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#169
My Rating:
6
Seen It:
Yes
#169
My Rating:
6
Seen It:
Yes
USA / English
| Geoffrey Palmer | Host |
| Ben Hymers | Himself |
| Kirstie Hymers | Herself |
| Lyn Hymers | Herself |
| Michael Hymers | Himself |
| Thomas Hymers | Himself |
| Guy de la Bédoyère | Member of "The War Cabinet" (uncredited) |
| N/A | |
| Marguerite Patten | Herself |
| James Puddephatt | Dad |
| Henry Strozier | Narrator |
| Paul Bowler | Himself |
| Joseph Bowler | Himself |
| Daru Rooke | Himself |
| Hilary Bowler | Herself |
| Joyce Bowler | Herself |
| Kathryn Bowler | Herself |
| Ruth Bowler | Herself |
| Director | Caroline Ross-Pirie; N/A; Beth Hoppe |
| Producer | Alex Graham |
Assembled by the same team responsible for the reality series 1900 House and Frontier House, this three-episode endeavor challenges a 21st century British family to live under the same conditions experienced by their countrymen during the WWII years (1939-1945). Three generations of the Hymers family are crowded into an old-fashioned London flat, where they must endure such deprivations as food rationing and air-raid blackouts, as well as conduct their lives within the moral and cultural parameters of the early '40s. How well the Hymers clan fares under these restrictions is determined by a "war cabinet" made up of historians and sociologists. Originally broadcast in the U.K. in January of 2001, all three episodes of 1940s House were later broadcast on a single evening by America's PBS network. — Hal Erickson
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