Timewatch: Season 26
Season 26 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 25.
- 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 26 Progress Shield
The Hunt for U864
Jan 5, 2007 · 50 min
The fascinating story of how, in February 1945, HMS Venturer hunted down and sank the U-boat U864 - a sub on a deadly secret mission. This documentary uses eyewitness accounts, arc
Beatlemania
Jan 12, 2007 · 50 min
By 1966 the Beatles had played over 1400 gigs and sold 200 million records. At the height of their popularity, the Fab Four decided they would never tour again. Previously unseen a
Killer Cloud
Jan 19, 2007 · 50 min
A huge volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783 spewed out poisonous gases that enveloped Europe, killing thousands of Britons. The ensuing winter was one of the worst ever and cost co
Hadrian's Wall
Jan 26, 2007 · 50 min
A stone barrier 74-miles long, up to 15ft high, and 10ft thick: Hadrian's Wall stood as the Roman Empire's most imposing frontier for 300 years. Almost 2,000 years after it was bui
The First Blitz
Feb 2, 2007 · 50 min
Unlikely as it seems now, the first aerial bombardment of Britain was a Zeppelin raid on the unfortunate Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth with one fatality. The next three years saw
The Last Duel
Feb 9, 2007 · 50 min
Timewatch recalls the last days of the 600-year-old ritual of duelling, telling the story of two men who set out with pistols into the Scottish countryside on 23 August 1826 after
Special: Remember the Galahad
Apr 2, 2007 · 50 min
Almost a quarter of a century ago, 50 British servicemen lost their lives at Fitzroy inlet in the Falkland Islands when two supply ships, Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, were bombed
Hijack
Apr 13, 2007 · 50 min
September 1970: A BOAC flight with 20 school children on board was hijacked in the name of a Palestinian guerrilla group - the first and last time a British commercial aircraft has
The Wave That Destroyed Atlantis
Apr 20, 2007 · 50 min
New evidence from the island of Crete suggests that Europe's first great civilisation, the Minoans, was destroyed by a cataclysmic natural disaster. Was the terrible fate of the Mi
The Hidden Children
Apr 27, 2007 · 50 min
By 1945 Vichy France had deported 76,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Told in their own words, these are the stories of four children secretly hidden by ordinary French people
Gladiator Graveyard
May 11, 2007 · 50 min
For centuries gladiators have been seen as legendary figures of the ancient world, based largely on speculation. For five years, two forensic anthropologists have been looking at t
The People's Coronation
May 18, 2007 · 50 min
Timewatch celebrates its 25th anniversary with a return to the family that featured in its first programme, the Windsors. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 was th