40 Minutes 1981
What is 40 Minutes?
40 Minutes is a television series first released in 1981. Catalogued under Documentary.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 1981
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 322
- First aired
- Oct 1, 1981
- Networks
- BBC Two
- Genres
- Documentary
- Updated
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40 Minutes is a television series first released in 1981. Catalogued under Documentary. Produced and broadcast by BBC Two. Current status: Ended. Spans 14 seasons and 322 tracked episodes.
Should you watch it?
“Explore a diverse BBC documentary strand where every single episode lasts precisely forty minutes.”
- covers a wide range of subjects
- insightful television documentary strand
- limited to a forty minute runtime per episode
- individual episode subjects are broad and unpredictable
Watch it if you enjoy exploring diverse documentary subjects produced as a television strand.
This documentary strand contains varied real world subject matter suitable for general audiences.
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What was 40 Minutes?
It was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two.
When was it broadcast?
It was broadcast between 1981 and 1994.
What network aired the show?
It was broadcast on BBC Two.
What topics did the documentaries cover?
The documentaries could be on any possible subject.
Was the series ever updated?
Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version called Forty Minutes On.
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