Is Timewatch coming back?
Timewatch (1982–2017) — mystery · history on BBC Four
The answer: Concluded August 1, 2017.
33seasons
298episodes
About Timewatch
Timewatch ended on August 1, 2017, on BBC Four. The series was a long-running documentary program that explored various historical topics through in-depth investigations and storytelling.
Originally premiering in 1982, Timewatch was a series of historical documentaries that covered a wide range of events and periods. The show was known for its detailed analysis and presentation of historical facts, providing viewers with insights into different eras and significant moments in history. Over the years, it aired multiple seasons, with the final season consisting of five episodes in 2017.
Each episode typically ran for about 60 minutes, offering comprehensive coverage of its topics without fictional characters or actors.
Timewatch episode schedule
298 aired
Aired · 298
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 1, 2017 | S2017·E5 | Explorers: Conquest and Calamity |
| July 25, 2017 | S2017·E4 | Dictators and Despots |
| July 18, 2017 | S2017·E3 | The Vikings: Foe or Friend? |
| July 13, 2017 | S2017·E2 | Decoding Disaster |
| February 1, 2017 | S2017·E1 | British Empire: Heroes and Villains |
| November 22, 2016 | S2016·E7 | Russia: A Century of Suspicion |
| November 15, 2016 | S2016·E6 | Women, Sex and Society |
| November 8, 2016 | S2016·E5 | Crime and Punishment |
| February 25, 2016 | S2016·E4 | World War Two |
| February 10, 2016 | S2016·E3 | Queen Elizabeth I |
| February 3, 2016 | S2016·E2 | The Crusades |
| January 27, 2016 | S2016·E1 | Stonehenge |
| February 17, 2015 | S2015·E3 | Roman Britain |
| February 10, 2015 | S2015·E2 | Cleopatra |
| February 3, 2015 | S2015·E1 | The Mary Rose |
| November 15, 2011 | S2011·E4 | Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story |
| November 8, 2011 | S2011·E3 | Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams |
| November 1, 2011 | S2011·E2 | The Most Courageous Raid of WWII |
| October 25, 2011 | S2011·E1 | Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes |
| June 10, 2010 | S2010·E1 | Atlantis: The Evidence |
| October 6, 2009 | S2009·E9 | Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry |
| July 4, 2009 | S2009·E8 | The Prince and the Plotter |
| April 4, 2009 | S2009·E7 | In Shackleton's Footsteps |
| March 28, 2009 | S2009·E6 | Pyramid - The Last Secret |
| March 21, 2009 | S2009·E5 | WWI Aces Falling |
| March 14, 2009 | S2009·E4 | Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend |
| March 7, 2009 | S2009·E3 | The Real Bonnie and Clyde |
| February 28, 2009 | S2009·E2 | QE2 - The Final Voyage |
| February 21, 2009 | S2009·E1 | Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns |
| November 1, 2008 | S2008·E11 | The Last Day of World War One |
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| October 18, 2008 | S2008·E10 | Young Victoria |
| October 11, 2008 | S2008·E9 | The Boxer Rebellion |
| October 4, 2008 | S2008·E8 | Britain's Forgotten Floods |
| September 27, 2008 | S2008·E7 | Stonehenge: The Healing Stones |
| February 2, 2008 | S2008·E6 | Ten Pound Poms |
| January 26, 2008 | S2008·E5 | The Pharaoh's Lost City |
| January 19, 2008 | S2008·E4 | The Greatest Knight |
| January 12, 2008 | S2008·E3 | The Wreckers |
| January 6, 2008 | S2008·E2 | Bloody Omaha |
| January 5, 2008 | S2008·E1 | Viking Voyage |
| May 18, 2007 | S2007·E12 | The People's Coronation |
| May 11, 2007 | S2007·E11 | Gladiator Graveyard |
| April 20, 2007 | S2007·E10 | The Wave that Destroyed Atlantis |
| April 16, 2007 | S2007·E9 | The Hidden Children |
| April 6, 2007 | S2007·E8 | Hijack |
| April 2, 2007 | S2007·E7 | Remember the Galahad |
| February 9, 2007 | S2007·E6 | The Last Duel |
| February 2, 2007 | S2007·E5 | Zeppelin: The First Blitz |
| January 26, 2007 | S2007·E4 | Hadrian's Wall |
| January 19, 2007 | S2007·E3 | Killer Cloud |
| January 12, 2007 | S2007·E2 | Beatlemania |
| January 5, 2007 | S2007·E1 | The Hunt for U-864 |
| May 19, 2006 | S2006·E12 | The Princess Spy |
| May 12, 2006 | S2006·E11 | San Francisco's Great Quake |
| May 5, 2006 | S2006·E10 | The Iron Coffin |
| April 28, 2006 | S2006·E9 | Battle for Warsaw |
| April 21, 2006 | S2006·E8 | Mystery of the Headless Romans |
| April 14, 2006 | S2006·E7 | The Crusader's Lost Fort |
| March 10, 2006 | S2006·E6 | The Secret History of Genghis Khan |
| March 3, 2006 | S2006·E5 | Missing in Action |
| February 24, 2006 | S2006·E4 | Unknown Soldiers |
| February 3, 2006 | S2006·E3 | The Floating Brothel |
| January 27, 2006 | S2006·E2 | Battle of the River Plate |
| January 20, 2006 | S2006·E1 | The Bog Bodies |
| November 25, 2005 | S2005·E12 | Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler |
| November 18, 2005 | S2005·E11 | Children of the Doomed Voyage |
| November 11, 2005 | S2005·E10 | Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields |
| November 4, 2005 | S2005·E9 | The Gunpowder Plot |
| July 1, 2005 | S2005·E8 | Emperor Hirohito |
| May 27, 2005 | S2005·E7 | The Year without Summer |
| May 20, 2005 | S2005·E6 | Britain's Lost Colosseum |
| April 2, 2005 | S2005·E5 | The Killer Wave of 1607 |
| March 26, 2005 | S2005·E4 | Princess Margaret: A Love Story |
| March 11, 2005 | S2005·E3 | Who Killed Stalin? |
| March 4, 2005 | S2005·E2 | Murder in Rome |
| January 29, 2005 | S2005·E1 | Who Killed Ivan the Terrible? |
| November 5, 2004 | S2004·E11 | Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle |
| October 29, 2004 | S2004·E10 | The Secrets of the Mary Rose |
| October 22, 2004 | S2004·E9 | The Black Pharaohs |
| October 15, 2004 | S2004·E8 | The Mystery of the Black Death |
| October 8, 2004 | S2004·E7 | The Lost Heroes |
| October 1, 2004 | S2004·E6 | Who Killed Rasputin? |
| February 6, 2004 | S2004·E5 | How Mad Was King George? |
| January 30, 2004 | S2004·E4 | The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship |
| January 23, 2004 | S2004·E3 | The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari |
| January 16, 2004 | S2004·E2 | The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold |
| January 9, 2004 | S2004·E1 | Britain's X Files |
| December 5, 2003 | S2003·E13 | Through Hell for Hitler |
| November 28, 2003 | S2003·E12 | Gallipoli: The First D-Day |
| November 21, 2003 | S2003·E11 | Britain's Greatest Hoax - Piltdown Man |
| November 14, 2003 | S2003·E10 | Mystery of the Missing Ace |
| November 7, 2003 | S2003·E9 | The Last Tomb Raider |
| October 31, 2003 | S2003·E8 | The Greatest Storm |
| October 24, 2003 | S2003·E7 | Zulu: The True Story |
| June 29, 2003 | S2003·E6 | Concorde: A Love Story |
| February 7, 2003 | S2003·E5 | 1914: The War Revolution |
| January 31, 2003 | S2003·E4 | Ramesses III: Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh |
| January 24, 2003 | S2003·E3 | Rocket and Its Rivals |
| January 17, 2003 | S2003·E2 | Lost Cities of the Maya |
| January 10, 2003 | S2003·E1 | White Slaves, Pirate Gold |
| December 14, 2002 | S2002·E12 | Murder at Harvard |
| September 6, 2002 | S2002·E11 | Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt |
| August 16, 2002 | S2002·E10 | The Myth of Custer's Last Stand |
| August 9, 2002 | S2002·E9 | Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad |
| May 10, 2002 | S2002·E8 | Battle for Berlin |
| May 4, 2002 | S2002·E7 | The Victorian Way of Death |
| April 19, 2002 | S2002·E6 | Myths of the Titanic |
| February 8, 2002 | S2002·E5 | Jubilee Day |
| February 1, 2002 | S2002·E4 | Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea |
| January 18, 2002 | S2002·E3 | Death of the Battleship |
| January 11, 2002 | S2002·E2 | Mystery of the Iron Bridge |
| January 4, 2002 | S2002·E1 | The Making of Adolf Hitler |
| August 23, 2001 | S2001·E12 | Bombing Germany |
| June 8, 2001 | S2001·E11 | Roman Soldiers to Be |
| June 1, 2001 | S2001·E10 | Scharnhorst |
| May 25, 2001 | S2001·E9 | Strangeways Revisited |
| May 18, 2001 | S2001·E8 | Debutantes |
| May 11, 2001 | S2001·E7 | The Last Surrender |
| February 16, 2001 | S2001·E6 | Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers |
| February 9, 2001 | S2001·E5 | Public Enemy Number One |
| February 2, 2001 | S2001·E4 | Nero's Golden House |
| January 26, 2001 | S2001·E3 | The King's Servant |
| January 19, 2001 | S2001·E2 | Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich |
| January 12, 2001 | S2001·E1 | The Empire State Story |
| April 29, 2000 | S2000·E2 | Brazil: An Inconvenient History |
| January 8, 2000 | S2000·E1 | The Germans We Kept |
| December 4, 1999 | S1999·E12 | A Very British Mutiny |
| November 20, 1999 | S1999·E11 | Tales of the Eiffel Tower |
| November 6, 1999 | S1999·E10 | Ivan the Terrible |
| October 2, 1999 | S1999·E9 | The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War |
| June 26, 1999 | S1999·E8 | Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle |
| June 5, 1999 | S1999·E7 | The Forgotten Volunteers |
| May 29, 1999 | S1999·E6 | Before the Titanic |
| May 22, 1999 | S1999·E5 | Sleeping with the Enemy |
| May 8, 1999 | S1999·E4 | The Lost Temple of Java |
| May 1, 1999 | S1999·E3 | Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs |
| April 24, 1999 | S1999·E2 | The Crossing |
| April 17, 1999 | S1999·E1 | Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax |
| November 3, 1998 | S1998·E12 | An American Firefight |
| October 27, 1998 | S1998·E11 | The British in India |
| October 27, 1998 | S1998·E10 | Banking with Hitler |
| October 13, 1998 | S1998·E9 | The Pilgrim Obsession |
| October 6, 1998 | S1998·E8 | Lloyd George's War |
| September 29, 1998 | S1998·E7 | Sex and War |
| May 12, 1998 | S1998·E6 | Aborigine - A Collision of Conscience |
| May 5, 1998 | S1998·E5 | Las Vegas and the Mormons |
| April 28, 1998 | S1998·E4 | The Roman Way of War |
| April 21, 1998 | S1998·E3 | The Oklahoma Outlaw |
| April 14, 1998 | S1998·E2 | Grammar School Boys |
| April 7, 1998 | S1998·E1 | Hitler and the Invasion of Britain |
| December 16, 1997 | S1997·E15 | In Search of Cleopatra |
| December 9, 1997 | S1997·E14 | Remember the Ugandan Asians |
| December 2, 1997 | S1997·E13 | Lenin's Secret Files |
| November 25, 1997 | S1997·E12 | The African Trade |
| November 18, 1997 | S1997·E11 | The Gentlemen Spies |
| November 11, 1997 | S1997·E10 | Alison: A Personal History |
| November 4, 1997 | S1997·E9 | Lords of the Maya |
| October 28, 1997 | S1997·E8 | The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai |
| April 18, 1997 | S1997·E7 | Back to the Iron Age |
| April 1, 1997 | S1997·E6 | Forgotten Allies |
| March 25, 1997 | S1997·E5 | Birth Story |
| March 18, 1997 | S1997·E4 | The Boer War: The First Media War |
| March 11, 1997 | S1997·E3 | Secret Memories |
| March 4, 1997 | S1997·E2 | Before Columbus |
| February 25, 1997 | S1997·E1 | Love Story |
| October 22, 1996 | S1996·E13 | Cry Hungary |
| October 15, 1996 | S1996·E12 | Remember Aberfan |
| October 8, 1996 | S1996·E11 | Baiting the Bear |
| October 1, 1996 | S1996·E10 | Stalin's Foreign Slaves |
| September 24, 1996 | S1996·E9 | Gold Rush Memories |
| September 17, 1996 | S1996·E8 | The History of a Mystery |
| September 10, 1996 | S1996·E7 | Hannibal and Desert Storm |
| July 3, 1996 | S1996·E6 | Haig: The Unknown Soldier |
| February 11, 1996 | S1996·E5 | Voices of Victorian London |
| February 4, 1996 | S1996·E4 | Bad Boys |
| January 28, 1996 | S1996·E3 | Drake's Last Voyage |
| January 21, 1996 | S1996·E2 | Russia's Secret War |
| January 14, 1996 | S1996·E1 | Karnak - A Hidden History |
| November 12, 1995 | S1995·E12 | Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WWI? |
| November 5, 1995 | S1995·E11 | The Projection Racket |
| October 29, 1995 | S1995·E10 | Quiet Revolution |
| October 22, 1995 | S1995·E9 | Kamikaze |
| October 15, 1995 | S1995·E8 | Pocahontas: Her True Story |
| October 8, 1995 | S1995·E7 | Evidence of Vikings |
| July 23, 1995 | S1995·E6 | Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns |
| April 30, 1995 | S1995·E5 | Hitler's Death: The Final Report |
| April 15, 1995 | S1995·E4 | The Life and Lives of Oscar Wilde |
| March 30, 1995 | S1995·E3 | The BBC in Vietnam |
| March 23, 1995 | S1995·E2 | Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam |
| January 11, 1995 | S1995·E1 | Out of the Ashes |
| December 18, 1994 | S1994·E13 | Typhoid Mary |
| December 11, 1994 | S1994·E12 | Memo from Machiavelli – How to Succeed in British Politics |
| December 4, 1994 | S1994·E11 | Krushchev – The Peasant Premier |
| November 27, 1994 | S1994·E10 | Age of the Sphinx |
| November 20, 1994 | S1994·E9 | Flames of War |
| November 13, 1994 | S1994·E8 | Hitler's Secret Weapons |
| November 6, 1994 | S1994·E7 | The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition |
| October 26, 1994 | S1994·E2 | The Real Rasputin |
| June 26, 1994 | S1994·E6 | Seeds of War |
| April 6, 1994 | S1994·E5 | Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration |
| March 9, 1994 | S1994·E4 | Presumed Guilty – A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 |
| February 9, 1994 | S1994·E3 | Spies in the Sky |
| January 12, 1994 | S1994·E1 | Forgotten Heroes - Merchant Seamen at War |
| December 20, 1993 | S1993·E14 | Chairman Mao - The Last Emperor |
| November 21, 1993 | S1993·E13 | The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald |
| November 10, 1993 | S1993·E12 | Children of the Third Reich |
| October 13, 1993 | S1993·E11 | Hunger Strike: A Hidden History |
| September 29, 1993 | S1993·E10 | The Mother of All Battles |
| September 15, 1993 | S1993·E9 | True Story of the Roman Arena |
| June 2, 1993 | S1993·E8 | On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging |
| April 7, 1993 | S1993·E7 | Battle of the Bombers |
| March 24, 1993 | S1993·E6 | Buffalo Bill |
| March 10, 1993 | S1993·E5 | The Pill: Prescription for Revolution |
| February 24, 1993 | S1993·E4 | The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover |
| February 10, 1993 | S1993·E3 | The Stolen Child |
| January 27, 1993 | S1993·E2 | The Sparks that Lit the Bonfire |
| January 13, 1993 | S1993·E1 | Allied to the Mafia |
| October 28, 1992 | S1992·E20 | Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness |
| October 21, 1992 | S1992·E19 | Sold Down the River |
| October 14, 1992 | S1992·E18 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball |
| October 7, 1992 | S1992·E17 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam |
| September 23, 1992 | S1992·E15 | A Diplomat in Japan: A Clash of Cultures |
| September 20, 1992 | S1992·E16 | A Diplomat in Japan: Witness to a Revolution |
| September 16, 1992 | S1992·E14 | The Un-Americans: To Hell with Truth |
| September 9, 1992 | S1992·E13 | The Un-Americans: No Place to Hide |
| September 2, 1992 | S1992·E12 | The Un-Americans: Five Minutes to Midnight |
| June 24, 1992 | S1992·E11 | Gladio: The Foot Soldiers |
| June 17, 1992 | S1992·E10 | Gladio: The Puppeteers |
| June 10, 1992 | S1992·E9 | Gladio: The Ringmasters |
| June 3, 1992 | S1992·E8 | SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich |
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