Frontier House was an educational reality TV type series that originally aired on PBS in April of 2002. The show, which was filmed over the course of five months, followed the lives of three family groups that agreed to live as settlers did on the American frontier in the 1880s. Each family was given a 160 acre plot of land and completed all the tasks that would have been absolutely necessary for a settler. These tasks included building a log cabin, planting food, tending livestock, harvesting, and preparing for the winter months. Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...
Frontier House was the result of the successful The 1900 House, an earlier series which originally aired on PBS in 2000. Manor House and Colonial House followed the successful series and the latest, Texas Ranch House, has yet to be aired. The 1900 House is a historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. ... A manor house is a country house, which has historically formed the centre of a manor (see Manorialism). ...
The Montana Heritage Commission has contracted with the producers of "The FrontierHouse" to acquire the artifacts used in filming this three-part series of exploration of life on the 1883 Montana frontier.
FrontierHouse, a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Wall To Wall Television in association with Channel 4 (U.K.), premiered April 29-May 1, 2002 on PBS (watch local listings for re-air dates).
The crew and cast of FrontierHouse spent most of 2001 in Montana filming the series in which three modern day families time-travel back to live as they would have on the 1883 Rocky Mountain frontier.
After the success of "The 1900 House," a short-run series that saw a family of modern Britons live as people did at the turn of the century, PBS seeks to replicate its success by sending three families to live on the 1883 Montana prairie in "FrontierHouse" (9 p.m.
Like its predecessor, the six-hour "FrontierHouse" miniseries is a mildly educational and sometimes entertaining docudrama that shows the warts and all outcome of throwing families together in a setting that's a decent approximation of the past.
During the PBS press conference for "FrontierHouse," participants in the series said their virtual trip back in time made them miss friends, hot running water, baseball scores and mobility.
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