A series of historical documentaries originally broadcast on BBC Two, but more recently airing on BBC Four.
Rating: 7.70/10 (avg out of 151 votes)
Timewatch Airs: Tuesday
Timewatch Status: Ended
TIMEWATCH - General Information
Series Premiere: September 29, 1982 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Documentary | History Network: BBC Four Airs: Tuesday at 09:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
TIMEWATCH - Season 2 -- 1 Episodes
2x0 -- TBA
TIMEWATCH - Season 6 -- 1 Episodes
6x4 -- TBA
TIMEWATCH - Season 1982 -- 4 Episodes
1982x1 -- Sep 29, 1982 -- Windsors' War 1982x2 -- Oct 27, 1982 -- Episode 2 1982x3 -- Nov 24, 1982 -- Episode 3 1982x4 -- Dec 22, 1982 -- Episode 4
1985x1 -- Feb 06, 1985 -- The Age of Charles II 1985x2 -- Dec 05, 1985 -- Magic Circles
TIMEWATCH - Season 1986 -- 2 Episodes
1986x1 -- Mar 06, 1986 -- The Master Builders 1986x2 -- Apr 03, 1986 -- Most Dangerous Women
TIMEWATCH - Season 1987 -- 2 Episodes
1987x1 -- Apr 30, 1987 -- Fateful Century 1987x2 -- Dec 09, 1987 -- Judgement in Jerusalem
TIMEWATCH - Season 1988 -- 10 Episodes
1988x1 -- Jan 06, 1988 -- Evidence of Neglect 1988x2 -- Feb 03, 1988 -- Wars of the Word 1988x3 -- Mar 02, 1988 -- The Man in the Iron Mask 1988x4 -- Mar 30, 1988 -- The Hunger Winter 1988x5 -- Jun 01, 1988 -- Dishonour and Death 1988x6 -- Jul 27, 1988 -- Shreds of Evidence 1988x7 -- Sep 07, 1988 -- Shadow of the Ripper 1988x8 -- Oct 05, 1988 -- A Woman's Story 1988x9 -- Nov 09, 1988 -- Vision of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution 1988x10 -- Dec 07, 1988 -- Bukharin and the Terror
TIMEWATCH - Season 1989 -- 11 Episodes
1989x1 -- Jan 11, 1989 -- Light in the Dark 1989x2 -- Feb 08, 1989 -- An Age of Empire 1989x3 -- Apr 05, 1989 -- Sacrifice at Pearl Harbour 1989x4 -- May 03, 1989 -- Playing with History 1989x5 -- May 31, 1989 -- Witnesses 1989x6 -- Jul 27, 1989 -- The Night of the Long Knives 1989x7 -- Aug 09, 1989 -- Summer of the Bomb 1989x8 -- Sep 06, 1989 -- The Land of Lost Content 1989x9 -- Oct 04, 1989 -- Trotsky 1989x10 -- Nov 01, 1989 -- Fascist Legacy: A Promise Fulfilled 1989x11 -- Nov 08, 1989 -- Fascist Legacy: A Pledge Betrayed
TIMEWATCH - Season 1990 -- 11 Episodes
1990x1 -- Jan 17, 1990 -- An Edge of Conspiracy 1990x2 -- Feb 21, 1990 -- Napoleon's Last Battle 1990x3 -- Mar 21, 1990 -- Hungary: The End of Silence 1990x4 -- Sep 05, 1990 -- Accounts of a Forgotten Army 1990x5 -- Sep 19, 1990 -- Helping the Police with Their Enquiries 1990x6 -- Oct 03, 1990 -- The Sipán Affair 1990x7 -- Oct 17, 1990 -- I Don't Want to Be Remembered as a Chair 1990x8 -- Oct 31, 1990 -- All the King's Jews 1990x9 -- Nov 14, 1990 -- A War Far from Home 1990x10 -- Nov 28, 1990 -- One of the Reasons Why 1990x11 -- Dec 12, 1990 -- White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave
TIMEWATCH - Season 1991 -- 14 Episodes
1991x1 -- Jan 23, 1991 -- Savagery and the American Indian - Wilderness 1991x2 -- Jan 30, 1991 -- Savagery and the American Indian - Civilisation 1991x3 -- Feb 13, 1991 -- The Man Who Made the Supergun 1991x4 -- Feb 27, 1991 -- The Reluctant Comrade 1991x5 -- Mar 13, 1991 -- The Transmission of Roger Bacon 1991x6 -- Mar 27, 1991 -- Palestine: The First Intifada 1991x7 -- Apr 10, 1991 -- The Cold War 1991x8 -- Sep 18, 1991 -- Beside Franco in Spain 1991x9 -- Oct 02, 1991 -- Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain 1991x10 -- Oct 16, 1991 -- The Columbus Conspiracy 1991x11 -- Oct 30, 1991 -- Harvests of Iron: The Watch on the Somme 1991x12 -- Nov 06, 1991 -- Harvests of Iron: The Theatre of Operations 1991x13 -- Nov 20, 1991 -- Suffer the Children 1991x14 -- Dec 18, 1991 -- The Spoils of War
TIMEWATCH - Season 1992 -- 20 Episodes
1992x1 -- Jan 15, 1992 -- Battle of the Styles 1992x2 -- Jan 29, 1992 -- Kwai 1992x3 -- Feb 26, 1992 -- Churchill's Man? 1992x4 -- Mar 04, 1992 -- His Own Man 1992x5 -- Mar 11, 1992 -- Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back 1992x6 -- Apr 01, 1992 -- The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Forgotten Fatherland 1992x7 -- Apr 08, 1992 -- The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Mother of the Fatherland 1992x8 -- Jun 03, 1992 -- SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 1992x9 -- Jun 10, 1992 -- Gladio: The Ringmasters 1992x10 -- Jun 17, 1992 -- Gladio: The Puppeteers 1992x11 -- Jun 24, 1992 -- Gladio: The Foot Soldiers 1992x12 -- Sep 02, 1992 -- The Un-Americans: Five Minutes to Midnight 1992x13 -- Sep 09, 1992 -- The Un-Americans: No Place to Hide 1992x14 -- Sep 16, 1992 -- The Un-Americans: To Hell with Truth 1992x15 -- Sep 23, 1992 -- A Diplomat in Japan: A Clash of Cultures 1992x16 -- Sep 20, 1992 -- A Diplomat in Japan: Witness to a Revolution 1992x17 -- Oct 07, 1992 -- Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam 1992x18 -- Oct 14, 1992 -- Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball 1992x19 -- Oct 21, 1992 -- Sold Down the River 1992x20 -- Oct 28, 1992 -- Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness
TIMEWATCH - Season 1993 -- 14 Episodes
1993x1 -- Jan 13, 1993 -- Allied to the Mafia 1993x2 -- Jan 27, 1993 -- The Sparks that Lit the Bonfire 1993x3 -- Feb 10, 1993 -- The Stolen Child 1993x4 -- Feb 24, 1993 -- The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover 1993x5 -- Mar 10, 1993 -- The Pill: Prescription for Revolution 1993x6 -- Mar 24, 1993 -- Buffalo Bill 1993x7 -- Apr 07, 1993 -- Battle of the Bombers 1993x8 -- Jun 02, 1993 -- On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging 1993x9 -- Sep 15, 1993 -- True Story of the Roman Arena 1993x10 -- Sep 29, 1993 -- The Mother of All Battles 1993x11 -- Oct 13, 1993 -- Hunger Strike: A Hidden History 1993x12 -- Nov 10, 1993 -- Children of the Third Reich 1993x13 -- Nov 21, 1993 -- The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald 1993x14 -- Dec 20, 1993 -- Chairman Mao - The Last Emperor
TIMEWATCH - Season 1994 -- 13 Episodes
1994x1 -- Jan 12, 1994 -- Forgotten Heroes - Merchant Seamen at War 1994x2 -- Oct 26, 1994 -- The Real Rasputin 1994x3 -- Feb 09, 1994 -- Spies in the Sky 1994x4 -- Mar 09, 1994 -- Presumed Guilty – A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 1994x5 -- Apr 06, 1994 -- Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration 1994x6 -- Jun 26, 1994 -- Seeds of War 1994x7 -- Nov 06, 1994 -- The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition 1994x8 -- Nov 13, 1994 -- Hitler's Secret Weapons 1994x9 -- Nov 20, 1994 -- Flames of War 1994x10 -- Nov 27, 1994 -- Age of the Sphinx 1994x11 -- Dec 04, 1994 -- Krushchev – The Peasant Premier 1994x12 -- Dec 11, 1994 -- Memo from Machiavelli – How to Succeed in British Politics 1994x13 -- Dec 18, 1994 -- Typhoid Mary
TIMEWATCH - Season 1995 -- 12 Episodes
1995x1 -- Jan 11, 1995 -- Out of the Ashes 1995x2 -- Mar 23, 1995 -- Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam 1995x3 -- Mar 30, 1995 -- The BBC in Vietnam 1995x4 -- Apr 15, 1995 -- The Life and Lives of Oscar Wilde 1995x5 -- Apr 30, 1995 -- Hitler's Death: The Final Report 1995x6 -- Jul 23, 1995 -- Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns 1995x7 -- Oct 08, 1995 -- Evidence of Vikings 1995x8 -- Oct 15, 1995 -- Pocahontas: Her True Story 1995x9 -- Oct 22, 1995 -- Kamikaze 1995x10 -- Oct 29, 1995 -- Quiet Revolution 1995x11 -- Nov 05, 1995 -- The Projection Racket 1995x12 -- Nov 12, 1995 -- Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WWI?
TIMEWATCH - Season 1996 -- 13 Episodes
1996x1 -- Jan 14, 1996 -- Karnak - A Hidden History 1996x2 -- Jan 21, 1996 -- Russia's Secret War 1996x3 -- Jan 28, 1996 -- Drake's Last Voyage 1996x4 -- Feb 04, 1996 -- Bad Boys 1996x5 -- Feb 11, 1996 -- Voices of Victorian London 1996x6 -- Jul 03, 1996 -- Haig: The Unknown Soldier 1996x7 -- Sep 10, 1996 -- Hannibal and Desert Storm 1996x8 -- Sep 17, 1996 -- The History of a Mystery 1996x9 -- Sep 24, 1996 -- Gold Rush Memories 1996x10 -- Oct 01, 1996 -- Stalin's Foreign Slaves 1996x11 -- Oct 08, 1996 -- Baiting the Bear 1996x12 -- Oct 15, 1996 -- Remember Aberfan 1996x13 -- Oct 22, 1996 -- Cry Hungary
TIMEWATCH - Season 1997 -- 15 Episodes
1997x1 -- Feb 25, 1997 -- Love Story 1997x2 -- Mar 04, 1997 -- Before Columbus 1997x3 -- Mar 11, 1997 -- Secret Memories 1997x4 -- Mar 18, 1997 -- The Boer War: The First Media War 1997x5 -- Mar 25, 1997 -- Birth Story 1997x6 -- Apr 01, 1997 -- Forgotten Allies 1997x7 -- Apr 18, 1997 -- Back to the Iron Age 1997x8 -- Oct 28, 1997 -- The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai 1997x9 -- Nov 04, 1997 -- Lords of the Maya 1997x10 -- Nov 11, 1997 -- Alison: A Personal History 1997x11 -- Nov 18, 1997 -- The Gentlemen Spies 1997x12 -- Nov 25, 1997 -- The African Trade 1997x13 -- Dec 02, 1997 -- Lenin's Secret Files 1997x14 -- Dec 09, 1997 -- Remember the Ugandan Asians 1997x15 -- Dec 16, 1997 -- In Search of Cleopatra
TIMEWATCH - Season 1998 -- 12 Episodes
1998x1 -- Apr 07, 1998 -- Hitler and the Invasion of Britain 1998x2 -- Apr 14, 1998 -- Grammar School Boys 1998x3 -- Apr 21, 1998 -- The Oklahoma Outlaw 1998x4 -- Apr 28, 1998 -- The Roman Way of War 1998x5 -- May 05, 1998 -- Las Vegas and the Mormons 1998x6 -- May 12, 1998 -- Aborigine - A Collision of Conscience 1998x7 -- Sep 29, 1998 -- Sex and War 1998x8 -- Oct 06, 1998 -- Lloyd George's War 1998x9 -- Oct 13, 1998 -- The Pilgrim Obsession 1998x10 -- Oct 27, 1998 -- Banking with Hitler 1998x11 -- Oct 27, 1998 -- The British in India 1998x12 -- Nov 03, 1998 -- An American Firefight
TIMEWATCH - Season 1999 -- 12 Episodes
1999x1 -- Apr 17, 1999 -- Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax 1999x2 -- Apr 24, 1999 -- The Crossing 1999x3 -- May 01, 1999 -- Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs 1999x4 -- May 08, 1999 -- The Lost Temple of Java 1999x5 -- May 22, 1999 -- Sleeping with the Enemy 1999x6 -- May 29, 1999 -- Before the Titanic 1999x7 -- Jun 05, 1999 -- The Forgotten Volunteers 1999x8 -- Jun 26, 1999 -- Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle 1999x9 -- Oct 02, 1999 -- The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War 1999x10 -- Nov 06, 1999 -- Ivan the Terrible 1999x11 -- Nov 20, 1999 -- Tales of the Eiffel Tower 1999x12 -- Dec 04, 1999 -- A Very British Mutiny
TIMEWATCH - Season 2000 -- 2 Episodes
2000x1 -- Jan 08, 2000 -- The Germans We Kept 2000x2 -- Apr 29, 2000 -- Brazil: An Inconvenient History
TIMEWATCH - Season 2001 -- 12 Episodes
2001x1 -- Jan 12, 2001 -- The Empire State Story 2001x2 -- Jan 19, 2001 -- Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich 2001x3 -- Jan 26, 2001 -- The King's Servant 2001x4 -- Feb 02, 2001 -- Nero's Golden House 2001x5 -- Feb 09, 2001 -- Public Enemy Number One 2001x6 -- Feb 16, 2001 -- Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers 2001x7 -- May 11, 2001 -- The Last Surrender 2001x8 -- May 18, 2001 -- Debutantes 2001x9 -- May 25, 2001 -- Strangeways Revisited 2001x10 -- Jun 01, 2001 -- Scharnhorst 2001x11 -- Jun 08, 2001 -- Roman Soldiers to Be 2001x12 -- Aug 23, 2001 -- Bombing Germany
TIMEWATCH - Season 2002 -- 12 Episodes
2002x1 -- Jan 04, 2002 -- The Making of Adolf Hitler 2002x2 -- Jan 11, 2002 -- Mystery of the Iron Bridge 2002x3 -- Jan 18, 2002 -- Death of the Battleship 2002x4 -- Feb 01, 2002 -- Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea 2002x5 -- Feb 08, 2002 -- Jubilee Day 2002x6 -- Apr 19, 2002 -- Myths of the Titanic 2002x7 -- May 04, 2002 -- The Victorian Way of Death 2002x8 -- May 10, 2002 -- Battle for Berlin 2002x9 -- Aug 09, 2002 -- Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad 2002x10 -- Aug 16, 2002 -- The Myth of Custer's Last Stand 2002x11 -- Sep 06, 2002 -- Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt 2002x12 -- Dec 14, 2002 -- Murder at Harvard
TIMEWATCH - Season 2003 -- 13 Episodes
2003x1 -- Jan 10, 2003 -- White Slaves, Pirate Gold 2003x2 -- Jan 17, 2003 -- Lost Cities of the Maya 2003x3 -- Jan 24, 2003 -- Rocket and Its Rivals 2003x4 -- Jan 31, 2003 -- Ramesses III: Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh 2003x5 -- Feb 07, 2003 -- 1914: The War Revolution 2003x6 -- Jun 29, 2003 -- Concorde: A Love Story 2003x7 -- Oct 24, 2003 -- Zulu: The True Story 2003x8 -- Oct 31, 2003 -- The Greatest Storm 2003x9 -- Nov 07, 2003 -- The Last Tomb Raider 2003x10 -- Nov 14, 2003 -- Mystery of the Missing Ace 2003x11 -- Nov 21, 2003 -- Britain's Greatest Hoax - Piltdown Man 2003x12 -- Nov 28, 2003 -- Gallipoli: The First D-Day 2003x13 -- Dec 05, 2003 -- Through Hell for Hitler
TIMEWATCH - Season 2004 -- 11 Episodes
2004x1 -- Jan 09, 2004 -- Britain's X Files 2004x2 -- Jan 16, 2004 -- The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold 2004x3 -- Jan 23, 2004 -- The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari 2004x4 -- Jan 30, 2004 -- The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship 2004x5 -- Feb 06, 2004 -- How Mad Was King George? 2004x6 -- Oct 01, 2004 -- Who Killed Rasputin? 2004x7 -- Oct 08, 2004 -- The Lost Heroes 2004x8 -- Oct 15, 2004 -- The Mystery of the Black Death 2004x9 -- Oct 22, 2004 -- The Black Pharaohs 2004x10 -- Oct 29, 2004 -- The Secrets of the Mary Rose 2004x11 -- Nov 05, 2004 -- Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle
TIMEWATCH - Season 2005 -- 12 Episodes
2005x1 -- Jan 29, 2005 -- Who Killed Ivan the Terrible? 2005x2 -- Mar 04, 2005 -- Murder in Rome 2005x3 -- Mar 11, 2005 -- Who Killed Stalin? 2005x4 -- Mar 26, 2005 -- Princess Margaret: A Love Story 2005x5 -- Apr 02, 2005 -- The Killer Wave of 1607 2005x6 -- May 20, 2005 -- Britain's Lost Colosseum 2005x7 -- May 27, 2005 -- The Year without Summer 2005x8 -- Jul 01, 2005 -- Emperor Hirohito 2005x9 -- Nov 04, 2005 -- The Gunpowder Plot 2005x10 -- Nov 11, 2005 -- Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields 2005x11 -- Nov 18, 2005 -- Children of the Doomed Voyage 2005x12 -- Nov 25, 2005 -- Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler
TIMEWATCH - Season 2006 -- 12 Episodes
2006x1 -- Jan 20, 2006 -- The Bog Bodies 2006x2 -- Jan 27, 2006 -- Battle of the River Plate 2006x3 -- Feb 03, 2006 -- The Floating Brothel 2006x4 -- Feb 24, 2006 -- Unknown Soldiers 2006x5 -- Mar 03, 2006 -- Missing in Action 2006x6 -- Mar 10, 2006 -- The Secret History of Genghis Khan 2006x7 -- Apr 14, 2006 -- The Crusader's Lost Fort 2006x8 -- Apr 21, 2006 -- Mystery of the Headless Romans 2006x9 -- Apr 28, 2006 -- Battle for Warsaw 2006x10 -- May 05, 2006 -- The Iron Coffin 2006x11 -- May 12, 2006 -- San Francisco's Great Quake 2006x12 -- May 19, 2006 -- The Princess Spy
TIMEWATCH - Season 2007 -- 12 Episodes
2007x1 -- Jan 05, 2007 -- The Hunt for U-864 2007x2 -- Jan 12, 2007 -- Beatlemania 2007x3 -- Jan 19, 2007 -- Killer Cloud 2007x4 -- Jan 26, 2007 -- Hadrian's Wall 2007x5 -- Feb 02, 2007 -- Zeppelin: The First Blitz 2007x6 -- Feb 09, 2007 -- The Last Duel 2007x7 -- Apr 02, 2007 -- Remember the Galahad 2007x8 -- Apr 06, 2007 -- Hijack 2007x9 -- Apr 16, 2007 -- The Hidden Children 2007x10 -- Apr 20, 2007 -- The Wave that Destroyed Atlantis 2007x11 -- May 11, 2007 -- Gladiator Graveyard 2007x12 -- May 18, 2007 -- The People's Coronation
TIMEWATCH - Season 2008 -- 11 Episodes
2008x1 -- Jan 05, 2008 -- Viking Voyage 2008x2 -- Jan 06, 2008 -- Bloody Omaha 2008x3 -- Jan 12, 2008 -- The Wreckers 2008x4 -- Jan 19, 2008 -- The Greatest Knight 2008x5 -- Jan 26, 2008 -- The Pharaoh's Lost City 2008x6 -- Feb 02, 2008 -- Ten Pound Poms 2008x7 -- Sep 27, 2008 -- Stonehenge: The Healing Stones 2008x8 -- Oct 04, 2008 -- Britain's Forgotten Floods 2008x9 -- Oct 11, 2008 -- The Boxer Rebellion 2008x10 -- Oct 18, 2008 -- Young Victoria 2008x11 -- Nov 01, 2008 -- The Last Day of World War One
TIMEWATCH - Season 2009 -- 9 Episodes
2009x1 -- Feb 21, 2009 -- Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns 2009x2 -- Feb 28, 2009 -- QE2 - The Final Voyage 2009x3 -- Mar 07, 2009 -- The Real Bonnie and Clyde 2009x4 -- Mar 14, 2009 -- Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend 2009x5 -- Mar 21, 2009 -- WWI Aces Falling 2009x6 -- Mar 28, 2009 -- Pyramid - The Last Secret 2009x7 -- Apr 04, 2009 -- In Shackleton's Footsteps 2009x8 -- Jul 04, 2009 -- The Prince and the Plotter 2009x9 -- Oct 06, 2009 -- Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry
TIMEWATCH - Season 2010 -- 1 Episodes
2010x1 -- Jun 10, 2010 -- Atlantis: The Evidence
TIMEWATCH - Season 2011 -- 4 Episodes
2011x1 -- Oct 25, 2011 -- Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes 2011x2 -- Nov 01, 2011 -- The Most Courageous Raid of WWII 2011x3 -- Nov 08, 2011 -- Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams 2011x4 -- Nov 15, 2011 -- Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story
TIMEWATCH - Season 2015 -- 3 Episodes
2015x1 -- Feb 03, 2015 -- The Mary Rose 2015x2 -- Feb 10, 2015 -- Cleopatra 2015x3 -- Feb 17, 2015 -- Roman Britain
TIMEWATCH - Season 2016 -- 7 Episodes
2016x1 -- Jan 27, 2016 -- Stonehenge 2016x2 -- Feb 03, 2016 -- The Crusades 2016x3 -- Feb 10, 2016 -- Queen Elizabeth I 2016x4 -- Feb 25, 2016 -- World War Two 2016x5 -- Nov 08, 2016 -- Crime and Punishment 2016x6 -- Nov 15, 2016 -- Women, Sex and Society 2016x7 -- Nov 22, 2016 -- Russia: A Century of Suspicion
TIMEWATCH - Season 2017 -- 5 Episodes
2017x1 -- Feb 01, 2017 -- British Empire: Heroes and Villains 2017x2 -- Jul 13, 2017 -- Decoding Disaster 2017x3 -- Jul 18, 2017 -- The Vikings: Foe or Friend? 2017x4 -- Jul 25, 2017 -- Dictators and Despots 2017x5 -- Aug 01, 2017 -- Explorers: Conquest and Calamity
