Timeshift 2002
- Status
- Returning Series
- First Aired
- October 10, 2002
- Last Aired
- April 20, 2017
- Format
- 17 seasons · 184 eps
- Total Runtime
- ~184 hours (60 min/ep)
- Essential Runtime
- ~183 hours (skips filler)
- Highest Rated Episode
- S13E3 "Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain" (★ 10/10)
- Network
- BBC Four
- Where to Stream
- BBC iPlayer
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What is Timeshift?
Timeshift is a documentary television series. The series offers a window into Britain's social and cultural history through its narrative-led storytelling.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 2002
- Status
- Returning Series
- Episodes
- 184
- Runtime
- 60 minutes
- First aired
- Oct 10, 2002
- Last aired
- Apr 20, 2017
- Original language
- EN
- Origin
- GB
- Networks
- BBC Four
- Genres
- Documentary
- Updated
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- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 7.0/10 from 5 votes
- Format
- 17 seasons · 184 episodes
- Episode runtime
- ~60 minutes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- BBC Four
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Timeshift is a documentary television series. The series offers a window into Britain's social and cultural history through its narrative-led storytelling. This approach provides a richly immersive and varied look at the past. The series ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.
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“Explore Britain's social and cultural history through an immersive and varied documentary series.”
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- offers a richly immersive window onto the past
- features narrative-led storytelling
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- limited details provided in the available overview
Watch it if you enjoy documentaries exploring British social and cultural history.
This is a documentary series focused on history.
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Cast
Tony Benn
Denis Lawson
Self - Narrator
Jonathan Miller
self
Dan Cruickshank
Self - TV Presenter
Sid Waddell
Self - Darts Commentator (archive footage)
Eric Bristow
Self - Darts Player
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John Lowe
Self - Darts Player
Keith Deller
Self - Darts Player
Phil Taylor
Self - Darts Player
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Narrator - (Voice)
Arthur Scargill
Self ☻
Harry Shapiro
self
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Season 1 · 16 episodes
Open the complete Season 1 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Grunwick Strike Mytharc Oct 10, 2002
- E2 The Cannabis Years Core Oct 12, 2002
- E3 The Writer's Trade Core Oct 19, 2002
- E4 The Sailing Sixties Core Nov 9, 2002
- E5 Attenborough: The Controller Years Core Nov 16, 2002
- E6 he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man Mytharc Nov 30, 2002
- E7 A Shadow Over Europe Core Dec 3, 2002
- E8 Whatever Happened to the Working Class? Core Feb 11, 2003
- E9 Notting Hill Riots Core Jan 18, 2003
- E10 What Have the Germans Done for Us? Core Feb 16, 2003
- E11 Greenham Common Changed My Life Core Feb 23, 2003
- E12 Car Crazy Core Mar 2, 2003
- E13 The Magic Roundabout Story Core Mar 16, 2003
- E14 Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream Core Mar 24, 2003
- E15 Gurus Mytharc Mar 30, 2003
- E16 A Brief Interlude Mytharc Feb 16, 2003
Season 2 · 10 episodes
Open the complete Season 2 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Great British Seaside Holiday Mytharc May 5, 2003
- E2 Children's News Core May 18, 2003
- E3 Watching You Core May 22, 2003
- E4 TV and Charity Core Jun 5, 2003
- E5 Tyneside Core Jun 12, 2003
- E6 Political Thrillers: Plays of State Core Jun 15, 2003
- E7 High Rise Dreams Mytharc Jun 19, 2003
- E8 Vicars: Dearly Beloved? Core Jul 3, 2003
- E9 Footballers’ Lives Mytharc Sep 21, 2003
- E10 Six Days to Saturday Mytharc Sep 21, 2003
Season 3 · 13 episodes
Open the complete Season 3 guide & lore primer →- E1 Cold War Kids Mytharc Oct 1, 2003
- E2 The Kneale Tapes Core Oct 15, 2003
- E3 James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck Core Oct 22, 2003
- E4 Apocalypse Now… and Then Core Oct 29, 2003
- E5 The Lie of the Land Core Nov 5, 2003
- E6 Child Prodigies Core Nov 19, 2003
- E7 Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors saved the NHS Core Nov 30, 2003
- E8 The Jet Set Core Dec 17, 2003
- E9 Missing Believed Wiped Core Dec 29, 2003
- E10 Prog Rock Core Jan 19, 2004
- E11 Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer Core Feb 9, 2004
- E12 Whistleblowers Mytharc Mar 2, 2004
- E13 Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame Mytharc Mar 4, 2004
Season 4 · 21 episodes
Open the complete Season 4 guide & lore primer →- E1 Art School Mytharc Jun 19, 2004
- E2 Fantasy Sixties Core Jul 13, 2004
- E3 Jack Rosenthal: The Voice of Television Drama Core Jul 18, 2004
- E4 The Carnival Years Core Aug 28, 2004
- E5 The History of Pubs Core Oct 7, 2004
- E6 Live on the Night: The Story of Live TV Drama Core Oct 14, 2004
- E7 New Age Travellers Core Oct 21, 2004
- E8 Drugs in Sport Core Oct 28, 2004
- E9 Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey Mytharc Nov 4, 2004
- E10 British Space Race Core Nov 16, 2004
- E11 Pile It High, Sell It Cheap Core Jan 20, 2005
- E12 Red Robbo Core Feb 2, 2005
- E13 Gambling Britain Core Feb 3, 2005
- E14 The Story of Circus Core Feb 10, 2005
- E15 Pop Svengalis Core Feb 22, 2005
- E16 Conchies: Questions of Conscience Core May 1, 2005
- E17 Kenneth Tynan Core Mar 2, 2005
- E18 Jewish Entertainers Core Mar 15, 2005
- E19 Alan Plater: Hearing the Music Core Mar 26, 2005
- E20 Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban Mytharc Apr 4, 2005
- E21 Russel T. Davis: Unscripted Mytharc Apr 11, 2005
Season 5 · 22 episodes
Open the complete Season 5 guide & lore primer →- E1 MPs on the Box Mytharc May 19, 2005
- E2 Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe Core May 31, 2005
- E3 England Away Core May 31, 2005
- E4 Court on Camera Core Jul 16, 2005
- E5 Apes in Hollywood Core Jul 17, 2005
- E6 Star Men Core Aug 6, 2005
- E7 Black and White Minstrels Revisited Core Aug 8, 2005
- E8 Too Much, Too Young Core Sep 9, 2005
- E9 The Jitterbug Years Core Oct 1, 2005
- E10 Play It Again Core Oct 4, 2005
- E11 The Battle for the Ashes Core Oct 20, 2005
- E12 The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith Core Oct 25, 2005
- E13 The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain Core Oct 25, 2005
- E14 Lost Road: Overland To Singapore Core Oct 30, 2005
- E15 A Study in Sherlock Core Dec 24, 2005
- E16 Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes Core Dec 26, 2005
- E17 Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now Core Jan 15, 2006
- E18 The British Way of Death Core Feb 6, 2006
- E19 Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama Mytharc Feb 8, 2006
- E20 Rude Britannia Core Feb 13, 2006
- E21 The Sun and the Moon Mytharc Mar 6, 2006
- E22 Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films Mytharc Mar 30, 2006
Season 6 · 15 episodes
Open the complete Season 6 guide & lore primer →- E1 Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week Mytharc Apr 1, 2006
- E2 Creating 'Life on Mars' Core Apr 2, 2006
- E3 The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold Core May 1, 2006
- E4 Carry On Campus Core May 10, 2006
- E5 Machine Men Core May 13, 2006
- E6 Oz and Them Core Jan 16, 2007
- E7 Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction Core Aug 30, 2006
- E8 Planet Ping Pong Core Sep 11, 2006
- E9 Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide Core Nov 29, 2006
- E10 Transylvania Babylon Core Dec 28, 2006
- E11 The New Middle Classes Core Mar 4, 2007
- E12 Rover: The Long Goodbye Core Mar 20, 2007
- E13 First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom Core Mar 24, 2007
- E14 Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health Mytharc Mar 25, 2007
- E15 Goodbye Children Everywhere Mytharc May 26, 2007
Season 7 · 13 episodes
Open the complete Season 7 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Edwardian Larder Mytharc Apr 18, 2007
- E2 How To Be a Good Prime Minister Core Sep 22, 2007
- E3 Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy Core Oct 1, 2007
- E4 Whatever Happened to Radio 2? Core Oct 5, 2007
- E5 Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country Core Oct 12, 2007
- E6 Emmylou Harris at the BBC Core Oct 12, 2007
- E7 Archaeology - Digging the Past Core Oct 21, 2007
- E8 Sir Mortimer Wheeler - A Life in Ruins Core Oct 21, 2007
- E9 Watching the Russians Core Nov 21, 2007
- E10 Never Had It So Good? Core Dec 10, 2007
- E11 A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 Core Dec 13, 2007
- E12 Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner Mytharc Dec 23, 2007
- E13 The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man Mytharc Mar 9, 2008
Season 8 · 8 episodes
Open the complete Season 8 guide & lore primer →- E1 How to Be a Good President Mytharc Sep 14, 2008
- E2 Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film Core Oct 9, 2008
- E3 Last Days of Steam Core Oct 16, 2008
- E4 How to Write a Mills and Boon Core Nov 2, 2008
- E5 How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword Mytharc Nov 10, 2008
- E6 The Comic Songbook Mytharc Dec 22, 2008
- E7 Fashion versus the BBC Mytharc Jan 22, 2009
- E8 The North-South Divide Mytharc Apr 2, 2009
Season 9 · 9 episodes
Open the complete Season 9 guide & lore primer →- E1 Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science Mytharc Apr 3, 2009
- E2 The Golden Age of Liners Core Oct 22, 2009
- E3 The Men Who Built the Liners Core Oct 29, 2009
- E4 The Last Days of the Liners Core Nov 3, 2009
- E5 How to Win at Chess Core Dec 21, 2009
- E6 Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films Core Dec 22, 2009
- E7 Clement Freud: In His Own Words Core Dec 22, 2009
- E8 Bread: A Loaf Affair Mytharc Mar 24, 2010
- E9 Disappearing Dad Mytharc Jun 29, 2010
Season 10 · 9 episodes
Open the complete Season 10 guide & lore primer →- E1 The North on a Plate Mytharc Sep 8, 2010
- E2 1960: The Year of the North Core Sep 14, 2010
- E3 When Britain Went Wild Core Oct 5, 2010
- E4 Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction Core Dec 20, 2010
- E5 Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction Core Dec 27, 2010
- E6 The Golden Age of Coach Travel Core Jan 5, 2011
- E7 The Modern Age of the Coach Core Jan 12, 2011
- E8 Crime and Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment Mytharc Apr 4, 2011
- E9 Crime and Punishment - The Story of Capital Punishment Mytharc Apr 5, 2011
Season 11 · 11 episodes
Open the complete Season 11 guide & lore primer →- E1 Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice Mytharc Apr 3, 2011
- E2 Hotel Deluxe Core Jun 29, 2011
- E3 All the Fun of the Fair Core Aug 2, 2011
- E4 When the Circus Comes to Town Core Aug 9, 2011
- E5 The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley Core Sep 15, 2011
- E6 Dear Censor - The secret archive of the British Board of Film Classification Core Sep 29, 2011
- E7 Antarctica - Of Ice and Men Core Nov 3, 2011
- E8 The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire Core Dec 5, 2011
- E9 Epic: A Cast of Thousands! Filler Dec 24, 2011
- E10 The Smoking Years Mytharc Jan 4, 2012
- E11 The Rules of Drinking Mytharc Jan 11, 2012
Season 12 · 10 episodes
Open the complete Season 12 guide & lore primer →- E1 Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery Mytharc Sep 24, 2012
- E2 Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution Core Oct 1, 2012
- E3 Klezmer Core Oct 14, 2012
- E4 Magnificent Machines: The Golden Age of the British Sports Car Core Oct 8, 2012
- E5 The British Army of the Rhine Core Oct 22, 2012
- E6 When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies Core Dec 13, 2012
- E7 The Joy of (Train) Sets Core Jan 23, 2013
- E8 Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo Core Jan 30, 2013
- E9 Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain Mytharc Feb 24, 2013
- E10 How To Be A Lady: An Elegant History Mytharc Mar 26, 2013
Season 13 · 7 episodes
Open the complete Season 13 guide & lore primer →- E1 Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes Mytharc Oct 28, 2013
- E2 When Coal Was King Core Nov 4, 2013
- E3 Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain Core Nov 13, 2013
- E4 A Day at the Zoo Core Nov 20, 2013
- E5 The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs that Got Britain Reading Core Dec 22, 2013
- E6 Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather Mytharc Jan 8, 2014
- E7 How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective Mytharc Jan 12, 2014
Season 14 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 14 guide & lore primer →- E1 Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem Mytharc May 26, 2014
- E2 Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather Core Jul 28, 2014
- E3 Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain Core Dec 15, 2014
- E4 Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest Core Jan 29, 2015
- E5 The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail Mytharc Feb 24, 2015
- E6 Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic Mytharc Mar 11, 2015
Season 15 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 15 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys Mytharc Sep 2, 2015
- E2 A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story Core Sep 9, 2015
- E3 The Engine That Powers the World Core Sep 23, 2015
- E4 The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets Core Oct 20, 2015
- E5 Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC Mytharc Oct 28, 2015
- E6 How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank Mytharc Nov 16, 2015
Season 16 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 16 guide & lore primer →- E1 Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built Mytharc Oct 19, 2016
- E2 Sailors, Ships and Stevedores: The Story of British Docks Core Oct 26, 2016
- E3 Penny Blacks & Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps Core Nov 14, 2016
- E4 Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop Core Dec 19, 2016
- E5 Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British Mytharc Feb 7, 2017
Season 17 · 3 episodes
Open the complete Season 17 guide & lore primer →- E1 Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car Mytharc Apr 3, 2017
- E2 Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service Core Apr 13, 2017
- E3 Dial 'B' for Britain: The Story of the Landline Mytharc Apr 20, 2017
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Frequently asked questions
What is Timeshift?
Timeshift is a documentary series that ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.
When was Timeshift released?
Timeshift premiered in the year 2002.
What kind of storytelling does the series use?
The series utilizes narrative-led storytelling.
What topics does the show cover?
The show covers Britain's social and cultural history.
How is the series described?
It is described as offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
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