Season 1
(2005)
Overview
Twelve-part series in which five experts, archaeologists and historians take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I.
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Episodes
September 0.0
August 19, 2005
Reality series in which archaeologists and historians reconstruct a 17th-century farm and maintain it for a year. Each …
October 0.0
August 26, 2005
The pressure of 17th-century living mounts as the farmers race to harvest a crop of pears, and try to build a shelter f…
November 0.0
September 2, 2005
Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn make a wattle-and-daub wall for the cowshed, and a slaughterman arrives to kill the male …
December 0.0
September 9, 2005
The historians and archaeologists try to take time out of their busy farming schedule to celebrate a 17th-century Chris…
January 0.0
September 16, 2005
There's little food to be harvested in January, so a meal is created using the ham that's been preserved since Arthur t…
February 0.0
September 23, 2005
A storm leaves the toilet damaged, so the team face the unenviable task of building another from scratch, while explain…
March 0.0
September 30, 2005
Spring arrives, bringing the promise of longer days and respite from the cold weather. The farmers begin to sow seeds a…
April 0.0
October 7, 2005
The farmers give the house a spring clean, sweeping the chimney with a holly bush and dusting the place with a goose wi…
May 0.0
October 14, 2005
Alex and Fonz work overtime catching up on the spring sowing, opting to cut the furrows with their period breast plough…
June 0.0
October 21, 2005
Alex and Fonz face the daunting task of washing and shearing the sheep by hand, and are less than impressed with their …
July 0.0
October 28, 2005
The women make the most of the July weather by washing all the clothes and bedsheets in 'lye' - a mixture of ashes, wat…
August 0.0
November 4, 2005
The arrival of August sends the group into a frenzy of agricultural work as they prepare to leave, cutting the wheat an…