1900 House
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Vanillarose | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 05:59 pm     i just wondered if anyone else has been watching 1900 House??? It's actually the British precursor the Frontier House. A British family was picked to live in an authentically restored Victorian house. It's a really interesting show. I hope that there are other fans out there, too!!! |
Hummingbird | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 09:33 pm     When is it on? I love those shows. I was glued to TV during Frontier House. The Clunes were my favorites. Is 1900 House the same one that was on a year or so ago or is it a new one? |
Vanillarose | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 11:01 pm     I think it's the same one that was on a year ago. The family's name is the Bowlers. They seem like an interesting family. It may have aired before, but this is the first time I've ever seen it.It's great!!! My favorite family from Frontier House were the newlyweds. I thought they handled themselves beautifully, while I couldn't stand the whining of Gordon Clune and Karen Glenn. BTW, a brand new series, Colonial House is going to be airing soon. Watch for it!! |
Muse | Monday, September 09, 2002 - 11:34 am     There's also going to be a 1940's House on PBS. I'm looking forward to it. I really liked 1900 House and the people on it. Well, except maybe for the older daughter. She whined a bit too much for me...although that's not to say that I wouldn't have done the same thing if I were in her shoes. Mrs. Bowler and the maid situation was kind of odd, too. I think I liked Frontier House even better than 1900 House...seemed like they presented more information about the era (as opposed to just the living conditions), which I found interesting. And I loved Nate and his father...such good attitudes about the whole thing. Could've done without the bickering between the families, but I guess that was their attempt to add "drama". After all, I seriously doubt that the casting people had no idea that the Clunes wouldn't handle it well, that Karen Glenn was overly critical, and that the Glenn marriage was on the rocks. |
Hummingbird | Monday, September 09, 2002 - 08:43 pm     I loved the Clune girls because they were so modern-day and like anyone's teenage daughters thrown in a time warp. And those little Clune boys were adorable. I liked Gordon because he was the type of enterprenour who just might have made it out there by his wits alone. Selling homemade brew and scavaging just might have been as inovative a way to make it through hard times as following the rules of society. The early settlers who made it were not the average kind of human. Thet were a tough and oportunistic lot. Of course the newlyweds were everyone's favorite because they were so nice. They were hard workers too and started with less than anyone else. |
Oregonfire | Friday, September 20, 2002 - 12:09 pm     I saw most of 1900 house when it orginally ran and watched some of it again recently (on tape). I liked the travails of the Maid-of-all-Work or whatever she was called. I liked especially when they smuggled in shampoo from the outside. I would not be able to deal without shampoo either. I hope they rerun Frontier House because I missed the whole thing. |
Laura11103 | Monday, September 23, 2002 - 08:20 pm     Please let us know if you can when any of these shows are on, I'd love to catch them :-) |
Vanillarose | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 08:08 pm     laura, I'm not sure whe they'll be on again. 1900 House just ended here. It was only 4 episodes long. Look out for Colonial House and 1940 House. I think they're supposed to be starting pretty soon. Muse...I loved the Bowlers, especially the twins. They seemed so sweet, helpful, and adaptable. I think they gained the most from the experience. I really liked Joyce, too. She seemed to intellectualize the experience, which, I think made it more difficult for her. She di I totally understood her guilt feelings about hiring Elizabeth. I learned a lot from this series...some of which, I suppose, should have been obvious; but it jsut never occured to me until now that thre Womens' Rights Movement started because Victorian women were freed up from doing so much domestic work and had the time to see that they were not being treated equal to men and to try to work to improve the situation. |
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