Evacuation (TV Series)

Evacuation (TV Series)

Evacuation is a television series broadcast on CBBC in the UK.

It is a reality show for children, in which six boys and six girls, all aged 12, from cities all over the UK are taken back to wartime Britain for two weeks, to live just as evacuees in World War II would have done.

The show is presented by former Blue Peter presenter Matt Baker, who in Series One occasionally steps in to speak to and/or help the children when no other adults are there and also sometimes interacts briefly with the adults during his pieces to camera. However, in Series Two, there is a slight change in the format: Matt mainly does pieces to camera (still occasionally interacting with the adults) and stays very much in the background.

Although it is a reality TV show, all the adults in the series are actors, and the children must refer to them by their character's name. (To maintain the illusion that the characters were real people, the closing credits never named the actors who played the parts.)

School teacher Miss Young is the only one of the characters to appear in both Series One and Two. Fortunately, as Evacuation is a reality TV show and not a drama, continuity between both series does not exist; the fact that she appears to be teaching both at Castle Farm and Pradoe Hall at the same time can therefore be safely overlooked.