.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51There, Steph Ashby goes. Is she going to do it?
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Is she going to do it? Oh!
0:36:54 > 0:36:56- DAISY LAUGHS - They've broken it again.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58I was not born to stand in a muddy field,
0:36:58 > 0:37:01trying to put together a stupid tent with no proper instructions!
0:37:01 > 0:37:04That's not in line. That bit's wrong.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Who's going to lose it first, Mum or Dad?
0:37:08 > 0:37:09You're not helping, OK?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12- Do you hear me, the rest of you?- Rob, don't.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15You can see why we don't go camping in the modern day.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17Not because we don't want to, because of this.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20MUSIC: Benny Hill theme
0:37:35 > 0:37:39It's taken three and a half hours, but finally the holiday can begin.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Ready, steady...and they're off!
0:37:44 > 0:37:47DAISY SHRIEKS
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Come on, Daisy! Do it for the girls!
0:37:50 > 0:37:53Daisy's the winner! Winner!
0:37:57 > 0:38:01Camping was synonymous with simple pleasures in the great outdoors.
0:38:03 > 0:38:04Whatever the weather.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07- Have you caught anything yet? - No, not yet.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11When I was a lad, my dad used to take myself and my brothers
0:38:11 > 0:38:13fishing all the time. I used to absolutely love it.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15I used to tie the rod to my Bomber bike.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18- One of my favourite sports ever. - Yeah, I really enjoy it.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20I'm glad you enjoy it. I'm passing that down to you.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27Camping wasn't everyone's cup of tea, though.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33It's probably no surprise that many Britons
0:38:33 > 0:38:37turned their backs on the charms of the UK and flocked to sunny Spain.
0:38:42 > 0:38:43Burning hot '76.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45- TV:- 'The series of high anomalies over Europe
0:38:45 > 0:38:48'has meant that we've had far higher pressure than usual...'
0:38:48 > 0:38:50I don't actually know what he's talking about.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54This country is now in one of the worst periods of drought
0:38:54 > 0:38:56since records began 200 years ago.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02As the country enjoyed the hot summer of '76,
0:39:02 > 0:39:06Brits took any opportunity to spend more time outside.
0:39:07 > 0:39:12..Till you rinse the bonnet, or as they call it in France, Dubonnet.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Nice, soapy bubbles.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16- Bubbles!- Bubbles!
0:39:16 > 0:39:18You know, you can never say "bubbles" angrily.
0:39:18 > 0:39:22- What are you doing?! Stop!- Ladies.
0:39:22 > 0:39:23We've got to conserve water.
0:39:23 > 0:39:27We've got to cut our water consumption by half.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30Turn our stopcock down by 90% to reduce the flow.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33Flush the toilet only when absolutely essential.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36- What does that mean?! - If it's yellow, let it mellow.
0:39:36 > 0:39:37- If it's brown, flush it down.- Yeah.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40- ROB:- So, basically, the code of your jumper.
0:39:40 > 0:39:41- STEPH AND DAISY:- Oh!
0:39:44 > 0:39:48That summer, temperatures peaked at 35.9 degrees centigrade.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53Weather more reminiscent of the Costa Del Sol then Clacton.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57Water was in such short supply,
0:39:57 > 0:40:01we were even encouraged to save water - bath with a friend.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04I'm trying to do the breakfast washing-up,
0:40:04 > 0:40:06but because the stopcock is turned down 90%,
0:40:06 > 0:40:10it's just taking an absolute age to get any water.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13This I would normally just tip straight down the sink,
0:40:13 > 0:40:18but this is destined for re-use, so probably to flush the toilet.
0:40:18 > 0:40:19Very essential.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23As the drought dragged on, ever more desperate water-saving measures were
0:40:23 > 0:40:28introduced and some families even had their supply cut off altogether.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32Whole streets had to share communal standpipes.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36Us British, we can't decide if we like the hot weather or the cold weather,
0:40:36 > 0:40:39and then we complain if it rains and then we complain if it's to sunny.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41While the kids head to the standpipe,
0:40:41 > 0:40:44Polly's arrived with a delivery for their garden.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48- Hello.- Good morning.- Hello, Polly! - How are you?
0:40:48 > 0:40:53- So have you been having a balmy time today, 1976?- Yeah.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55- We sent the kids out to get water. - From a standpipe, yeah,
0:40:55 > 0:40:58- while we sat inside.- It's difficult to believe, isn't it?
0:40:58 > 0:41:01I think if you were actually wearing that much nylon in 1976,
0:41:01 > 0:41:05- you'd have fainted with the heat. - Yeah. So, why the oranges?
0:41:05 > 0:41:06More people are going abroad,
0:41:06 > 0:41:10so people are bringing back a bit of the exotic to the sort of
0:41:10 > 0:41:13English garden and particularly in 1976,
0:41:13 > 0:41:16really great to grow plants from a Mediterranean climate
0:41:16 > 0:41:19which are going to withstand this summer of incredible heat.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21It was a real challenge for gardeners
0:41:21 > 0:41:23in '76 to keep their gardens alive.
0:41:23 > 0:41:28Obviously patios, which is an idea that comes from Spain,
0:41:28 > 0:41:32and rockeries - they're much more easier to manage than
0:41:32 > 0:41:34the kind of English, sort of, idyllic lawn.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37- SETH:- There we go. A bit more.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40Otherwise, we're going to be here for ages.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44- Got to bend my knees for this. - Put your back into it!
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Brought back a memory of my dad
0:41:46 > 0:41:49attaching a hose to the bath upstairs
0:41:49 > 0:41:52and then trying, with suction, like he did with his home-brew, to try
0:41:52 > 0:41:56and get the water flowing down into buckets and stuff downstairs.
0:41:56 > 0:41:57I remember that.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00Do you know what, that was actually advice given in The Times.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02- SETH:- Turn it off!- I can't!
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Empty the coffee jug out.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08No, into the bucket!
0:42:08 > 0:42:09Argh! I can't do anything!
0:42:09 > 0:42:12- Oh! It's all over my... - I don't even need to shower!
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Seth, come on, you've got to help me.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18I think we should give the problem to the eldest.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21- Have fun! - DAISY GROANS
0:42:21 > 0:42:24- POLLY:- One of the other consequences of the drought was that aphids died
0:42:24 > 0:42:28and as a result of that, ladybirds had none of their own
0:42:28 > 0:42:32natural food and there were great swarms of ladybirds.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35Lots of reports of people being bitten
0:42:35 > 0:42:37and they became the sort of killer ladybird.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39That's ridiculous, isn't it?
0:42:39 > 0:42:42MUSIC PLAYS
0:42:42 > 0:42:43By the end of August,
0:42:43 > 0:42:47some parts of Britain had gone 45 days without rain.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49Ice cream van!
0:42:49 > 0:42:51It was good news for some, though.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54This is a blast from my childhood, having an ice cream van.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58- It's very loud.- It's the best thing ever, isn't it?- That's so cool!
0:42:58 > 0:43:02- How beautiful!- I remember all of this from my childhood.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05- It's amazing.- Cardboard, yes. Of course, they used to cover
0:43:05 > 0:43:09the ice cream with cardboard, didn't they? I used to lick the cardboard, it was delicious.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12- What are you going to have, kids? - DAISY:- Lemonade lolly, please.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13- SETH:- I'll have a Mini Milk.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16- Thank you very much.- Thank you so much. There's some money.
0:43:16 > 0:43:17- Oh, thank you!- Delicious! - Look at that.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20This is absolutely lovely.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29Yes, that's another hit!
0:43:29 > 0:43:31You've already asked me that one!
0:43:31 > 0:43:37It's 1977 and Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her silver jubilee.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43And it's a big year for Steph too.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46For the first time since she started this experiment,
0:43:46 > 0:43:49Steph's going out to work.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53I have to say, it feels pretty good to finally,
0:43:53 > 0:43:59finally be getting out the house to do something other than go shopping.
0:43:59 > 0:44:02Actually going out to work. I never thought I'd say that.
0:44:02 > 0:44:06I'm really looking forward to going to work. It's great. Can't wait.
0:44:06 > 0:44:07See you later.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14The '70s are often seen as a period of doom and gloom.
0:44:14 > 0:44:18For women, the decade brought many positive changes.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24By the mid-70s, about 50% of married women were in some
0:44:24 > 0:44:29form of paid employment, compared to one in three just a decade earlier.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Leaving the kids back at home,
0:44:33 > 0:44:36Steph's taken a part-time job at her local library.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42I'm not actually thinking about what anyone else at home might be
0:44:42 > 0:44:45doing right now, which probably makes me a terrible mother, but
0:44:45 > 0:44:48they're big enough and ugly enough to take care of themselves, aren't they?
0:44:48 > 0:44:53I'm just concentrating on what I'm doing, so it's kind of nice really.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57They actually might have to make a cup of tea for themselves.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Excuse me, I must get on.
0:45:00 > 0:45:04Steph's not the only one welcoming new opportunities.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06Women, come and join us!
0:45:06 > 0:45:08High-profile campaigns for equality
0:45:08 > 0:45:11were starting to make a real difference to women's lives.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13I think it's absolutely tremendous.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15Women are coming together and they want a change.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19The recent introduction of an Equal Pay Act
0:45:19 > 0:45:22and the Sex Discrimination Act provided encouragement that the
0:45:22 > 0:45:25days of the housebound housewife may at last becoming to an end.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31It's not exactly stretching the mind, but it's lovely to be out.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36In my little, womblike office at the library.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38So, yeah, I am actually smiling. I like it.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43BLEEPING
0:45:43 > 0:45:45- Yeah! Ha-ha!- Oh, no!
0:45:45 > 0:45:47And with another wage coming in,
0:45:47 > 0:45:52- there's enough money for the latest in '70s home entertainment.- Aw!
0:45:52 > 0:45:55- How would the trailer for this game be like?- Trailer!
0:45:55 > 0:45:58- They'd have a family there going... - GASPS
0:45:58 > 0:46:00Looking really amazed by it all.
0:46:00 > 0:46:04And rightly so, because this is the first computer game.
0:46:04 > 0:46:053-0.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10This is actually kind of difficult.
0:46:10 > 0:46:114-0.
0:46:11 > 0:46:12No, no, no!
0:46:12 > 0:46:15- I'm changing the game! - No, don't change it halfway through.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18I did actually play this to death when I was a kid.
0:46:18 > 0:46:22I mean, I played it and played it and played it and played it.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24I want my laptop back now.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28This basic game that we're looking at here, one can turn it
0:46:28 > 0:46:32into a football game, one can turn it into a basketball game.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35If you have your way, nobody will be watching TV, they'll be playing ball games!
0:46:35 > 0:46:37- Oh, I say! - Would you like to serve to me?
0:46:37 > 0:46:39No, I'm absolutely duff at it.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:46:42 > 0:46:45It's Seth's first taste of videogames technology,
0:46:45 > 0:46:46and a sign of things to come.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48Bye, Dad!
0:46:48 > 0:46:51He might be playing on a British console, but foreign
0:46:51 > 0:46:55expertise was challenging the notion that buying British is best.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Just a decade earlier, a survey had asked Brits to name
0:47:00 > 0:47:03the country they'd least like to buy from.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05Japan topped the poll.
0:47:05 > 0:47:07- Bend your knees.- Bend my knees.
0:47:07 > 0:47:10But now, British consumers were waking up
0:47:10 > 0:47:12to what Japanese manufacturers have to offer.
0:47:14 > 0:47:18And their innovative and affordable technology began to fill our homes.
0:47:20 > 0:47:25Like this family in London, who paid £55.15 for an imported stereo.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31- ALL GASP - Aw, look at this!
0:47:31 > 0:47:34- Quick, move the box.- Out the way.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36This is the exciting thing.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39- IRONIC GASP - A cassette player(!)
0:47:39 > 0:47:42Oh, it's got the radio as well. It's a music system, isn't it?
0:47:42 > 0:47:45With that one we've got a separate amp, but this is all in one.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47Why is there a record player?
0:47:47 > 0:47:49So the record, you play the record
0:47:49 > 0:47:51and you can record it straight onto tape.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54Yeah! And then you stop it, stop the tape, you put another record on,
0:47:54 > 0:47:56- so you play your next song... - That is awesome!
0:47:56 > 0:47:58It's like the start of mixing.
0:47:58 > 0:48:02I'm going to make a mix of Pink Floyd and Santana.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Mash it up a bit, you know? I think that'd be really cool.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06There we go. I'm on BBC now.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08MUSIC: Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees
0:48:08 > 0:48:09ALL: Oh, yeah!
0:48:12 > 0:48:14- I can't do groovy dancing to this. - Just follow your dad.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16Follow my lead!
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Back in the '50s, the lounge had been a place of quiet reflection
0:48:19 > 0:48:21and the occasional piano recital.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25But by the '70s, anything goes.
0:48:29 > 0:48:30And turn.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35And to the sky! Pow!
0:48:37 > 0:48:41- SETH:- Today I actually managed to get a computer game!
0:48:41 > 0:48:45It's something I wasn't actually expecting in the '70s,
0:48:45 > 0:48:48but actually, now it's here, I'm really excited.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50So I'm hoping for a lot more technology,
0:48:50 > 0:48:52and better technology in the '80s.
0:48:52 > 0:48:56And that's just basically what I'm hoping for.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59And better video games to play, and an Atari.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01Cos that'll be nice.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03That's... Yeah.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05While I eat my butterscotch...
0:49:07 > 0:49:09..Angel Delight.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Whoa. Amazing.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17I went to work today!
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Part-time job in the library.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23That's quite fun, lovely to be out.
0:49:23 > 0:49:28It was odd being away from the family.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30But actually a more normal thing for me,
0:49:30 > 0:49:32because I spend a lot of time separated from the family.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36But I'm sure a lot of women in the '70s would have been
0:49:36 > 0:49:40really worrying about how the troops were getting on at home,
0:49:40 > 0:49:42and whether they were burning the house down.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45ROB WHISTLES STAYIN' ALIVE
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Now Steph's at work,
0:49:49 > 0:49:52Rob can get back in the kitchen for the first time.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Albeit only in his Marigolds.
0:49:55 > 0:49:57Yes, it's Friday, and it's Crackerjack!
0:49:57 > 0:49:59- AUDIENCE:- Crackerjack!
0:50:00 > 0:50:05What the heck's... What type of a name is Crackerjack?
0:50:05 > 0:50:08In cricket, what does lbw stand for?
0:50:08 > 0:50:09Leg before wicket.
0:50:09 > 0:50:10Leg before wicket, well done!
0:50:10 > 0:50:12They've given the kids toilet rolls!
0:50:12 > 0:50:14That's not a prize!
0:50:14 > 0:50:17They are just the dumbest prizes I've ever seen.
0:50:21 > 0:50:25For Daisy, Friday night's a chance to let loose.
0:50:25 > 0:50:26This is so much fun!
0:50:29 > 0:50:32In 1978, a new phenomenon hit our shores,
0:50:32 > 0:50:35all the way from the USA - roller disco.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44Skating had been popular since the '30s,
0:50:44 > 0:50:46but now it had its own soundtrack.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49MUSIC: Everybody Dance by Chic
0:50:56 > 0:50:59Radio One DJ Trevor Nelson was a teenager growing up
0:50:59 > 0:51:01in North London in the late '70s.
0:51:03 > 0:51:04I was brought up in Hackney,
0:51:04 > 0:51:06which was very black, Asian, Jewish - everything.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09- Yeah, so multicultural.- Lovely, multicultural era. I loved it.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12In Hackney, I felt that the whole world was like this.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15But I realised, when I first went out of London, it's not like this.
0:51:15 > 0:51:18Mass immigration was changing the face of the nation.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20Particularly in our inner cities.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25The Britain that young people were growing up in
0:51:25 > 0:51:28was a world away from that of their parents' generation.
0:51:28 > 0:51:33In the late '70s, I'm 13, I used to wonder what I'm doing here?
0:51:33 > 0:51:36A black kid in white England? How did I get here?
0:51:36 > 0:51:40When you grow up, will it matter to you what colour somebody is, do you think?
0:51:40 > 0:51:42- I don't think so. - ALL: No.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44What I look for is a kind heart.
0:51:46 > 0:51:50But not everyone's attitudes were always so enlightened.
0:51:50 > 0:51:54Britain in the '70s remained rife with racial tension.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58People are really rather afraid that this country might be
0:51:58 > 0:52:01rather swamped by people with a different culture.
0:52:01 > 0:52:04If you want good race relations,
0:52:04 > 0:52:07you've got to allay people's fears on numbers.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11For all the tough talk, the number of immigrants
0:52:11 > 0:52:14in the late '70s had actually already started to fall.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19And although Britain's racial mix may not have been popular
0:52:19 > 0:52:22with everyone, there were signs of a more harmonious future.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30Went to a school where I was in a minority.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33But the way I connected with a lot of these guys was through music.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35Kind of prepared me for life.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37And the one thing I had to say in a burgeoning
0:52:37 > 0:52:41multicultural world, was music mixed the races more than anything else.
0:52:41 > 0:52:42Especially when you're young.
0:52:42 > 0:52:46When a disco tune was on, I think everybody was just dancing and feeling free.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50MUSIC: Ladies' Night by Kool and the Gang
0:52:57 > 0:53:01The only thing I'd say about disco, I didn't like the fashion.
0:53:01 > 0:53:02- Really?- No.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04- I love the white suit that John Travolta wears.- No!
0:53:04 > 0:53:06- I hated the fashion.- Really?!
0:53:06 > 0:53:09Collars out here, flares, men wearing platforms.
0:53:09 > 0:53:12- Are you saying you hate what I'm wearing?- No, for women, fine.
0:53:12 > 0:53:16It was the first time I saw white men trying to get hair like black men.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18White men with Afros, let's be honest.
0:53:21 > 0:53:22Do the wave! Do the wave!
0:53:27 > 0:53:28Erm...
0:53:30 > 0:53:33Sorry. Disco, 1978.
0:53:33 > 0:53:38It was awesome, loved every minute of it, it was so much fun.
0:53:38 > 0:53:41It was something different, because most of the time,
0:53:41 > 0:53:44my friends and I are just dancing in a corner.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47But this time we were properly skating, it was so much fun.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49So, yay for 1978!
0:53:52 > 0:53:54They see me rolling...
0:53:59 > 0:54:00Whoo-hoo!
0:54:01 > 0:54:05It's 1979, and the Ashby-Hawkins have invited friends and family over
0:54:05 > 0:54:07to mark the end of the decade.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13- Shot glass number two.- There we go.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15I'm finishing off the party food.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18Very colourful. Lots of stuff on sticks.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20Beef crisps.
0:54:20 > 0:54:24And the piece de resistance really is the pate in aspic.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26Hey!
0:54:26 > 0:54:29- Hello, parents!- Hiya! - Hello, Mum, you all right?- Yes!
0:54:32 > 0:54:35- I like the Access card. - The flexible friend!
0:54:35 > 0:54:38- Is that your mortgage? - That is my mortgage, yeah.- My God!
0:54:38 > 0:54:41£5,000 mortgage. 20 years.
0:54:41 > 0:54:42- Five grand?!- For this house?
0:54:46 > 0:54:48It's the bull's-eye!
0:54:48 > 0:54:49I've come along too -
0:54:49 > 0:54:53a chance to try out Rob's homebrew and the '70s buffet.
0:54:53 > 0:54:58Duck and orange pate in aspic, with tinned mandarin segments in it.
0:54:58 > 0:54:59I'm sure you'll love it.
0:54:59 > 0:55:01I actually thought that was a placemat.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06Rob's prepared some classic '70s entertainment -
0:55:06 > 0:55:07a slideshow.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11CHEERING
0:55:15 > 0:55:16ALL: Aw!
0:55:16 > 0:55:18- That's a selfie, isn't it? - Yes, that's a selfie.
0:55:20 > 0:55:22Aw, there's Stephanie, there.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Blending with the sofa, very nice.
0:55:25 > 0:55:29So it looks to me like the '70s was a better decade for you and your family?
0:55:29 > 0:55:32- I loved it. - Yeah, '70s was fantastic.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35One of the things we wanted to do was spend more time with the kids
0:55:35 > 0:55:37and strengthen our relationship.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40And I think it's genuinely done that in the '70s.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42So I think, as a family, it's made us closer.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44Why do you think that was?
0:55:44 > 0:55:47- Do you remember it being that great the first time around?- I loved it.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48My childhood was the '70s.
0:55:48 > 0:55:50I was lucky to have a really happy childhood.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52And it was great second time around.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56I think a lot of it is to do with the fact that we danced a lot.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00So, kids, the '70s - surely a better decade for you?
0:56:00 > 0:56:03The '70s has been amazing.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07I've actually got closer to Seth in the '70s.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09I've spent way more time with you,
0:56:09 > 0:56:11we've done a lot more stuff together, whereas in the '50s
0:56:11 > 0:56:14and '60s I spent no time with pretty much... no-one in the family.
0:56:14 > 0:56:18So definitely closer to Seth, with doing activities.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20I reckon this was the best decade of all.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23It was a lot more entertaining, there was technology -
0:56:23 > 0:56:24which was pretty bad,
0:56:24 > 0:56:28but it's in hope of better technology in the future.
0:56:28 > 0:56:31I've enjoyed going out with my friends with no adults,
0:56:31 > 0:56:34no supervision. Just me and my friends having fun.
0:56:34 > 0:56:36- DAISY:- That's loud. - ROB:- Is this a ladies' night?
0:56:36 > 0:56:37- This is a ladies' night!- Oh, yeah!
0:56:43 > 0:56:46I think they're quite obviously having the time of their lives so far.
0:56:46 > 0:56:50There seems to be something for everyone.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53Rob is living la dolce vita,
0:56:53 > 0:56:55Steph gets to go out for work and be a modern woman.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58For Seth, there's a little bit of technology.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01For Daisy there's, even better than the '60s, the music and the fashion.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06They haven't yet gone over the tipping point of mobile phones
0:57:06 > 0:57:09and screens everywhere, where we lost a little bit of something.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12The family seem to be closer together, they're boogying.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14They're just really sorry that it's over.
0:57:14 > 0:57:18# It's ladies' night, oh, what a night! #
0:57:18 > 0:57:21I don't want the '70s to end. I want them to remain here forever.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24I don't want to go back to contemporary life.
0:57:24 > 0:57:26The '70s, we did loads of stuff together!
0:57:26 > 0:57:28And that's what it was all about for us -
0:57:28 > 0:57:30leisure time and pleasure time together.
0:57:30 > 0:57:35I think it's the closest we've ever been as a family before.
0:57:35 > 0:57:40I said when I started this that I wanted to create memories.
0:57:40 > 0:57:41We have.
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I'm really emotional, It's ridiculous!
0:57:44 > 0:57:45It's really good.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48It's happy, happy crying, though.
0:57:48 > 0:57:49Fabulous.
0:57:49 > 0:57:53MUSIC: Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now by McFadden & Whitehead
0:58:05 > 0:58:06Next time:
0:58:08 > 0:58:10Read the instructions!
0:58:10 > 0:58:12The family's leisure options multiply.
0:58:12 > 0:58:13What's that?
0:58:13 > 0:58:15You must have hit the shift key.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19I want to go to a rave, like, right now.
0:58:19 > 0:58:23In the decade when good taste was everything.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26- No, no, no!- No!
0:58:26 > 0:58:28Daisy, stop it!
0:58:28 > 0:58:29We've got to live in here!
0:58:31 > 0:58:35# Ain't no stopping us now
0:58:35 > 0:58:36# We've got the groove
0:58:40 > 0:58:44# There's been so many things that's held us down
0:58:44 > 0:58:48# But now it looks like things are finally coming around
0:58:48 > 0:58:53# I know we've got a long, long way to go
0:58:53 > 0:58:56# And where we'll end up, I don't know... #