Frontier House
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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 homesteaders 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.
Frontier House was the result of the successful The 1900 House, a British series which originally aired on PBS in 2000. Manor House, Colonial House, 1940's House, and Regency House Party followed the successful series and the latest, Texas Ranch House, aired in May 2006.
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The show profiles three modern, American famiilies; the Clunes, Glenns, and Brooks. Each family faces trials and tribulations that are well documented through personal camcorders given to each family. PBS allows the show's particapants to "experience" the frontier lifestyle and interact without elaborating on relationships, allowing drama to grow through the particapants dialogue.
