Name: The 1970s Supermarket
Released: 2023-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Chris Clarke, Rustie Lee

Available on Channel 5

The story of the shopping revolution, as Britain went from small behind-the-counter shops to megastores, revealing the developments that transformed supermarkets over the decade, and uncovering the truth about the products everyone loved to eat.

Documentary · 2023 · 1 hr

Starring Chris Clarke , Rustie Lee

Director Simon Newton , Mark Williams

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Discovering how the nation went crazy for convenience food and how the supermarket revolution began. At the start of the 1970s, convenience food came in cans and many of us tucked in to war-time favourite Spam.

1 hr · 16 Aug 2023
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

With package holidays broadening tastes, Marks and Spencer took a garlic gamble by introducing the ready-made chicken Kiev, and Dr Chris replicates pickled onion Monster Munch in his lab.

1 hr · 23 Aug 2023
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

How supermarket price wars hotted up in the late 70s as shoppers went bargain mad. Plus the launch on the iconic Honey Monster, and Rustie Lee makes her own version of a Fray Bentos Pie.

55 min · 30 Aug 2023