Time Team (Specials)
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| Time Team Specials | |
|---|---|
| No. of episodes | 50 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Channel 4 |
| Original run | 28 December 1997 – 17 June 2012 |
This is a list of Time Team Special episodes. The first one aired on 28 December 1997, the latest on 17 June 2012.
Episodes
Specials
Main article: List of Time Team episodes
| Episode # | Special # | Episode Title | Location | Coordinates | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | "Christmas Special - Much Wenlock" | Much Wenlock, Shropshire | 28 December 1997 | |
| In this episode, the team go back to Much Wenlock in Shropshire, which they visited in the 1994 episode "The New Town of a Norman Prince", and from the Guildhall look back on previous Time Team sites to see what has happened since.[1] | |||||
| 44 | 2 | "Christmas Special - Barley Hall" | Barley Hall, York | 53°57′40″N 1°04′57″W / 53.961241°N 1.082367°W | 19 December 1999 |
| Tony Robinson presents this seasonal episode of Time Team from York's Barley Hall, where an extravagant Medieval Christmas celebration is in full swing. Looking back over previous digs, startling new evidence is revealed about one of the 'stars' unearthed on the show - a skeleton discovered during the live dig at Bawsey in Norfolk. Tony also revisits Reedham Marshes in Norfolk, to pay a special tribute to the crew of a B-17 'Flying Fortress' which crashed in February, 1944.[2] | |||||
| 45 | 3 | "The Mystery of Seahenge" | Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk | 52°58′05″N 0°31′07″E / 52.967997°N 0.518536°E | 29 December 1999 |
| In the spring of 2050 BCE, a huge oak tree was felled and its stump upturned and half-buried on a site near to what is now Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. The following year, a number of smaller oaks were felled and cut into 56 posts, which were arranged in a circle around the central stump. This Bronze-Age monument, hailed by some modern archaeologists as among the most exciting ever discovered, could have formed some kind of ceremonial site, perhaps with special astronomical or other significance. | |||||
| 59 | 4 | "The Real King Arthur" | 24 December 2000 | ||
| Once upon a time there lived a great hero and king known as Arthur - and his story is well known. Or is it? As Time Team discovers, most of what we know about Arthur is myth, the creation of imaginative writers and artful propagandists. Time Team is on a quest, searching for the truth behind the myth, mystery and multi-million-pound industry which has grown up around Arthur – the alleged 'King of the Britons'. | |||||
| 60 | 5 | "The Mystery of Mine Howe" | Tankerness, Orkney | 58°56′18″N 2°51′06″W / 58.938400°N 2.851794°W | 27 December 2000 |
| In September 1999, a local farmer rediscovered a remarkable underground structure - a flight of 17 stone steps descending to a half-landing and a further 11 steps descending to a chamber - which had been almost consigned to the annals of local folklore. The Team travels to Orkney, where local farmer Douglas Paterson went, in search of the mysterious underground chamber, said to be lost on his land after its discovery some 50 years earlier. Time Team film the excavation of the site for this years Christmas documentary. | |||||
| 70 | 6 | "Coventry's Lost Cathedral" | Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, Warwickshire | 8 March 2001 | |
| Coventry's first cathedral was thought to have been virtually obliterated by Henry VIII. But a great deal more has survived than expected. When Time Team went to Coventry in 1999, a high-status grave, discovered late on the third day could not be properly excavated. The following day, remains of a burial that had survived Henry VIII's destruction of the monastery in the 1530s were uncovered, The team went back to film the results. | |||||
| 75 | 7 | "Island of the Eels" | Ely, Cambridgeshire | 52°23′42″N 0°16′04″E / 52.395086°N 0.267727°E | 17 May 2001 |
| Time Team has been following an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a 90-minute documentary screened on 17 May. It has uncovered a remarkable picture of Ely in past centuries: channels where boats used to moor to load and unload goods; a medieval kiln with huge quantities of high-quality pottery finds; and a number of buildings fronting the road at Broad Street. | |||||
| 76 | 8 | "Dinosaur Hunting" | Dinosaur Belt, Montana, US | 47°48′40″N 112°10′56″W / 47.811155°N 112.182327°W | 30 December 2001 |
| Tony Robinson and Phil Harding travelled to the Rocky Mountains in Montana, USA, for this special programme on dinosaurs and the 'dinosaur hunters' who discover and dig up their fossil remains. The methods used by the dinosaur hunters turned out to be very similar to those employed by archaeologists. And although Phil found he was making more use of a hammer and chisel than his usual digger's trowel, there was much more with which he was familiar from archaeological excavations. After joining a museum dig to excavate the bones of the T-Rex's ancestor, they uncover the big bucks tourist industry that dinosaur hunting has spawned in the US. Their journey culminates in a trip to the Badlands, where they help dinosaur hunter Jack Horner dig up the remains of a T-Rex. | |||||
| 90 | 9 | "The Big Dig in Canterbury" | Canterbury, Kent | 51°16′37″N 1°04′54″E / 51.277013°N 1.081759°E | 15 April 2002 |
| 91 | 10 | "Londinium, The Edge of Empire" | London | 51°30′54″N 0°05′35″W / 51.514915°N 0.093061°W | 22 April 2002 |
| 92 | 11 | "The Wreck of the Colossus" | St Mary's, Isles of Scilly | 49°56′10″N 6°19′20″W / 49.935975°N 6.322117°W | 31 October 2002 |
| Tony and the Team join divers fighting to recover treasure from the wreck of the HMS Colossus and piece together the history of this 18th century warship.[3] | |||||
| 106 | 12 | "Hadrian's Well" | 10 April 2003 | ||
| 107 | 13 | "Big Dig, The Hole Story" | 29 December 2003 | ||
| 120 | 14 | "Sheffield Steel City" | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 53°23′09″N 1°27′56″W / 53.385858°N 1.465609°W 53°24′05″N 1°31′12″W / 53.401319°N 1.520046°W 53°22′55″N 1°28′31″W / 53.381912°N 1.475182°W | 22 March 2004 |
| 122 | 15 | "The House in the Loch" | Loch Tay, Perthshire | 56°34′19″N 4°04′58″W / 56.571940°N 4.082767°W | 19 April 2004 |
| 123 | 16 | "The Ten Million Pound House" | Ightham Mote, Kent | 51°15′31″N 0°16′11″E / 51.258473°N 0.269655°E | 3 May 2004 |
| 124 | 17 | "D-Day" | D-Day, Normandy | 49°19′27″N 0°35′44″W / 49.324187°N 0.595621°W | 31 May 2004 |
| 138 | 18 | "The King of Bling" | Prittlewell, Essex | 51°33′13″N 0°42′30″E / 51.553514°N 0.708365°E | 13 June 2005 |
| 139 | 19 | "Britain's Lost Roman Circus" | Colchester, Essex | 51°53′00″N 0°53′48″E / 51.883429°N 0.896732°E | 20 June 2005 |
| 140 | 20 | "Life on the Edge 1,000 Years BC" | Washingborough, Lincoln | 53°13′45″N 0°26′25″W / 53.229263°N 0.440213°W | 27 June 2005 |
| 141 | 21 | "Journey to Stonehenge" | Durrington, Wiltshire | 51°11′31″N 1°47′00″W / 51.191838°N 1.783245°W | 28 November 2005 |
| 142 | 22 | "The Big Roman Villa" | Dinnington, Somerset | 50°55′05″N 2°50′58″W / 50.918038°N 2.849563°W | 8 January 2006 |
| Time Team first discovered this Roman villa at Dinnington, Somerset in 2002 (programme shown 12 January 2003) and returned to it during the Big Roman Dig in July 2005 (programme shown live). This Special includes content from the previous programmes. | |||||
| 156 | 23 | "Buried By The Blitz" | Shoreditch Park, London | 29 October 2006 | |
| Parkland in London where terraced houses were destroyed in The Blitz | |||||
| 157 | 24 | "The Big Royal Dig" | Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Holyrood Palace | 31 December 2006 | |
| 165 | 25 | "Pugin - The God Of Gothic" | Ramsgate, Kent | 51°19′41″N 1°24′35″E / 51.328172°N 1.409773°E | 1 March 2007 |
| Tony Robinson, with the help of experts like Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud, discovers how in just 20 working years, architect Augustus Pugin changed the face of Britain | |||||
| 172 | 26 | "Britain's Drowned World" | 51°04′45″N 1°40′22″E / 51.079069°N 1.672726°E | 24 April 2007 | |
| 173 | 27 | "Jamestown: America's Birthplace" | Virginia, US | 37°12′37″N 76°46′50″W / 37.210397°N 76.780618°W | 1 May 2007 |
| 174 | 28 | "Secrets of the Stately Garden" | 27 August 2007 | ||
| 177 | 29 | "Codename: Ainsbrook" | Yorkshire | 14 January 2008 | |
| 184 | 30 | "The Real Knights of the Round Table" | Windsor Castle, Berkshire | 25 February 2008 | |
| 190 | 31 | "The Lost Dock of Liverpool" | Liverpool, Merseyside | 53°24′11″N 2°59′18″W / 53.403030°N 2.988416°W | 21 April 2008 |
| 191 | 32 | "Swords, Skulls and Strongholds" | 19 May 2008 | ||
| 192 | 33 | "The Lost WWI Bunker" | Flanders, Belgium | 50°52′19″N 2°57′34″E / 50.872053°N 2.959452°E | 10 November 2008[4] |
| 193 | 34 | "The Mystery of the Roman Treasure" | See: Sevso Treasure | 26 December 2008 | |
| 207 | 35 | "Henry VIII's Lost Palaces" | England | 13 April 2009 | |
| 208 | 36 | "The Secrets of Stonehenge" | Stonehenge, Wiltshire | 1 June 2009 | |
| 209 | 37 | "Dover Castle" | Dover, Kent | 51°07′47″N 1°19′17″E / 51.129628°N 1.321437°E | 19 December 2009 |
| 215 | 38 | "Nelson's Hospital" | Gosport, Hampshire | 50°47′10″N 1°07′26″W / 50.786°N 1.124°W | 17 May 2010 |
| In the 18th century the Royal Navy was the most successful fighting force in the world. To maintain this status it desperately needed better ways of looking after its sick and wounded, so in 1746 it decided to build the best hospital the country had ever seen, near the Portsmouth dockyard at Haslar. Costing £100,000, it was the biggest construction project in the country, and for over 250 years Haslar treated sailors from The Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War, until in 2009 the hospital closed its doors on the sick for the last time. | |||||
| 217 | 39 | "The Secrets of Westminster Abbey" | Westminster Abbey, London | 28 June 2010 | |
| 220 | 40 | "The Real Vikings" | 11 October 2010 | ||
| The Vikings are notoriously known as fearsome, axe-wielding warriors who relished their reputation as bloodthirsty invaders. But Tony and the Team paint a new and much more complex picture of these skillful and enterprising people.[5] | |||||
| 231 | 41 | "Wars of the Roses" | Bosworth, Leicestershire | 16 March 2011[6] | |
| 236 | 42 | "The Somme's Secret Weapon" | Mametz, Somme, France | 14 April 2011 | |
| Tony Robinson and team are at a dig near Mametz in France. They are there to search for the remains of a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector – a weapon believed to have been deployed for the first time on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.[7] | |||||
| 238 | 43 | "Castle of the Saxon Kings" | Bamburgh, Northumberland | 55°36′14″N 1°43′19″W / 55.60389°N 1.72194°W | 24 April 2011[8] |
| Tony and the Team help investigate the Saxon roots of Bamburgh Castle, high on rocky cliffs in Northumberland above the vast North Sea beach and with the magical island of Lindisfarne visible in the distance. | |||||
| 239 | 44 | "Looking Underground" | N/A | N/A | 1 May 2011[9] |
| Tony Robinson and geophys boffin John Gater look back over 200 digs at the extraordinary achievements of cutting-edge geophysics technology, which has uncovered lost Roman villas, tombs, temples and ancient monuments, as well as a host of old broken tractor bits and enigmatic ditches. | |||||
| 240 | 45 | "Boudica's Lost Tribe" | N/A | N/A | 4 May 2011 |
| Boudica is revered as one of the greatest female warriors in history. Tony Robinson traces her story and follows a major excavation in Norfolk that may hold the key to uncovering what happened to Boudica's tribe after they were defeated by the Roman army. | |||||
| 241 | 46 | "The Way We Lived" | N/A | N/A | 8 May 2011[10] |
| Tony Robinson and Mick Aston dig out the best bits of over 200 Time Team episodes to tell the story of how our domestic lives have changed over 10 millennia. | |||||
| 242 | 47 | "Brunel's Last Launch" | N/A | N/A | 10 November 2011 |
| Tony joins archaeologists as they discover why what went wrong with Brunel's SS Great Eastern in 1858. | |||||
| 251 | 48 | "Searching for Shakespeare's House" | Stratford-upon-Avon | N/A | 11 March 2012 |
| The team go in search of the home of William Shakespeare. | |||||
| 255 | 49 | "Secrets of the Saxon Gold" | See: Staffordshire Hoard | N/A | 22 April 2012 |
| An investigation of the Anglo-Saxon treasure discovered in Staffordshire in 2009. | |||||
| 258 | 50 | "Rediscovering Ancient Britain" | South Dorset Ridgeway, Dorset | N/A | 17 June 2012 |
| The Time Team journeys along the length of the South Dorset Ridgeway and explores thousands of years of human occupation.[11] | |||||
| 272 | 51 | "Britain's Stone Age Tsunami" | N/A | N/A | 30 May 2013 |
| Tony Robinson reveals astonishing new evidence that shows how, 8000 years ago, a huge tsunami swamped the east coast of Britain.[12] | |||||
| 273 | 52 | "The Secret of Lincoln Jail" | N/A | N/A | 30 June 2013 |
| The team gain access to Lincoln's castle, its medieval dungeons and Victorian and Georgian jails.[13] | |||||
| 274 | 53 | "The Lost Submarine of WWI" | N/A | N/A | 7 July 2013 |
| Sir Tony Robinson joins forces with expert diver and historian Innes McCartney to uncover the experimental origins of Britain's Submarine Service.[14] | |||||
| 275 | 54 | "1066: The Lost Battlefield" | Battle, East Sussex, England | N/A | 1 December 2013 |
| Sir Tony Robinson looks for where the Battle of Hastings was really fought. | |||||
See also
- Time Team Live
- Time Team History Hunters
- Time Team Digs
- Time Team Extra
- Time Team America
- Time Team Others
References
- ↑ "Time Team Special 01: Much Wenlock, Shropshire". Unofficial Time Team Site. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials". Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Wreck of the Colossus - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Lost WWI Bunker - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Real Vikings - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - Wars of the Roses - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ↑ "Time Team Special 42: The Somme's Secret Weapon". Unofficial Time Team Site. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - Castle of the Saxon Kings - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - Looking Underground - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Way We Lived - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - Rediscovering Ancient Britain - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - Britain's Stone Age Tsunami - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Secret of Lincoln Jail - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ↑ "Time Team Specials - The Lost Submarine of WWI - Channel 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
External links
- Time Team at Channel4.com
- The Unofficial Time Team site Fan site
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