Timewatch

Timewatch (1982)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • First Air Date: 1982-09-29
  • Last Air Date: 2011-11-15
  • Total Seasons: 30
  • Total Episodes: 343
  • Status: Returning Series
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Network: BBC Two
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Summary

Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.

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Timewatch Seasons

Season 0

First Air Date: 1991-08-17
12 Episodes

Season 1

First Air Date: 1982-09-29
4 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 1983-01-26
10 Episodes

Season 3

First Air Date: 1984-01-03
14 Episodes

Season 4

First Air Date: 1985-01-09
12 Episodes

Season 5

First Air Date: 1986-01-01
10 Episodes

Season 6

First Air Date: 1987-01-15
12 Episodes

Season 7

First Air Date: 1988-01-06
12 Episodes

Season 8

First Air Date: 1989-01-11
11 Episodes

Season 9

First Air Date: 1990-01-17
13 Episodes

Season 10

First Air Date: 1991-01-23
21 Episodes

Season 11

First Air Date: 1992-01-15
20 Episodes

Season 12

First Air Date: 1993-01-13
14 Episodes

Season 13

First Air Date: 1994-01-12
16 Episodes

Season 14

First Air Date: 1995-01-11
11 Episodes

Season 15

First Air Date: 1996-01-14
13 Episodes

Season 16

First Air Date: 1997-02-25
15 Episodes

Season 17

First Air Date: 1998-04-07
13 Episodes

Season 18

First Air Date: 1999-04-17
12 Episodes

Season 19

First Air Date: 2000-01-08
2 Episodes

Season 20

First Air Date: 2001-01-12
12 Episodes

Season 21

First Air Date: 2002-01-04
13 Episodes

Season 22

First Air Date: 2003-01-10
13 Episodes

Season 23

First Air Date: 2004-01-09
11 Episodes

Season 24

First Air Date: 2005-01-29
11 Episodes

Season 25

First Air Date: 2006-01-20
12 Episodes

Season 26

First Air Date: 2007-01-05
12 Episodes

Season 27

First Air Date: 2008-01-05
11 Episodes

Season 28

First Air Date: 2009-02-21
8 Episodes

Season 29

First Air Date: 2010-06-02
1 Episodes

Season 30

First Air Date: 2011-10-25
4 Episodes

Timewatch Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1982Episode 1Windsors' War60 min
Season 1982Episode 2Episode 260 min
Season 1982Episode 3Episode 360 min
Season 1982Episode 4Episode 460 min
Season 1983Episode 1Episode 160 min
Season 1983Episode 2Episode 260 min
Season 1983Episode 3Episode 360 min
Season 1983Episode 4Episode 460 min
Season 1984Episode 1Timewatch60 min
Season 1985Episode 1The Age of Charles II60 min
Season 1985Episode 2Magic Circles60 min
Season 1986Episode 1The Master Builders60 min
Season 1986Episode 2Most Dangerous Women60 min
Season 1987Episode 1Fateful Century60 min
Season 1987Episode 2Judgement in Jerusalem60 min
Season 1988Episode 1Evidence of Neglect60 min
Season 1988Episode 2Wars of the Word60 min
Season 1988Episode 3The Man in the Iron Mask60 min
Season 1988Episode 4The Hunger Winter60 min
Season 1988Episode 5Dishonour and Death60 min
Season 1988Episode 6Shreds of Evidence60 min
Season 1988Episode 7Shadow of the Ripper60 min
Season 1988Episode 8A Woman's Story60 min
Season 1988Episode 9Vision of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution60 min
Season 1988Episode 10Bukharin and the Terror60 min
Season 1989Episode 1Light in the Dark60 min
Season 1989Episode 2An Age of Empire60 min
Season 1989Episode 3Sacrifice at Pearl Harbour60 min
Season 1989Episode 4Playing with History60 min
Season 1989Episode 5Witnesses60 min
Season 1989Episode 6The Night of the Long Knives60 min
Season 1989Episode 7Summer of the Bomb60 min
Season 1989Episode 8The Land of Lost Content60 min
Season 1989Episode 9Trotsky60 min
Season 1989Episode 10Fascist Legacy: A Promise Fulfilled60 min
Season 1989Episode 11Fascist Legacy: A Pledge Betrayed60 min
Season 1990Episode 1An Edge of Conspiracy60 min
Season 1990Episode 2Napoleon's Last Battle60 min
Season 1990Episode 3Hungary: The End of Silence60 min
Season 1990Episode 4Accounts of a Forgotten Army60 min
Season 1990Episode 5Helping the Police with Their Enquiries60 min
Season 1990Episode 6The Sipán Affair60 min
Season 1990Episode 7I Don't Want to Be Remembered as a Chair60 min
Season 1990Episode 8All the King's Jews60 min
Season 1990Episode 9A War Far from Home60 min
Season 1990Episode 10One of the Reasons Why60 min
Season 1990Episode 11White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave60 min
Season 1991Episode 1Savagery and the American Indian - Wilderness60 min
Season 1991Episode 2Savagery and the American Indian - Civilisation60 min
Season 1991Episode 3The Man Who Made the Supergun60 min
Season 1991Episode 4The Reluctant Comrade60 min
Season 1991Episode 5The Transmission of Roger Bacon60 min
Season 1991Episode 6Palestine: The First Intifada60 min
Season 1991Episode 7The Cold War60 min
Season 1991Episode 8Beside Franco in Spain60 min
Season 1991Episode 9Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain60 min
Season 1991Episode 10The Columbus Conspiracy60 min
Season 1991Episode 11Harvests of Iron: The Watch on the Somme60 min
Season 1991Episode 12Harvests of Iron: The Theatre of Operations60 min
Season 1991Episode 13Suffer the Children60 min
Season 1991Episode 14The Spoils of War60 min
Season 1992Episode 1Battle of the Styles60 min
Season 1992Episode 2Kwai60 min
Season 1992Episode 3Churchill's Man?60 min
Season 1992Episode 4His Own Man60 min
Season 1992Episode 5Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back60 min
Season 1992Episode 6The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Forgotten Fatherland60 min
Season 1992Episode 7The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Mother of the Fatherland60 min
Season 1992Episode 8SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich60 min
Season 1992Episode 9Gladio: The Ringmasters60 min
Season 1992Episode 10Gladio: The Puppeteers60 min
Season 1992Episode 11Gladio: The Foot Soldiers60 min
Season 1992Episode 12The Un-Americans: Five Minutes to Midnight60 min
Season 1992Episode 13The Un-Americans: No Place to Hide60 min
Season 1992Episode 14The Un-Americans: To Hell with Truth60 min
Season 1992Episode 15A Diplomat in Japan: A Clash of Cultures60 min
Season 1992Episode 16A Diplomat in Japan: Witness to a Revolution60 min
Season 1992Episode 17Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam60 min
Season 1992Episode 18Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball60 min
Season 1992Episode 19Sold Down the River60 min
Season 1992Episode 20Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness60 min
Season 1993Episode 1Allied to the Mafia60 min
Season 1993Episode 2The Sparks that Lit the Bonfire60 min
Season 1993Episode 3The Stolen Child60 min
Season 1993Episode 4The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover60 min
Season 1993Episode 5The Pill: Prescription for Revolution60 min
Season 1993Episode 6Buffalo Bill60 min
Season 1993Episode 7Battle of the Bombers60 min
Season 1993Episode 8On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging60 min
Season 1993Episode 9True Story of the Roman Arena60 min
Season 1993Episode 10The Mother of All Battles60 min
Season 1993Episode 11Hunger Strike: A Hidden History60 min
Season 1993Episode 12Children of the Third Reich60 min
Season 1993Episode 13The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald60 min
Season 1993Episode 14Chairman Mao - The Last Emperor60 min
Season 1994Episode 1Forgotten Heroes - Merchant Seamen at War60 min
Season 1994Episode 2The Real Rasputin60 min
Season 1994Episode 3Spies in the Sky60 min
Season 1994Episode 4Presumed Guilty – A Women's History of Divorce 1945-196960 min
Season 1994Episode 5Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration60 min
Season 1994Episode 6Seeds of War60 min
Season 1994Episode 7The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition60 min
Season 1994Episode 8Hitler's Secret Weapons60 min
Season 1994Episode 9Flames of War60 min
Season 1994Episode 10Age of the Sphinx60 min
Season 1994Episode 11Krushchev – The Peasant Premier60 min
Season 1994Episode 12Memo from Machiavelli – How to Succeed in British Politics60 min
Season 1994Episode 13Typhoid Mary60 min
Season 1995Episode 1Out of the Ashes60 min
Season 1995Episode 2Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam60 min
Season 1995Episode 3The BBC in Vietnam60 min
Season 1995Episode 4The Life and Lives of Oscar Wilde60 min
Season 1995Episode 5Hitler's Death: The Final Report60 min
Season 1995Episode 6Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns60 min
Season 1995Episode 7Evidence of Vikings60 min
Season 1995Episode 8Pocahontas: Her True Story60 min
Season 1995Episode 9Kamikaze60 min
Season 1995Episode 10Quiet Revolution60 min
Season 1995Episode 11The Projection Racket60 min
Season 1995Episode 12Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WWI?60 min
Season 1996Episode 1Karnak - A Hidden History60 min
Season 1996Episode 2Russia's Secret War60 min
Season 1996Episode 3Drake's Last Voyage60 min
Season 1996Episode 4Bad Boys60 min
Season 1996Episode 5Voices of Victorian London60 min
Season 1996Episode 6Haig: The Unknown Soldier60 min
Season 1996Episode 7Hannibal and Desert Storm60 min
Season 1996Episode 8The History of a Mystery60 min
Season 1996Episode 9Gold Rush Memories60 min
Season 1996Episode 10Stalin's Foreign Slaves60 min
Season 1996Episode 11Baiting the Bear60 min
Season 1996Episode 12Remember Aberfan60 min
Season 1996Episode 13Cry Hungary60 min
Season 1997Episode 1Love Story60 min
Season 1997Episode 2Before Columbus60 min
Season 1997Episode 3Secret Memories60 min
Season 1997Episode 4The Boer War: The First Media War60 min
Season 1997Episode 5Birth Story60 min
Season 1997Episode 6Forgotten Allies60 min
Season 1997Episode 7Back to the Iron Age60 min
Season 1997Episode 8The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai60 min
Season 1997Episode 9Lords of the Maya60 min
Season 1997Episode 10Alison: A Personal History60 min
Season 1997Episode 11The Gentlemen Spies60 min
Season 1997Episode 12The African Trade60 min
Season 1997Episode 13Lenin's Secret Files60 min
Season 1997Episode 14Remember the Ugandan Asians60 min
Season 1997Episode 15In Search of Cleopatra60 min
Season 1998Episode 1Hitler and the Invasion of Britain60 min
Season 1998Episode 2Grammar School Boys60 min
Season 1998Episode 3The Oklahoma Outlaw60 min
Season 1998Episode 4The Roman Way of War60 min
Season 1998Episode 5Las Vegas and the Mormons60 min
Season 1998Episode 6Aborigine - A Collision of Conscience60 min
Season 1998Episode 7Sex and War60 min
Season 1998Episode 8Lloyd George's War60 min
Season 1998Episode 9The Pilgrim Obsession60 min
Season 1998Episode 10Banking with Hitler60 min
Season 1998Episode 11The British in India60 min
Season 1998Episode 12An American Firefight60 min
Season 1999Episode 1Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax60 min
Season 1999Episode 2The Crossing60 min
Season 1999Episode 3Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs60 min
Season 1999Episode 4The Lost Temple of Java60 min
Season 1999Episode 5Sleeping with the Enemy60 min
Season 1999Episode 6Before the Titanic60 min
Season 1999Episode 7The Forgotten Volunteers60 min
Season 1999Episode 8Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle60 min
Season 1999Episode 9The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War60 min
Season 1999Episode 10Ivan the Terrible60 min
Season 1999Episode 11Tales of the Eiffel Tower60 min
Season 1999Episode 12A Very British Mutiny60 min
Season 2000Episode 1The Germans We Kept60 min
Season 2000Episode 2Brazil: An Inconvenient History60 min
Season 2001Episode 1The Empire State Story60 min
Season 2001Episode 2Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich60 min
Season 2001Episode 3The King's Servant60 min
Season 2001Episode 4Nero's Golden House60 min
Season 2001Episode 5Public Enemy Number One60 min
Season 2001Episode 6Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers60 min
Season 2001Episode 7The Last Surrender60 min
Season 2001Episode 8Debutantes60 min
Season 2001Episode 9Strangeways Revisited60 min
Season 2001Episode 10Scharnhorst60 min
Season 2001Episode 11Roman Soldiers to Be60 min
Season 2001Episode 12Bombing Germany60 min
Season 2002Episode 1The Making of Adolf Hitler60 min
Season 2002Episode 2Mystery of the Iron Bridge60 min
Season 2002Episode 3Death of the Battleship60 min
Season 2002Episode 4Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea60 min
Season 2002Episode 5Jubilee Day60 min
Season 2002Episode 6Myths of the Titanic60 min
Season 2002Episode 7The Victorian Way of Death60 min
Season 2002Episode 8Battle for Berlin60 min
Season 2002Episode 9Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad60 min
Season 2002Episode 10The Myth of Custer's Last Stand60 min
Season 2002Episode 11Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt60 min
Season 2002Episode 12Murder at Harvard60 min
Season 2003Episode 1White Slaves, Pirate Gold60 min
Season 2003Episode 2Lost Cities of the Maya60 min
Season 2003Episode 3Rocket and Its Rivals60 min
Season 2003Episode 4Ramesses III: Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh60 min
Season 2003Episode 51914: The War Revolution60 min
Season 2003Episode 6Concorde: A Love Story60 min
Season 2003Episode 7Zulu: The True Story60 min
Season 2003Episode 8The Greatest Storm60 min
Season 2003Episode 9The Last Tomb Raider60 min
Season 2003Episode 10Mystery of the Missing Ace60 min
Season 2003Episode 11Britain's Greatest Hoax - Piltdown Man60 min
Season 2003Episode 12Gallipoli: The First D-Day60 min
Season 2003Episode 13Through Hell for Hitler60 min
Season 2004Episode 1Britain's X Files60 min
Season 2004Episode 2The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold60 min
Season 2004Episode 3The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari60 min
Season 2004Episode 4The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship60 min
Season 2004Episode 5How Mad Was King George?60 min
Season 2004Episode 6Who Killed Rasputin?60 min
Season 2004Episode 7The Lost Heroes60 min
Season 2004Episode 8The Mystery of the Black Death60 min
Season 2004Episode 9The Black Pharaohs60 min
Season 2004Episode 10The Secrets of the Mary Rose60 min
Season 2004Episode 11Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle60 min
Season 2005Episode 1Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?60 min
Season 2005Episode 2Murder in Rome60 min
Season 2005Episode 3Who Killed Stalin?60 min
Season 2005Episode 4Princess Margaret: A Love Story60 min
Season 2005Episode 5The Killer Wave of 160760 min
Season 2005Episode 6Britain's Lost Colosseum60 min
Season 2005Episode 7The Year without Summer60 min
Season 2005Episode 8Emperor Hirohito60 min
Season 2005Episode 9The Gunpowder Plot60 min
Season 2005Episode 10Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields60 min
Season 2005Episode 11Children of the Doomed Voyage60 min
Season 2005Episode 12Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler60 min
Season 2006Episode 1The Bog Bodies60 min
Season 2006Episode 2Battle of the River Plate60 min
Season 2006Episode 3The Floating Brothel60 min
Season 2006Episode 4Unknown Soldiers60 min
Season 2006Episode 5Missing in Action60 min
Season 2006Episode 6The Secret History of Genghis Khan60 min
Season 2006Episode 7The Crusader's Lost Fort60 min
Season 2006Episode 8Mystery of the Headless Romans60 min
Season 2006Episode 9Battle for Warsaw60 min
Season 2006Episode 10The Iron Coffin60 min
Season 2006Episode 11San Francisco's Great Quake60 min
Season 2006Episode 12The Princess Spy60 min
Season 2007Episode 1The Hunt for U-86460 min
Season 2007Episode 2Beatlemania60 min
Season 2007Episode 3Killer Cloud60 min
Season 2007Episode 4Hadrian's Wall60 min
Season 2007Episode 5Zeppelin: The First Blitz60 min
Season 2007Episode 6The Last Duel60 min
Season 2007Episode 7Remember the Galahad60 min
Season 2007Episode 8Hijack60 min
Season 2007Episode 9The Hidden Children60 min
Season 2007Episode 10The Wave that Destroyed Atlantis60 min
Season 2007Episode 11Gladiator Graveyard60 min
Season 2007Episode 12The People's Coronation60 min
Season 2008Episode 1Viking Voyage60 min
Season 2008Episode 2Bloody Omaha60 min
Season 2008Episode 3The Wreckers60 min
Season 2008Episode 4The Greatest Knight60 min
Season 2008Episode 5The Pharaoh's Lost City60 min
Season 2008Episode 6Ten Pound Poms60 min
Season 2008Episode 7Stonehenge: The Healing Stones60 min
Season 2008Episode 8Britain's Forgotten Floods60 min
Season 2008Episode 9The Boxer Rebellion60 min
Season 2008Episode 10Young Victoria60 min
Season 2008Episode 11The Last Day of World War One60 min
Season 2009Episode 1Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns60 min
Season 2009Episode 2QE2 - The Final Voyage60 min
Season 2009Episode 3The Real Bonnie and Clyde60 min
Season 2009Episode 4Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend60 min
Season 2009Episode 5WWI Aces Falling60 min
Season 2009Episode 6Pyramid - The Last Secret60 min
Season 2009Episode 7In Shackleton's Footsteps60 min
Season 2009Episode 8The Prince and the Plotter60 min
Season 2009Episode 9Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry60 min
Season 2010Episode 1Atlantis: The Evidence60 min
Season 2011Episode 1Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes60 min
Season 2011Episode 2The Most Courageous Raid of WWII60 min
Season 2011Episode 3Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams60 min
Season 2011Episode 4Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story60 min
Season 2015Episode 1The Mary Rose60 min
Season 2015Episode 2Cleopatra60 min
Season 2015Episode 3Roman Britain60 min
Season 2016Episode 1Stonehenge60 min
Season 2016Episode 2The Crusades60 min
Season 2016Episode 3Queen Elizabeth I60 min
Season 2016Episode 4World War Two60 min
Season 2016Episode 5Crime and Punishment60 min
Season 2016Episode 6Women, Sex and Society60 min
Season 2016Episode 7Russia: A Century of Suspicion60 min
Season 2017Episode 1British Empire: Heroes and Villains60 min
Season 2017Episode 2Decoding Disaster60 min
Season 2017Episode 3The Vikings: Foe or Friend?60 min
Season 2017Episode 4Dictators and Despots60 min
Season 2017Episode 5Explorers: Conquest and Calamity60 min

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