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Airdate: Back in Time for the Corner Shop

The Ferrones are back, now running a milk bar in ABC's living history series.

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Annabel Crabb and the Ferrone family will return to screens in early March with Back In Time For The Corner Shop, -the third iteration of ABC’s Back in Time living history franchise.

The five-part series sees the popular family – Carol and Peter Ferrone and children Julian, Sienna and Olivia – fronting a corner store / general store / milk bar, emulating periods from the late 1850s to the 1990s.

Special guests this season include Jeff Fatt, John Doyle, Lex Marinos, Ita Buttrose, Linda Burney, Pam Burridge and Craig Foster.

The 5 part series is produced by Warner Bros. Australia.

For more than 100 years the Australian corner shop was an institution for millions of Australians. More than a simple shop, it was the heart of many neighbourhoods. These days you can buy anything with the click of a button, but nothing replaces that memory of walking into your corner shop to spend pocket money on lollies or having a chat while grabbing a loaf of bread.

So, in this series of Back In Time For The Corner Shop, Annabel Crabb is on hand to help Carol and Peter Ferrone and their children Julian, Sienna and Olivia navigate the highs and lows of being shopkeepers through 150 years of Australian history. Adding to their time travelling challenge, the Ferrone family will go further back in time than they’ve ever been before, starting their adventure in the 1850s.

Back In Time For The Corner Shop was filmed in a close knit suburban community in Botany, Sydney, on a site that was a corner shop for many years up until its closure in 2016. For the first time in the series’ history, filming involved members of the public who were able to shop with the Ferrones and share in the ‘time travel’ experience.

From the 1850s to the 1990s, Back In Time For The Corner Shop charts the social, economic and historic changes that shape how we shop, live and connect as a community. And we see how the role of the corner shop has shifted, and its status as a community hub has changed.

In 2018, Australia first fell in love with the Ferrone family when they discovered the trials and joys of living through 60 years of Australian history from the 1950s to present day in the hit series Back In Time For Dinner. In Further Back In Time For Dinner the Ferrones lived, cooked and ate their way from Federation to the 1940s.

Production Credits: Produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production for the ABC. Warner Bros. Head of Entertainment Caroline Swift. Warner Bros. Supervising Executive Producer Nicole Rogers. Executive Producer Clare Bath. ABC Acting Head of Factual Richard Huddleston. ABC Factual Manager Julie Hanna. ABC Executive Producer Madeleine Hawcroft.

8pm Tuesday March 7 on ABC.

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  2. Ah, my life in pictures..and milkshakes were at the milk bar…not the corner store….I loved my corner store….the little green wood and glass lolly cabinet….and a huge sixpenny bag of broken biscuits from the Arnotts and Peek Freans biscuit tins….Love these series and this family….yep, I agree…great casting!

  3. I am really really looking forward to this. I miss the good old milk bar . Gosh the memories of walking in and getting a mixed bag of lollies and choosing what you wanted.

  4. The Ferrone family was/is the epitome of great casting; I hope whoever discovered them received the plaudits they deserved.
    And the fact the Ferrones haven’t exploited their fame is a testament to their good sense.

  5. Progressed to highly processed foods that are cheap but killing us? My memories only go back to milkshakes, Splices, mixed lollies, 25g packs of chips and packs of Queen’s Slipper playing cards.
    I have seen the UK version and have been looking forward to the Australian version for ages, it was announced back in 2021 for 2022, and they filmed it April 2022.

    1. Treasure those memories because it’s probably only going to get worse. Downsizing packages and the prices are still going up. “Down, Down” and “Good Food People” what a joke.

  6. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. Especially learning the history of how daily life was way back when from over 100 years ago, to recent times. I am watching this version as well as i spent most of my life living next door to a corner shop, which sold newspapers, tin foods, magazines, eggs, milk, freezer foods, pet food, lollies, fruit and veg, etc. This show will bring back plenty of memories.

  7. Even though this is a take off from the UK series Lifestyle channel had, it will be interesting to see how Australians progressed through this time and how many ideas we adopted from the UK especially during the war years when Australia had rations and how long it took to recover, my Mum used various household items for makeup from the corner store. Cochineal for lipstick, baby oil for her legs because stockings were hard to get. In the 50s I remember going to the my Uncle’s corner store to buy cod liver oil, epsom salts and all the various potions we got stuffed/shoved down our throat (I thought was child abuse then) because the UK ideas where adopted here, my uncle used to sell meat and churn butter, paddle it into blocks to sell in his store too. I’m just glad we’ve progressed.

    1. Same here – I’ve been hanging for this!
      The first two Back in Time series were both exceptionally produced.
      The Ferrone family are brilliant – persevering with whatever is thrown at them.

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