As well as wearing unattractive 19th-century clothes, the first families - the Doiges from Essex and the Mills family from Twickenham - must get to grips with skills they've not had much use for in the modern world, like spinning wool and haymaking.
The Doige family from Essex play against the Mills family from Twickenham. It's the second day and the mums make traditional Victorian damson butter, the dads get a driving lesson on a horse and cart, and the girls compete in the popular Victorian pastime of archery.
The Doige family from Essex are neck and neck with the Mills family from Twickenham, having won one day each. The dads take on one of the farm's most important jobs - haymaking, using old-fashioned scythes. Meanwhile the mums make brooms using local wood and the children make vegetable soup.
The Doige family from Essex go head-to-head with the Mills family from Twickenham in a full-on muckspreading challenge, the mums learn just how exhausting Victorian housework was, and the four girls learn how to be milk maids. Can these fashion-conscious modern girls enjoy hand-milking Snowdrop?
It's the day of the big weekly challenge for the Doige family from Essex and the Mills family from Twickenham. They must compete to be the best sheep-farming family: cleaning, herding and selecting sheep and spinning wool. Who will win the most challenges and take home the prize?
Taking up the Escape in Time challenge this time are the Bray family from Suffolk and the Trevithick family from Cornwall. The Mums and Dads battle it out to see which pair can slice up a bucket of roots the quickest, using some Victorian machinery powered by the farm's Shire horse.
The Brays from Suffolk and the Trevithicks from Cornwall are the families competing on the farm this time. The Dads take on one of the most dangerous jobs on the farm - tree felling, and the Mums find out just how hard Victorian housewives worked when they make butter.
It is the start of another week on the Acton Scott Estate and competing on the farm this time are the Bagley family from Hunnington and the Booths from Canterbury. The Dads take on one of the most dangerous jobs on the farm - fixing a metal tyre to a cart wheel.
Competing on the farm this time are the Bray family from Suffolk and the Trevithick family from Cornwall. The Dads learn that making a gate Victorian style isn't as simple as banging a few timbers together, the Mums compete to make the best rag rug and the boys take on the girls as they make corn dollies and learn some essential farmyard chores.
It's the day of the big weekly challenge for the two families who have spent the week learning to become Victorian farmers. So far the Brays from Suffolk and the Trevithicks from Cornwall have learnt everything from milking a cow to felling a tree, and now they must compete to throw the best harvest celebration. All week they have been learning the skills that they will be tested on - bell ringing, making corn dollies and harvest loaves, and threshing and winnowing wheat with hand powered Victorian machinery. Who will win the most challenges and take home the special prize for best Victorian farming family?
Series presented by Ben Fogle in which families become Victorian farmers on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. For one week they learn the traditional skills of our farming ancestors, competing against each other. It is the start of another week on the Acton Scott Estate and competing on the farm this time are the Bagley family from Hunnington and the Booths from Canterbury. The Dads take on one of the most dangerous jobs on the farm - fixing a metal tyre to a cart wheel.
Series presented by Ben Fogle in which families become Victorian farmers on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. For one week they learn the traditional skills of our farming ancestors, competing against each other. Taking up the Escape in Time challenge this time are the Bagleys from Birmingham and the Booths from Canterbury. The children learn to drive a donkey and cart, while the Mums attempt to get to grips with an antique sewing machine.
Series presented by Ben Fogle in which families become Victorian farmers on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. For one week they learn the traditional skills of our farming ancestors, competing against each other. Taking up the Escape in Time challenge this time are the Bagleys from Birmingham and the Booths from Canterbury. The Dads get a taste of Victorian carpentry when they make a stable door for Dusty the Donkey.
Series presented by Ben Fogle in which families become Victorian farmers on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. For one week they learn the traditional skills of our farming ancestors, competing against each other. Taking up the Escape in Time challenge this time are the Bagleys from Birmingham and the Booths from Canterbury. The mothers and eldest daughters get acquainted with the Acton Scott bee colony as they extract wax to make boot polish, and the fathers go into the forge to construct an iron hook. Plus, the children are given a lesson in Victorian pest control.
Series presented by Ben Fogle in which families become Victorian farmers on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. For one week they learn the traditional skills of our farming ancestors, competing against each other. The Bagleys and the Booths must use all their new skills as the day of the big weekly challenge arrives. The tasks ahead of them test their abilities as Victorian outdoorsmen, and see them mucking out stables, grooming and tacking up the horses, as well as morris-dancing and ploughing the field.
The Degale family from Enfield, led by dad Ian - a DJ and music producer, and Team Cotswold, a family from Chipping Norton, led by mother and PR consultant Ali Beasley, take on the challenge of becoming Victorian farmers for a week on the Acton Scott Estate in Shropshire. The first day of challenges finds Ian facing his fears with the chickens, the mums being creative in the woods and the children competing in a scariest scarecrow competition.
The Degales family Enfield and the Beasleys from the Cotswolds learn traditional farming skills, with the men learning to hunt rabbits, and the women taking lessons in laundry. Plus, the children discover how Victorian youngsters entertained themselves without TV, mobile phones or videogames.
The Degales from Enfield, Middlesex, compete against the Beasleys from Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds. The mothers learn how to weave a traditional Victorian oak swill basket, the children try their hand at preparing herbal remedies with strawberries, pepper, onions and honey, while the adults try the Acton Scott cider-making equipment.
Mothers Isha Degale and Ali Beasley receive a lesson in Victorian preserving as they make traditional mincemeat, the fathers get to grips with axes to prepare wood for the range, and the children go fishing in the Acton Scott pond.
The Degales from Enfield, Middlesex, and Team Cotswold take part in the weekly challenge after spending the past five days learning Victorian skills. The two families have to host a cattle show, which includes milking and cleaning the animals, making a halter and leading them out at the event. Last in the series.