# Help me identify this early reality-type show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-early-reality-type-show/265381 "2004-09-21T22:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-early-reality-type-show/265381/1 "2004-09-21T22:03:07Z")
Back in the late 70’s, early 80’s I watched a series of programs that were a sort of reality show about a young farm couple. I can’t remember if it was on PBS or not, and it didn’t seem to be scripted, but I could be wrong. The camera followed the young, I think teen-aged bride around as she dealt with getting used to being married, budgeting, getting a job, paying bills, dealing with farm bureaus, coping with her young husband and his family. The one episode I remember most clearly had to do with getting her husband and his male relatives to eat more vegetables. The guys were strictly meat-and-potatoes, and she made a bet with them that she could them to eat veggies and like it. She tricked them by making a chocolate zucchini cake for dessert (I remember this so well because I had a similar favorite recipe) and she won the bet. Does anyone remember this show? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-early-reality-type-show/265381/2 "2004-09-22T02:23:02Z")
Do you mean [The Farmer’s Wife](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/farmerswife/)? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-early-reality-type-show/265381/3 "2004-09-22T03:41:05Z")
No, don’t think so…I know it was on in the early 80’s. Though I may have transposed the scene where she went into town to work things out with the creditors with “the Farmer’s Wife”. The show I remember had a very young blonde girl.