Each hour-long programme covers one decade, and the family's own kitchen, dining, and living rooms were re-designed by the TV team each week to give an accurate representation of what it was like to cook and eat then.
A special edition of the show titled Back in Time for Brixton and consisting of two episodes, aired on BBC Two in November 2016.
A sequel to the first series, titled Further Back in Time for Dinner, returns to the first family, the Robshaws, pushing them half a century earlier, beginning in 1900 and ending in 1949.
This series focuses on the food and lifestyle of working-class Northern households, exemplified by the Ellis family, from post-World War I through to the end of the 1990s.
It "follow[ed] a modern-day family of South Asian Brits Back In Time to experience what life in the city would have been like for previous generations.
Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover just how much life at school has changed over the past 100 years.
The school itself is their time machine, transporting them through seven eras of British history - from Victorian grandeur and the age of Empire through a postwar grammar, a 1960s secondary modern, and finally the dawning of the digital revolution in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Ardern family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure - going back in time to run that great British institution, the corner shop.