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.
Series Premiere: October 05, 2002 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Documentary Network: BBC Four Airs: Thursday at 09:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
TIMESHIFT - Season 1 -- 15 Episodes
1x1 -- Oct 05, 2002 -- The Grunwick Strike 1x2 -- Oct 12, 2002 -- The Cannabis Years 1x3 -- Oct 19, 2002 -- The Writer's Trade 1x4 -- Nov 09, 2002 -- The Sailing Sixties 1x5 -- Nov 16, 2002 -- Attenborough: The Controller Years 1x6 -- Nov 30, 2002 -- The Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man 1x7 -- Dec 03, 2002 -- A Shadow Over Europe 1x8 -- Jan 11, 2003 -- Whatever Happened to the Working Class? 1x9 -- Jan 18, 2003 -- Notting Hill Riots 1x10 -- Feb 16, 2003 -- What Have the Germans Done for Us? 1x11 -- Feb 23, 2003 -- Greenham Common Changed My Life 1x12 -- Mar 02, 2003 -- Car Crazy 1x13 -- Mar 16, 2003 -- The Magic Roundabout Story 1x14 -- Mar 24, 2003 -- Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream 1x15 -- Mar 30, 2003 -- Gurus
TIMESHIFT - Season 2 -- 12 Episodes
2x1 -- May 05, 2003 -- The British Seaside 2x2 -- May 15, 2003 -- Children's News 2x3 -- Dec 01, 2003 -- Watching You 2x4 -- Jun 05, 2003 -- TV and Charity 2x5 -- Jun 12, 2003 -- Tyneside 2x6 -- Jun 15, 2003 -- Political Thrillers: Plays of State 2x7 -- Jun 19, 2003 -- High Rise Dreams 2x8 -- Jul 03, 2003 -- Vicars: Dearly Beloved? 2x9 -- Sep 21, 2003 -- Footballers' Lives 2x10 -- Sep 21, 2003 -- Six Days to Saturday 2x11 -- Oct 15, 2003 -- The Kneale Tapes 2x12 -- Feb 09, 2004 -- Hard Drive Heaven
TIMESHIFT - Season 3 -- 13 Episodes
3x1 -- Oct 01, 2003 -- Cold War Kids 3x2 -- Oct 15, 2003 -- The Kneale Tapes 3x3 -- Oct 22, 2003 -- James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck 3x4 -- Oct 29, 2003 -- Apocalypse Now… and Then 3x5 -- Nov 05, 2003 -- The Lie of the Land 3x6 -- Nov 19, 2003 -- Child Prodigies 3x7 -- Nov 26, 2003 -- Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors Saved the NHS 3x8 -- Dec 17, 2003 -- The Jet Set 3x9 -- Dec 29, 2003 -- Missing Believed Wiped 3x10 -- Jan 19, 2004 -- Prog Rock 3x11 -- Feb 09, 2004 -- Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer 3x12 -- Mar 02, 2004 -- Whistleblowers 3x13 -- Mar 04, 2004 -- Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame
TIMESHIFT - Season 4 -- 21 Episodes
4x1 -- Jun 19, 2004 -- Art School 4x2 -- Jun 26, 2004 -- Fantasy Sixties 4x3 -- Jul 18, 2004 -- Rosenthal 4x4 -- Aug 28, 2004 -- The Carnival Years 4x5 -- Oct 07, 2004 -- Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub 4x6 -- Oct 14, 2004 -- Live on the Night 4x7 -- Oct 21, 2004 -- New Age Travellers 4x8 -- Oct 28, 2004 -- Drugs in Sport 4x9 -- Nov 04, 2004 -- Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey 4x10 -- Nov 16, 2004 -- British Space Race 4x11 -- Jan 20, 2005 -- Pile It High, Sell It Cheap 4x12 -- Feb 02, 2005 -- Red Robbo 4x13 -- Feb 03, 2005 -- Gambling Britain 4x14 -- Feb 10, 2005 -- The Story of Circus 4x15 -- Feb 22, 2005 -- Pop Svengalis 4x16 -- Mar 01, 2005 -- Conchies: Questions of Conscience 4x17 -- Mar 02, 2005 -- Kenneth Tynan 4x18 -- Mar 15, 2005 -- Jewish Entertainers 4x19 -- Mar 26, 2005 -- Alan Plater: Hearing the Music 4x20 -- Apr 04, 2005 -- Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban 4x21 -- Apr 11, 2005 -- Russel T. Davis: Unscripted
TIMESHIFT - Season 5 -- 23 Episodes
5x1 -- May 19, 2005 -- MP's on the Box 5x2 -- May 31, 2005 -- Je T'Aime… How We Learned to Love Europe 5x3 -- May 31, 2005 -- England Away 5x4 -- Jul 16, 2005 -- Court on Camera 5x5 -- Jul 17, 2005 -- Apes in Hollywood 5x6 -- Aug 06, 2005 -- Star Men 5x7 -- Aug 08, 2005 -- Black and White Minstrels Revisited 5x8 -- Sep 09, 2005 -- Too Much, Too Young 5x9 -- Oct 01, 2005 -- The Jitterbug Years 5x10 -- Oct 04, 2005 -- Play It Again 5x11 -- Oct 20, 2005 -- The Battle for the Ashes 5x12 -- Oct 25, 2005 -- The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith 5x13 -- Oct 25, 2005 -- The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain 5x14 -- Oct 30, 2005 -- Lost Road: Overland to Singapore 5x15 -- Dec 24, 2005 -- A Study in Sherlock 5x16 -- Dec 26, 2005 -- Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes 5x17 -- Jan 15, 2006 -- Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now 5x18 -- Feb 06, 2006 -- The British Way of Death 5x19 -- Feb 08, 2006 -- Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama 5x20 -- Feb 13, 2006 -- Rude Britannia 5x21 -- Mar 06, 2006 -- The Sun and the Moon 5x22 -- Mar 30, 2006 -- Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films 5x23 -- Feb 23, 2005 -- Pop Svengalis
TIMESHIFT - Season 6 -- 16 Episodes
6x1 -- Apr 01, 2006 -- Switch Off Something 6x2 -- Apr 02, 2006 -- Creating Life on Mars 6x3 -- May 01, 2006 -- The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold 6x4 -- May 10, 2006 -- Carry On Campus 6x5 -- May 13, 2006 -- Machine Men 6x6 -- Aug 01, 2006 -- Oz and Them 6x7 -- Aug 29, 2006 -- Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction 6x8 -- Sep 11, 2006 -- Planet Ping Pong 6x9 -- Nov 28, 2006 -- Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide 6x10 -- Dec 28, 2006 -- Transylvania Babylon 6x11 -- Mar 04, 2007 -- The New Middle Classes 6x12 -- Mar 20, 2007 -- Rover: The Long Goodbye 6x13 -- Mar 24, 2007 -- First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom 6x14 -- Mar 25, 2007 -- Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health 6x15 -- May 26, 2007 -- Goodbye Children Everywhere 6x18 -- May 22, 2006 -- The British Space Race
TIMESHIFT - Season 7 -- 14 Episodes
7x1 -- Apr 18, 2007 -- The Edwardian Larder 7x2 -- Sep 22, 2007 -- How to Be a Good Prime Minister 7x3 -- Oct 01, 2007 -- Gagging for It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy 7x4 -- Oct 05, 2007 -- Whatever Happened to Radio 2? 7x5 -- Oct 12, 2007 -- Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country 7x6 -- Oct 12, 2007 -- Emmylou Harris at the BBC 7x7 -- Oct 21, 2007 -- Archaeology: Digging the Past 7x8 -- Oct 21, 2007 -- Sir Mortimer Wheeler: A Life in Ruins 7x9 -- Nov 21, 2007 -- Watching the Russians 7x10 -- Dec 10, 2007 -- Never Had It So Good? 7x11 -- Dec 13, 2007 -- A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007 7x12 -- Dec 23, 2007 -- Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner 7x13 -- Mar 09, 2008 -- The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man 7x14 -- Jun 09, 2007 -- Time Gentlemen, Please: History of the British Pub
TIMESHIFT - Season 8 -- 8 Episodes
8x1 -- Sep 14, 2008 -- How to Be a Good President 8x2 -- Oct 09, 2008 -- Between the Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film 8x3 -- Oct 16, 2008 -- The Last Days of Steam 8x4 -- Nov 02, 2008 -- How to Write a Mills and Boon 8x5 -- Nov 10, 2008 -- How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword 8x6 -- Dec 22, 2008 -- The Comic Songbook 8x7 -- Jan 22, 2009 -- Fashion Versus the BBC 8x8 -- Apr 09, 2009 -- The North-South Divide
TIMESHIFT - Season 9 -- 9 Episodes
9x1 -- Apr 30, 2009 -- Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science 9x2 -- Oct 22, 2009 -- The Golden Age of Liners 9x3 -- Oct 29, 2009 -- The Men Who Built the Liners 9x4 -- Nov 03, 2009 -- The Last Days of the Liners 9x5 -- Dec 21, 2009 -- How to Win at Chess 9x6 -- Dec 22, 2009 -- Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films 9x7 -- Dec 22, 2009 -- Clement Freud: In His Own Words 9x8 -- Mar 24, 2010 -- Bread: A Loaf Affair 9x9 -- Jun 29, 2010 -- Disappearing Dad
TIMESHIFT - Season 10 -- 9 Episodes
10x1 -- Sep 08, 2010 -- The North on a Plate 10x2 -- Sep 14, 2010 -- 1960: The Year of the North 10x3 -- Oct 05, 2010 -- When Britain Went Wild 10x4 -- Dec 20, 2010 -- Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction 10x5 -- Dec 27, 2010 -- Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction 10x6 -- Jan 05, 2011 -- The Golden Age of Coach Travel 10x7 -- Jan 12, 2011 -- The Modern Age of the Coach 10x8 -- Apr 04, 2011 -- The Story of Corporal Punishment 10x9 -- Apr 05, 2011 -- The Story of Capital Punishment
TIMESHIFT - Season 11 -- 11 Episodes
11x1 -- Apr 03, 2011 -- Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice 11x2 -- Jun 29, 2011 -- Hotel Deluxe 11x3 -- Aug 02, 2011 -- All the Fun of the Fair 11x4 -- Sep 08, 2011 -- When the Circus Comes to Town 11x5 -- Sep 15, 2011 -- The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley 11x6 -- Sep 29, 2011 -- Dear Censor 11x7 -- Nov 03, 2011 -- Antarctica: Of Ice and Men 11x8 -- Dec 05, 2011 -- The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire 11x9 -- Dec 24, 2011 -- Epic: A Cast of Thousands! 11x10 -- Jan 04, 2012 -- The Smoking Years 11x11 -- Jan 11, 2012 -- The Rules of Drinking
TIMESHIFT - Season 12 -- 10 Episodes
12x1 -- Sep 24, 2012 -- Health Before the NHS: The Road to Recovery 12x2 -- Oct 01, 2012 -- Health Before the NHS: A Medical Revolution 12x3 -- Oct 08, 2012 -- Magnificent Machines - The Golden Age of the British Sports Car 12x4 -- Oct 14, 2012 -- Klezmer 12x5 -- Oct 22, 2012 -- The British Army of the Rhine 12x6 -- Dec 13, 2012 -- When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies 12x7 -- Jan 23, 2013 -- The Joy of (Train) Sets - The Model Railway Story 12x8 -- Jan 30, 2013 -- Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo 12x9 -- Feb 24, 2013 -- Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain 12x10 -- Mar 26, 2013 -- How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History
TIMESHIFT - Season 13 -- 7 Episodes
13x1 -- Oct 28, 2013 -- Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes 13x2 -- Nov 04, 2013 -- When Coal Was King 13x3 -- Nov 13, 2013 -- Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain 13x4 -- Nov 20, 2013 -- A Day at the Zoo 13x5 -- Dec 22, 2013 -- The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs That Got Britain Reading 13x6 -- Jan 08, 2014 -- Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather 13x7 -- Jan 12, 2014 -- How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
TIMESHIFT - Season 14 -- 6 Episodes
14x1 -- May 26, 2014 -- Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem 14x2 -- Jul 28, 2014 -- Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather 14x3 -- Dec 15, 2014 -- Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain 14x4 -- Jan 26, 2015 -- Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest 14x5 -- Feb 24, 2015 -- The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail 14x6 -- Mar 11, 2015 -- Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
TIMESHIFT - Season 15 -- 6 Episodes
15x1 -- Sep 02, 2015 -- The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys 15x2 -- Sep 09, 2015 -- A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story 15x3 -- Sep 23, 2015 -- The Engine That Powers the World 15x4 -- Oct 20, 2015 -- The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets 15x5 -- Oct 28, 2015 -- Looking for Mr. Bond: 007 at the BBC 15x6 -- Nov 16, 2015 -- How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank
TIMESHIFT - Season 16 -- 5 Episodes
16x1 -- Oct 19, 2016 -- Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built 16x2 -- Oct 26, 2016 -- Sailors, Ships & Stevedores: The Story of British Docks 16x3 -- Nov 14, 2016 -- Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps 16x4 -- Dec 19, 2016 -- Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop 16x5 -- Feb 07, 2017 -- Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British
TIMESHIFT - Season 17 -- 3 Episodes
17x1 -- Apr 03, 2017 -- Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car 17x2 -- Apr 13, 2017 -- Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service 17x3 -- Apr 20, 2017 -- Dial "B" for Britain: The Story of the Landline
