I haven't seen "Primitive Technology" but the oft aired PBS-hosted series "Alone in the Wilderness" sounds like it did comparable things for me. The impact of watching a man build a cabin with only hand tools and using no electricity alone in the Alaskan interior, here narrated in the gentle voice of Dick Proenneke, left me with an appreciation for the self-reliance and craft of a day long gone.

http://www.aloneinthewilderness.com/