1940 House, The

TV Shows

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