Timewatch: Season 13
Season 13 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Timewatch Season 12.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 13 Progress Shield
Forgotten Heroes
Jan 12, 1994 · 50 min
One In four British merchant seamen died during the Second World War. Life on board ship was dangerous, poorly paid and carried a far higher casualty rate than any of the armed ser
The Real Rasputin
Jan 26, 1994 · 50 min
When Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin was murdered in 1916, rumour and political expediency set to work to paint him as a villain, responsible for the downfall of the Romanov empire, an
Spies in the Sky
Feb 9, 1994 · 50 min
Since 1949, dozens of planes and up to 200 US, British and allied air-crew have been lost in an undeclared aerial espionage war between the western powers and the Soviet Union. Man
Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969
Mar 9, 1994 · 50 min
In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treated a failed marriage as a criminal offence. Timewa
Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration
Apr 6, 1994 · 50 min
While the British government publicly operated an open-door policy to immigrants, in private it was terrified about the growing black population. Documents released under the 30-ye
Seeds of War
Jun 26, 1994 · 60 min
The question of how the First World War was started has been one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The flashpoint was the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
Nov 6, 1994 · 50 min
An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in reality it was none of these things. How did the t
Hitler's Secret Weapons
Nov 13, 1994 · 50 min
In the final few months of the Second World War, Hitler's revolutionary V1 and V2 missiles terrorised southern England. In London alone, 25,000 homes were levelled and 8,000 people
Flames of War
Nov 20, 1994 · 50 min
A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. The historical characters of Parliamentarian Lord
Age of the Sphinx
Nov 27, 1994 · 50 min
The tale of one man's attempt to rewrite the history of the world by redating Egypt's greatest mystery, the Sphinx. Until now, no one can say for sure why, when or by whom the famo
Khrushchev - The Peasant Premier
Dec 4, 1994 · 60 min
In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukrainian peasant's son. He contributed to the crises in B
Memo from Machiavelli: How to Succeed in British Politics
Dec 11, 1994 · 50 min
Niccolo Machiavelli's name is synonymous with political intrigue, but recent analysis of his work suggests that he was a political pragmatist whose best-known book 'The Prince' is
Typhoid Mary
Dec 18, 1994 · 55 min
Story of the woman judged to be such a danger to public health that she was incarcerated by the city of New York for 23 years. In the winter of 1906, Dr George Soper was summoned t