Is Timeshift coming back?
Timeshift (2002) — history on BBC Four
The answer: Status unknown — no confirmed return date.
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17seasons
188episodes
About Timeshift
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
Timeshift episode schedule
188 aired
Aired · 188
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| April 20, 2017 | S17·E3 | Dial "B" for Britain: The Story of the Landline |
| April 13, 2017 | S17·E2 | Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service |
| April 3, 2017 | S17·E1 | Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car |
| February 7, 2017 | S16·E5 | Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British |
| December 19, 2016 | S16·E4 | Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop |
| November 14, 2016 | S16·E3 | Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps |
| October 26, 2016 | S16·E2 | Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks |
| October 19, 2016 | S16·E1 | Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built |
| November 16, 2015 | S15·E6 | How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank |
| October 28, 2015 | S15·E5 | Looking for Mr. Bond: 007 at the BBC |
| October 20, 2015 | S15·E4 | The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets |
| September 23, 2015 | S15·E3 | The Engine That Powers the World |
| September 9, 2015 | S15·E2 | A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story |
| September 2, 2015 | S15·E1 | The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys |
| March 11, 2015 | S14·E6 | Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic |
| February 24, 2015 | S14·E5 | The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail |
| January 26, 2015 | S14·E4 | Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest |
| December 15, 2014 | S14·E3 | Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain |
| July 28, 2014 | S14·E2 | Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather |
| May 26, 2014 | S14·E1 | Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem |
| January 12, 2014 | S13·E7 | How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective |
| January 8, 2014 | S13·E6 | Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather |
| December 22, 2013 | S13·E5 | The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading |
| November 20, 2013 | S13·E4 | A Day at the Zoo |
| November 13, 2013 | S13·E3 | Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain |
| November 4, 2013 | S13·E2 | When Coal Was King |
| October 28, 2013 | S13·E1 | Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes |
| March 26, 2013 | S12·E10 | How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History |
| February 24, 2013 | S12·E9 | Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain |
| January 30, 2013 | S12·E8 | Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo |
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| January 23, 2013 | S12·E7 | The Joy of (Train) Sets - The Model Railway Story |
| December 13, 2012 | S12·E6 | When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies |
| October 22, 2012 | S12·E5 | The British Army of the Rhine |
| October 14, 2012 | S12·E4 | Klezmer |
| October 8, 2012 | S12·E3 | Magnificent Machines - The Golden Age of the British Sports Car |
| October 1, 2012 | S12·E2 | Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution |
| September 24, 2012 | S12·E1 | Health Before the NHS: The Road to Recovery |
| January 11, 2012 | S11·E11 | The Rules of Drinking |
| January 4, 2012 | S11·E10 | The Smoking Years |
| December 24, 2011 | S11·E9 | Epic: A Cast of Thousands! |
| December 5, 2011 | S11·E8 | The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire |
| November 3, 2011 | S11·E7 | Antarctica: Of Ice and Men |
| September 29, 2011 | S11·E6 | Dear Censor |
| September 15, 2011 | S11·E5 | The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley |
| September 8, 2011 | S11·E4 | When the Circus Comes to Town |
| August 2, 2011 | S11·E3 | All the Fun of the Fair |
| June 29, 2011 | S11·E2 | Hotel Deluxe |
| April 5, 2011 | S10·E9 | The Story of Capital Punishment |
| April 4, 2011 | S10·E8 | The Story of Corporal Punishment |
| April 3, 2011 | S11·E1 | Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice |
| January 12, 2011 | S10·E7 | The Modern Age of the Coach |
| January 5, 2011 | S10·E6 | The Golden Age of Coach Travel |
| December 27, 2010 | S10·E5 | Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction |
| December 20, 2010 | S10·E4 | Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction |
| October 5, 2010 | S10·E3 | When Britain Went Wild |
| September 14, 2010 | S10·E2 | 1960: The Year of the North |
| September 8, 2010 | S10·E1 | The North on a Plate |
| June 29, 2010 | S9·E9 | Disappearing Dad |
| March 24, 2010 | S9·E8 | Bread: A Loaf Affair |
| December 22, 2009 | S9·E7 | Clement Freud: In His Own Words |
| December 22, 2009 | S9·E6 | Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films |
| December 21, 2009 | S9·E5 | How to Win at Chess |
| November 3, 2009 | S9·E4 | The Last Days of the Liners |
| October 29, 2009 | S9·E3 | The Men Who Built the Liners |
| October 22, 2009 | S9·E2 | The Golden Age of Liners |
| April 30, 2009 | S9·E1 | Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science |
| April 9, 2009 | S8·E8 | The North-South Divide |
| January 22, 2009 | S8·E7 | Fashion Versus the BBC |
| December 22, 2008 | S8·E6 | The Comic Songbook |
| November 10, 2008 | S8·E5 | How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword |
| November 2, 2008 | S8·E4 | How to Write a Mills and Boon |
| October 16, 2008 | S8·E3 | The Last Days of Steam |
| October 9, 2008 | S8·E2 | Between the Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film |
| September 14, 2008 | S8·E1 | How to Be a Good President |
| March 9, 2008 | S7·E13 | The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man |
| December 23, 2007 | S7·E12 | Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner |
| December 13, 2007 | S7·E11 | A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 |
| December 10, 2007 | S7·E10 | Never Had It So Good? |
| November 21, 2007 | S7·E9 | Watching the Russians |
| October 21, 2007 | S7·E8 | Sir Mortimer Wheeler: A Life in Ruins |
| October 21, 2007 | S7·E7 | Archaeology: Digging the Past |
| October 12, 2007 | S7·E6 | Emmylou Harris at the BBC |
| October 12, 2007 | S7·E5 | Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country |
| October 5, 2007 | S7·E4 | Whatever Happened to Radio 2? |
| October 1, 2007 | S7·E3 | Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy |
| September 22, 2007 | S7·E2 | How to Be a Good Prime Minister |
| June 9, 2007 | S7·E14 | Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub |
| May 26, 2007 | S6·E15 | Goodbye Children Everywhere |
| April 18, 2007 | S7·E1 | The Edwardian Larder |
| March 25, 2007 | S6·E14 | Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health |
| March 24, 2007 | S6·E13 | First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom |
| March 20, 2007 | S6·E12 | Rover: The Long Goodbye |
| March 4, 2007 | S6·E11 | The New Middle Classes |
| December 28, 2006 | S6·E10 | Transylvania Babylon |
| November 28, 2006 | S6·E9 | Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide |
| September 11, 2006 | S6·E8 | Planet Ping Pong |
| August 29, 2006 | S6·E7 | Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction |
| August 1, 2006 | S6·E6 | Oz and Them |
| May 22, 2006 | S6·E18 | The British Space Race |
| May 13, 2006 | S6·E5 | Machine Men |
| May 10, 2006 | S6·E4 | Carry On Campus |
| May 1, 2006 | S6·E3 | The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold |
| April 2, 2006 | S6·E2 | Creating Life on Mars |
| April 1, 2006 | S6·E1 | Switch Off Something |
| March 30, 2006 | S5·E22 | Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films |
| March 6, 2006 | S5·E21 | The Sun and the Moon |
| February 13, 2006 | S5·E20 | Rude Britannia |
| February 8, 2006 | S5·E19 | Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama |
| February 6, 2006 | S5·E18 | The British Way of Death |
| January 15, 2006 | S5·E17 | Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now |
| December 26, 2005 | S5·E16 | Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes |
| December 24, 2005 | S5·E15 | A Study in Sherlock |
| October 30, 2005 | S5·E14 | Lost Road: Overland to Singapore |
| October 25, 2005 | S5·E13 | The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain |
| October 25, 2005 | S5·E12 | The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith |
| October 20, 2005 | S5·E11 | The Battle for the Ashes |
| October 4, 2005 | S5·E10 | Play It Again |
| October 1, 2005 | S5·E9 | The Jitterbug Years |
| September 9, 2005 | S5·E8 | Too Much, Too Young |
| August 8, 2005 | S5·E7 | Black and White Minstrels Revisited |
| August 6, 2005 | S5·E6 | Star Men |
| July 17, 2005 | S5·E5 | Apes in Hollywood |
| July 16, 2005 | S5·E4 | Court on Camera |
| May 31, 2005 | S5·E3 | England Away |
| May 31, 2005 | S5·E2 | Je T'Aime… How We Learned to Love Europe |
| May 19, 2005 | S5·E1 | MP's on the Box |
| April 11, 2005 | S4·E21 | Russel T. Davis: Unscripted |
| April 4, 2005 | S4·E20 | Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban |
| March 26, 2005 | S4·E19 | Alan Plater: Hearing the Music |
| March 15, 2005 | S4·E18 | Jewish Entertainers |
| March 2, 2005 | S4·E17 | Kenneth Tynan |
| March 1, 2005 | S4·E16 | Conchies: Questions of Conscience |
| February 23, 2005 | S5·E23 | Pop Svengalis |
| February 22, 2005 | S4·E15 | Pop Svengalis |
| February 10, 2005 | S4·E14 | The Story of Circus |
| February 3, 2005 | S4·E13 | Gambling Britain |
| February 2, 2005 | S4·E12 | Red Robbo |
| January 20, 2005 | S4·E11 | Pile It High, Sell It Cheap |
| November 16, 2004 | S4·E10 | British Space Race |
| November 4, 2004 | S4·E9 | Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey |
| October 28, 2004 | S4·E8 | Drugs in Sport |
| October 21, 2004 | S4·E7 | New Age Travellers |
| October 14, 2004 | S4·E6 | Live on the Night |
| October 7, 2004 | S4·E5 | Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub |
| August 28, 2004 | S4·E4 | The Carnival Years |
| July 18, 2004 | S4·E3 | Rosenthal |
| June 26, 2004 | S4·E2 | Fantasy Sixties |
| June 19, 2004 | S4·E1 | Art School |
| March 4, 2004 | S3·E13 | Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame |
| March 2, 2004 | S3·E12 | Whistleblowers |
| February 9, 2004 | S3·E11 | Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer |
| February 9, 2004 | S2·E12 | Hard Drive Heaven |
| January 19, 2004 | S3·E10 | Prog Rock |
| December 29, 2003 | S3·E9 | Missing Believed Wiped |
| December 17, 2003 | S3·E8 | The Jet Set |
| December 1, 2003 | S2·E3 | Watching You |
| November 26, 2003 | S3·E7 | Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors Saved the NHS |
| November 19, 2003 | S3·E6 | Child Prodigies |
| November 5, 2003 | S3·E5 | The Lie of the Land |
| October 29, 2003 | S3·E4 | Apocalypse Now… and Then |
| October 22, 2003 | S3·E3 | James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck |
| October 15, 2003 | S3·E2 | The Kneale Tapes |
| October 15, 2003 | S2·E11 | The Kneale Tapes |
| October 1, 2003 | S3·E1 | Cold War Kids |
| September 21, 2003 | S2·E10 | Six Days to Saturday |
| September 21, 2003 | S2·E9 | Footballers' Lives |
| July 3, 2003 | S2·E8 | Vicars: Dearly Beloved? |
| June 19, 2003 | S2·E7 | High Rise Dreams |
| June 15, 2003 | S2·E6 | Political Thrillers: Plays of State |
| June 12, 2003 | S2·E5 | Tyneside |
| June 5, 2003 | S2·E4 | TV and Charity |
| May 15, 2003 | S2·E2 | Children's News |
| May 5, 2003 | S2·E1 | The British Seaside |
| March 30, 2003 | S1·E15 | Gurus |
| March 24, 2003 | S1·E14 | Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream |
| March 16, 2003 | S1·E13 | The Magic Roundabout Story |
| March 2, 2003 | S1·E12 | Car Crazy |
| February 23, 2003 | S1·E11 | Greenham Common Changed My Life |
| February 16, 2003 | S1·E10 | What Have the Germans Done for Us? |
| January 18, 2003 | S1·E9 | Notting Hill Riots |
| January 11, 2003 | S1·E8 | Whatever Happened to the Working Class? |
| December 3, 2002 | S1·E7 | A Shadow Over Europe |
| November 30, 2002 | S1·E6 | The Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man |
| November 16, 2002 | S1·E5 | Attenborough: The Controller Years |
| November 9, 2002 | S1·E4 | The Sailing Sixties |
| October 19, 2002 | S1·E3 | The Writer's Trade |
| October 12, 2002 | S1·E2 | The Cannabis Years |
| October 5, 2002 | S1·E1 | The Grunwick Strike |