England's Channel 4 got in on the reality television craze with this mini-series. Combining family values with the formats of MTV's THE REAL WORLD and public television's educational programming, this time travel experiment put a modern 2002 family, the Hymers, in a home in the 1940s and submits three generations of Hymers to the hardships of wartime Britain. Among the difficulties they must endure are food rations and bombing raid exercises.