Timewatch: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Matter of Record
Jan 1, 1986 · 50 min
Three films which reflect the way official records are preserved for future generations. Film 1: Christopher Andrew examines the extraordinary story of how the MS Automedon, entru
Episode 2
Feb 6, 1986 · 50 min
Two stories shed new light on the life and times of Henry Tudor, who took the throne of England from Richard III 500 years ago. Film 1: The problems facing Margaret Rule and her a
The Master Builders
Mar 6, 1986 · 55 min
Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the
Episode 4
Apr 3, 1986 · 55 min
Three stories presented from the Virago bookshop in Covent Garden about the lives of women in worlds dominated by men. THE NINE DAY QUEEN: Lady Jane Grey was used by men of power
Special: All the King's Men
May 1, 1986 · 60 min
In January 1943 lone British agent Henri Dericourt was dropped over occupied France. His mission was to organise the reception and departure of RAF flights crucial to the secret wo
The Road to War
Jun 8, 1986 · 60 min
In 1936 'The Road to War' used newsreel to try to alert the American people to the mounting horror of war in China, Ethiopia, Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain. But America did not
The Price of the Past
Oct 9, 1986 · 50 min
Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders: - A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rork
A Medieval Affair
Nov 11, 1986 · 50 min
The Domesday Book was completed 900 years ago, but it says little about the daily worries and concerns of the people whose land and animals are recorded in so much detail. Three fi
The Human Factor
Dec 4, 1986 · 50 min
Film 1: How a Bulgarian peasant farmer stumbled across the largest Thracian treasure ever discovered - more than 160 silver bowls and jugs, found while digging an irrigation ditch.