BBC Two 1978 1 season 12 eps Ended

Living in the Past

1978 1 season 12 eps

Season 1

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Season 1

50 min

S1 · E1 · Feb 23, 1978

March Episode 1

The Archaeological background. Building the settlement.

50 min

S1 · E2 · Mar 2, 1978

April Episode 2

Difficulties and delays.

50 min

S1 · E3 · Mar 9, 1978

May Episode 3

Spring at last.

50 min

S1 · E4 · Mar 16, 1978

June Episode 4

Learning to be self-sufficient.

50 min

S1 · E5 · Mar 23, 1978

July Episode 5

The first signs of strain appear in the group's relationship with one another. They have problems with their livestock, but some successes as well.

50 min

S1 · E6 · Mar 30, 1978

August Episode 6

Fun and games for the Celtic Festival of Lugnatha-a prehistoric August Bank Holiday. Harvest time begins and one of the group goes missing.

50 min

S1 · E7 · Apr 6, 1978

September Episode 7

The group take in the harvest and run into more problems. They kill a pig and begin preparing for the winter.

50 min

S1 · E8 · Apr 13, 1978

October Episode 8

The village has a disastrous crop failure. They train cattle, make clothes and shoes and deal with minor cuts and injuries.

50 min

S1 · E9 · Apr 20, 1978

November Episode 9

The villagers celebrate the Celtic festival of Samhain, better known today as Bonfire Night. They burn a wicker man and enact a play with the spirits of darkness.

50 min

S1 · E10 · Apr 27, 1978

December Episode 10

The Iron Age village prepares for the winter. Lindsay and Peter return home with the children and the others regret their departure. The villagers experiment with metal working.

50 min

S1 · E11 · May 4, 1978

January Episode 11

The Iron Age village in winter. The group begin to master the skills of working iron and weaving. They talk about the lack of leadership and the lack of privacy in the Round House.

50 min

S1 · E12 · May 11, 1978

February Episode 12

The Iron Age village during the closing weeks of the project. The group talk about the skills they have attained and their feelings about returning to the outside world. The archaeologists take over and give an assessment of the project as a whole, its failures and its successes.

12 episodes in Season 1

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A group of young people live and work on a replica of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement at a secret location in the West of England. Cut off from the modern world, the group try to re-create the way of life of Celtic tribesmen in the third century BC.

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Total runtime 10h 0m · Episode length 50 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

February 23, 1978

Final episode

May 11, 1978

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Documentary

Episode length

50 min

Total runtime

10h 0m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

Produced in

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

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