The Supersizers...

The Supersizers...

20081h 0m7.8/10
DocumentaryComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.8/10(4)

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by.

Production

Silver River Productions

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

May 20, 2008

Last Aired

July 27, 2009

Networks

BBC Two

Available in Your Library
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
Wartime
E1
Wartime
Air date: 2008-05-20
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins grab their ration books for one week and chomp their way through the food of 1940s WWII Britain. During blackouts and air raids they eat spam and dried egg, have some GI's round for tea and see what Churchill was eating in his Cabinet War Rooms.
Restoration
E2
Restoration
Air date: 2008-05-27
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins try the food of Restoration Britain in the 1660's. They snack on coxcombs, eel pie and copious amounts of small beer.
Victorian
E3
Victorian
Air date: 2008-06-03
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and Writer and performer Sue Perkins spend the week on the diet of a wealthy Victorian couple. Cooking for them at home is best selling cookery writer Sophie Grigson. As Giles dons top hat and waxed moustache, Sue dresses up in tight corset and outrageously wide skirts.
Seventies
E4
Seventies
Air date: 2008-06-10
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of their childhood in the 1970s. Cooking for them at home is top chef Mark Hix. Giles grows his sideburns, and Sue dons a wig of long hair as they dress in their flares and bright colours to go down memory lane.
Elizabethan
E5
Elizabethan
Air date: 2008-06-17
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. Cooking for them at home is top chef Paul Merrett. Giles puts on his codpiece and Sue makes up like Queen Bess.
Regency
E6
Regency
Air date: 2008-06-24
Restaurant Critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week on a diet spanning the Regency Years of 1789 - 1821. With the wonderful Rosemary Shrager cooking for them at their country manor house, they enjoy the full trappings of the landed gentry. Dressing as a Jane Austen heroine, Sue is on a mission to find a husband, while Giles indulges in being a dandy.

Cast

Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins

Self - Presenter

Giles Coren

Giles Coren

Self - Presenter

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