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[[File:TimeTeam2007.jpg|thumb|From left to right: [[Tony Robinson]], [[Mick Aston]], and [[Guy de la Bédoyère]] in 2007]]
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|+ Time Team Members<br/>''(Incomplete list)''
|+ Time Team Members<br/>''(Incomplete list)''
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! Name !! Occupation !! Time Team Role !! Notes
! Name !! Occupation !! Role  
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| [[Tim Taylor (producer)|Tim Taylor]] || Creator || Executive Producer ||
| [[Tim Taylor (producer)|Tim Taylor]] || Creator || Executive Producer  
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| Sir [[Tony Robinson]]|| Actor & Presenter || Presenter ||
| Sir [[Tony Robinson]]|| Actor & Presenter || Presenter  
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| [[Mick Aston]] || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor || (Deceased)
| [[Mick Aston]] || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor  
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| [[Phil Harding (archaeologist)|Phil Harding]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist ||
| [[Phil Harding (archaeologist)|Phil Harding]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| [[Carenza Lewis]] || Archaeologist || Strategist ||
| [[Carenza Lewis]] || Archaeologist || Strategist  
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| [[Robin Bush]] || Historian ||  Historical Specialist || (Deceased)
| [[Robin Bush]] || Historian ||  Historical Specialist  
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| [[Stewart Ainsworth]] || Archaeologist || Landscape Archaeologist ||
| [[Stewart Ainsworth]] || Archaeologist || Landscape Archaeologist  
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| [[John Gater]] || Geophysicist || [[Geophysical survey (archaeology)|Archaeological Geophysics]] ||
| [[John Gater]] || Geophysicist || [[Geophysical survey (archaeology)|Archaeological Geophysics]]  
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| [[Christopher Gaffney (archaeologist)|Chris Gaffney]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| [[Christopher Gaffney (archaeologist)|Chris Gaffney]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| [[Helen Geake]] || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br />Small Finds  || (Also PodCast Presenter)
| [[Helen Geake]] || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br />Small Finds   
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| [[Victor Ambrus]] || Illustrator || Archaeological Illustrator || (Deceased)
| [[Victor Ambrus]] || Illustrator || Archaeological Illustrator  
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| [[Raksha Dave]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist || (Former Member)
| [[Raksha Dave]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| Matt Williams || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist ||
| Matt Williams || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| Tracey Smith || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist || (Former Member)
| Tracey Smith || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| Brigid Gallagher || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist || (Former Member)
| Brigid Gallagher || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| [[Jacqueline McKinley|Jackie McKinley]] || Osteoarchaeologist|| Bones Specialist ||
| [[Jacqueline McKinley|Jackie McKinley]] || Osteoarchaeologist|| Bones Specialist  
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| [[Derek Pitman]] || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br/>Archaeologist ||
| [[Derek Pitman]] || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br/>Archaeologist  
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| [[Lawrence Shaw (archaeologist)|Lawrence Shaw]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist ||
| [[Lawrence Shaw (archaeologist)|Lawrence Shaw]] || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| [[Francis Pryor]] || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor ||
| [[Francis Pryor]] || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor  
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| [[Beric Morley]] || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist || (Deceased)
| [[Beric Morley]] || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist  
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| Henry Chapman || Surveyor || Survey Specialist ||
| Henry Chapman || Surveyor || Survey Specialist  
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| [[Guy de la Bédoyère]] || Romanist || Roman Specialist ||
| [[Guy de la Bédoyère]] || Romanist || Roman Specialist  
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| [[Jonathan Foyle]] || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist || (Former Member)
| [[Jonathan Foyle]] || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist  
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| Paul Blinkhorn || Archaeologist || Pottery Specialist || (Former Member)
| Paul Blinkhorn || Archaeologist || Pottery Specialist  
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| Mark Corney || [[Numismatist]] || Coin Specialist ||
| Mark Corney || [[Numismatist]] || Coin Specialist  
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| Carl Thorpe || || Pottery Specialist ||
| Carl Thorpe || || Pottery Specialist  
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| Mick Worthington || [[dendrochronology|Dendrochronologist]] || Wood Dating Specialist || (Formerly Digger)
| Mick Worthington || [[dendrochronology|Dendrochronologist]] || Wood Dating Specialist  
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| Margaret Cox || Osteoarcheologist || [[forensic archaeology|Forensic Archaeology]] Specialist || (Former Member)
| Margaret Cox || Osteoarcheologist || [[forensic archaeology|Forensic Archaeology]] Specialist  
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| [[Bettany Hughes]] || Historian || Historical Specialist ||
| [[Bettany Hughes]] || Historian || Historical Specialist  
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| [[Gustav Milne]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| [[Gustav Milne]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| [[Ben Robinson]] || Archaeologist || East of England Specialist ||
| [[Ben Robinson]] || Archaeologist || East of England Specialist  
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| Richard K. Morriss || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist
| Richard K. Morriss || [[Architectural historian|Architectural Historian]] || Architecture Specialist
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| David S. Neal || Romanist || Roman [[Mosaic]] Specialist ||
| David S. Neal || Romanist || Roman [[Mosaic]] Specialist  
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| [[Mary-Ann Ochota]] || Presenter || Presenter || (Former Member)
| [[Mary-Ann Ochota]] || Presenter || Presenter  
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| Neil Holbrook || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor ||
| Neil Holbrook || Archaeologist || Site Supervisor  
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| [[Philippa Walton (archaeologist)|Philippa Walton]] || Archaeologist || Coins and Small Finds Specialist ||
| [[Philippa Walton (archaeologist)|Philippa Walton]] || Archaeologist || Coins and Small Finds Specialist  
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| Sam Newton || Historian || Historical Specialist ||
| Sam Newton || Historian || Historical Specialist  
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| Jenni Butterworth || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Jenni Butterworth || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| Kerry Ely || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Kerry Ely || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| Rob Hedge || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Rob Hedge || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| Katie Hirst || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Katie Hirst || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| [[Alex Langlands]] || Archaeologist || Landscape Archaeologist || (Former Member)
| [[Alex Langlands]] || Archaeologist || Landscape Archaeologist  
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| [[Cassie Newland]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| [[Cassie Newland]] || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| Ian Powlesland || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Ian Powlesland || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| [[Alice Roberts]] || Doctor || Bone Specialist || (Former Member)
| [[Alice Roberts]] || Doctor || Bone Specialist  
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| Faye Simpson || Archaeologist || Archaeologist ||
| Faye Simpson || Archaeologist || Archaeologist  
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| Barney Sloane || || ||
| Barney Sloane || ||  
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| Martyn Williams || Broadcaster || Podcast Presenter ||
| Martyn Williams || Broadcaster || Podcast Presenter  
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| Keith Wescott || Metal Detectorist || Metal Detector Specialist ||
| Keith Wescott || Metal Detectorist || Metal Detector Specialist  
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| Dani Wootton || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br />Finds Specialist || (News Presenter)
| Dani Wootton || Archaeologist || Presenter,<br />Finds Specialist  
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| Giselle Király || Archaeologist || WWII Specialist ||
| Giselle Király || Archaeologist || WWII Specialist  
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| Richard Parker || Archaeologist || Buildings Archaeologist ||
| Richard Parker || Archaeologist || Buildings Archaeologist  
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| Meg Russell || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist ||
| Meg Russell || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| Raysan al-Kubaisi || Designer and Architect || Graphics Specialist||
| Raysan al-Kubaisi || Designer and Architect || Graphics Specialist
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| Gus Casely-Hayford || Cultural Historian || Presenter ||
| Gus Casely-Hayford || Cultural Historian || Presenter  
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| Naomi Sewpaul || Archaeologist || Environmental Archaeologist, Float Tank Specialist ||
| Naomi Sewpaul || Archaeologist || Environmental Archaeologist, Float Tank Specialist  
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| Richard Osgood || Archaeologist || War Specialist ||
| Richard Osgood || Archaeologist || War Specialist  
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| Hilde Van der Heul || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist ||
| Hilde Van der Heul || Archaeologist || Field Archaeologist  
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| ShortSummary = Helen and Martyn are at Flag Fen, where a fire has destroyed a volunteer-built roundhouse on the ancient archaeological site. Helen sees the damage for herself. Jacq Barnard from The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company has an update on the work that's underway to reconstruct the Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the mounds at Sutton Hoo. With the [[Bayeux Tapestry]] coming to the UK, Helen and Martyn speak to Dr Alexandra Makin, a medieval embroidery expert. Dani Wootton has Time Team News, and Helen is answering more questions from Time Team members.
| ShortSummary = Helen and Martyn are at Flag Fen, where a fire has destroyed a volunteer-built roundhouse on the ancient archaeological site. Helen sees the damage for herself. Jacq Barnard from The Sutton Hoo Ship's Company has an update on the work that's underway to reconstruct the Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the mounds at Sutton Hoo. With the [[Bayeux Tapestry]] coming to the UK, Helen and Martyn speak to Dr Alexandra Makin, a medieval embroidery expert. Dani Wootton has Time Team News, and Helen is answering more questions from Time Team members.
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| ShortSummary = This episode Dr Helen Geake answers more of your questions, including whether special vaccinations are needed to dig up ancient human remains and how necessary it is to cut down vegetation to conduct a geophysical survey. Helen's Find also returns, with an object close to Helen's heart.  
| ShortSummary = This episode Dr Helen Geake answers more of your questions, including whether special vaccinations are needed to dig up ancient human remains and how necessary it is to cut down vegetation to conduct a geophysical survey. Helen's Find also returns, with an object close to Helen's heart.
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File:TimeTeam2007.jpg
From left to right: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, and Guy de la Bédoyère in 2007
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Aston with producer Tim Taylor in 2005
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Aston and Robinson, Time Team Series 8 shoot at Waltham Fields, Whittington, Gloucestershire, England, 2000, transmitted 2001

Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned in 2022 on online platforms YouTube and Patreon. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. The specialists changed throughout the programme's run, although it consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War.

In October 2012, Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013.[1] Series 20 was screened from January–March 2013 and nine specials were screened between May 2013 and September 2014. In May 2021, Taylor announced the return of the series, with free episodes to be shown on YouTube.[2] The first episodes of the revival began appearing on YouTube in 2022.

Series overview

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Team members

A team of archaeologists, usually led by Mick Aston or Francis Pryor (the latter usually heading Bronze Age and Iron Age digs), and including field archaeologist Phil Harding, congregate at a site, usually in Britain. The original Time Team line-up from 1994 changed over the years. Historian and archivist Robin Bush was a regular in the first nine series, having been involved with the programme through his long friendship with Aston. Architectural historian Beric Morley featured in ten episodes between 1995 and 2002.[3] In 2005, Carenza Lewis left to pursue other interests and was replaced by Helen Geake, an Anglo-Saxon specialist. The regular team also included[4] Stewart Ainsworth, landscape investigator; John Gater and Chris Gaffney, archaeological geophysicists; Henry Chapman, surveyor; and Victor Ambrus, illustrator.

The team was supplemented by experts appropriate for the period and type of site. Guy de la Bédoyère has often been present for Roman digs, as well as those involving the Second World War (such as D-Day), and aircraft (such as the Spitfire). Architectural historian Jonathan Foyle has appeared in episodes relating to excavations of country estates. Paul Blinkhorn (pottery), Mark Corney (coins), Carl Thorpe (pottery), and Jackie McKinley (bones) have appeared from time to time. Mick 'the dig' Worthington, an excavator in the early series, occasionally returned as a dendrochronologist, whereupon he was dubbed 'Mick the twig'. Osteoarcheologist Margaret Cox often assisted with forensic archaeology, mainly between 1998 and 2005. Other specialists who appeared from time to time include historian Bettany Hughes, archaeologist Gustav Milne, East of England specialist Ben Robinson, architectural historian Richard K. Morriss, and David S. Neal, expert on Roman mosaics. Local historians also joined in.

In February 2012, it was announced that Aston had left the show because of format changes. The disputed changes included hiring anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota as a co-presenter, dispensing with other archaeologists and what he thought were plans to "cut down the informative stuff about the archaeology".[5][6] "The time had come to leave. I never made any money out of it, but a lot of my soul went into it. I feel really, really angry about it," he told British Archaeology magazine.[5] Time Team producer Tim Taylor released a statement in response to the news reports saying "His concerns are of great importance to me. We have addressed some of them" and that "you've not heard the last of Mick on Time Team".[7]

Regular team members in later years included archaeologist Neil Holbrook, Roman coins specialist Philippa Walton, and historian Sam Newton. Younger members of Time Team who made regular appearances include Jenni Butterworth, Raksha Dave,[4][8] Kerry Ely, Brigid Gallagher, Rob Hedge, Katie Hirst, Alex Langlands, Cassie Newland, Ian Powlesland, Alice Roberts, Faye Simpson,[9] Barney Sloane, Tracey Smith, and Matt Williams.[10][11][12]

Members

Time Team Members
(Incomplete list)
Name Occupation Role
Tim Taylor Creator Executive Producer
Sir Tony Robinson Actor & Presenter Presenter
Mick Aston Archaeologist Site Supervisor
Phil Harding Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Carenza Lewis Archaeologist Strategist
Robin Bush Historian Historical Specialist
Stewart Ainsworth Archaeologist Landscape Archaeologist
John Gater Geophysicist Archaeological Geophysics
Chris Gaffney Archaeologist Archaeologist
Helen Geake Archaeologist Presenter,
Small Finds
Victor Ambrus Illustrator Archaeological Illustrator
Raksha Dave Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Matt Williams Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Tracey Smith Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Brigid Gallagher Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Jackie McKinley Osteoarchaeologist Bones Specialist
Derek Pitman Archaeologist Presenter,
Archaeologist
Lawrence Shaw Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Francis Pryor Archaeologist Site Supervisor
Beric Morley Architectural Historian Architecture Specialist
Henry Chapman Surveyor Survey Specialist
Guy de la Bédoyère Romanist Roman Specialist
Jonathan Foyle Architectural Historian Architecture Specialist
Paul Blinkhorn Archaeologist Pottery Specialist
Mark Corney Numismatist Coin Specialist
Carl Thorpe Pottery Specialist
Mick Worthington Dendrochronologist Wood Dating Specialist
Margaret Cox Osteoarcheologist Forensic Archaeology Specialist
Bettany Hughes Historian Historical Specialist
Gustav Milne Archaeologist Archaeologist
Ben Robinson Archaeologist East of England Specialist
Richard K. Morriss Architectural Historian Architecture Specialist
David S. Neal Romanist Roman Mosaic Specialist
Mary-Ann Ochota Presenter Presenter
Neil Holbrook Archaeologist Site Supervisor
Philippa Walton Archaeologist Coins and Small Finds Specialist
Sam Newton Historian Historical Specialist
Jenni Butterworth Archaeologist Archaeologist
Kerry Ely Archaeologist Archaeologist
Rob Hedge Archaeologist Archaeologist
Katie Hirst Archaeologist Archaeologist
Alex Langlands Archaeologist Landscape Archaeologist
Cassie Newland Archaeologist Archaeologist
Ian Powlesland Archaeologist Archaeologist
Alice Roberts Doctor Bone Specialist
Faye Simpson Archaeologist Archaeologist
Barney Sloane
Martyn Williams Broadcaster Podcast Presenter
Keith Wescott Metal Detectorist Metal Detector Specialist
Dani Wootton Archaeologist Presenter,
Finds Specialist
Giselle Király Archaeologist WWII Specialist
Richard Parker Archaeologist Buildings Archaeologist
Meg Russell Archaeologist Field Archaeologist
Raysan al-Kubaisi Designer and Architect Graphics Specialist
Gus Casely-Hayford Cultural Historian Presenter
Naomi Sewpaul Archaeologist Environmental Archaeologist, Float Tank Specialist
Richard Osgood Archaeologist War Specialist
Hilde Van der Heul Archaeologist Field Archaeologist

Production

Time Team developed from an earlier Channel 4 programme, Time Signs, first broadcast in 1991. Produced by Taylor, Time Signs had featured Aston and Harding, who went on to appear on Time Team. Following Time Signs' cancellation, Taylor went on to develop a more attractive format, producing the idea for Time Team, which Channel 4 also picked up, broadcasting the first series in 1994. Time Team has had many companion shows during its run, including Time Team Extra (1998), History Hunters (1998–1999) and Time Team Digs (2002), whilst several spin-off books have been published. The programme features special episodes, often documentaries on history or archaeology and live episodes. The programme has been exported to 35 other countries.[13]Template:Efn Time Team America, a US version of the programme, was broadcast on PBS in 2009.Template:Efn

On 13 September 2007, during the filming of a jousting reenactment for a special episode of Time Team, a splinter from a balsa wood lance went through the eye-slit in the helmet of one of the participants and entered his eye socket. 54 year-old Paul Anthony Allen, a member of a re-enactment society, died a week later in hospital.[14] Channel 4 stated that the programme would be shown, but without the re-enactment sequence. The episode, dedicated to Allen, was transmitted on 25 February 2008.

Cancellation

In 2012, Aston announced he was leaving the show after criticising format changes that focused less on archaeological activities.[1] Channel 4 subsequently announced that the final Time Team series would be broadcast in 2013.[1] Viewing figures had been in decline from 2.5 million in 2008 to 1.5 million in November 2011.[1] The regular Time Team programme ended on 24 March 2013. Aston died unexpectedly on 24 June 2013.[15]

In October 2013, Robinson said in an interview with Radio Times that he believed Time Team still had life in it and suggested that after a three- or four-year absence it could make a return. He also expressed support for a fan-organised Facebook campaign to bring the Time Team crew together again to carry out a dig in memory of Aston.[16] The final Time Team special aired on 7 September 2014.

Revival

In December 2020, producer Tim Taylor announced that Time Team would begin airing episodes on a YouTube channel called "Time Team Classics".[17] Taylor also announced the launch of the Time Team Patreon page, allowing fans to financially support efforts to revive the series.[17] On 29 January 2021, the project exceeded its goal of 3,000 patrons.[18]

On 17 May 2021, Taylor made an announcement on the return of the series, with episodes planned to air for free on the YouTube channel.[2] Confirmed team members included Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Helen Geake, Stewart Ainsworth, Raysan Al-Kubaisi, Neil Emmanuel, Naomi Sewpaul, Matt Williams, Henry Chapman, Dani Wootton, Brigid Gallagher, Neil Holbrook, Suzannah Lipscomb, Jimmy Adcock, Natalie Haynes, Derek Pitman, Lawrence Shaw, Hilde van der Heul, Pete Spencer, and several returning production team members.[2]

In September 2021, it was announced that Gus Casely-Hayford and Natalie Haynes would present the revived series.[19]

Series 21 featured two three-part episodes, each covering a new dig conducted in 2021.[20] The first of these episodes, which premiered between 18 and 20 March 2022, covered the excavation of an Iron Age settlement on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.[21][22][23] The second episode premiered between 8 and 10 April 2022 and featured the excavation of a Roman villa in the grounds of Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire, discovered by metal detectorist and amateur archaeologist Keith Westcott in 2016.[24][25][26][27]

Time Team returned to Broughton Castle to answer questions related to a mysterious stone sarcophagus. The first of this two-part episode premiered on 22 December 2022.[28]

Further episodes were released in 2023 and 2024:

On 8 March 2024, the Time Team YouTube channel announced plans to dig Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, in June 2024.[34] A 3 part feature-length documentary of the dig presented by Tony Robinson was released in 2025.[35]

Music

The series' original theme music was composed by Paul Greedus.[36]

The majority of the incidental tracks and main themes for the show, and for many of the specials (Dinosaur Hunting in Montana, D-Day, The Big Dig etc.) were composed by Steve Day.[37]Template:Better source needed

Format

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". At the start of the programme, Tony Robinson explains, in an opening "piece to camera", the reasons for the team's visit to the site. During the dig, he enthusiastically encourages the archaeologists to explain their decisions, discoveries and conclusions, while trying to ensure that everything is comprehensible to the archaeologically uninitiated. The site is frequently suggested by a member of the viewing public. Time Team uncover as much as they can of the archaeology and history of the site in three days.

Excavations are not just carried out to entertain viewers. Robinson claims that the archaeologists involved with Time Team have published more scientific papers on excavations carried out in the programme than all British university archaeology departments over the same period, and that by 2013, the programme had become the biggest funder of field archaeology in the country.[38][39]

Other formats

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".Time Team's Big Dig was an expansion on the live format. A weekend of live broadcasts in June 2003 was preceded by a week of daily short programmes. It involved about a thousand members of the public in excavating test pits each one metre square by fifty centimetres deep. Most of these pits were in private gardens and the project stirred up controversies about approaches to public archaeology.

Time Team's Big Roman Dig (2005) saw this format altered, in an attempt to avoid previous controversies, through the coverage of nine archaeological sites around the UK which were already under investigation by professional archaeologists. Time Team covered the action through live link-ups based at a Roman Villa at Dinnington in Somerset – itself a Time Team excavation from 2003. Over 60 other professionally supervised excavations were supported by Time Team and carried out around the country in association with the programme. A further hundred activities relating to Roman history were carried out by schools and other institutions around the UK.

Time Team Specials are documentary programmes about topics in history and archaeology made by the same production company. They are generally presented by Robinson and often feature one or more of the familiar faces from the regular programme of Time Team. In some cases the programme makers have followed the process of discovery at a large commercial or research excavation by another body, such as that to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the ending of the First World War at the Vampire dugout in Belgium. Time Team usually does not carry out excavations for these programmes, but may contribute a reconstruction.

Time Team History of Britain saw Robinson and the team document everything they have learned up to now and show a history of Britain. Behind the Scenes of Time Team showed meetings of the archaeologists, and material not transmitted during the episode of the dig. 10 Years of Time Team presented a round-up of what has happened in Time Team over the past 10 years and what they expect to happen in the future.

The Time Team website (editor Steve Platt) won a BAFTA for interactive entertainment (factual) in 2002.[40]

Time Team Podcast

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". In 2024, Time Team's Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams began the podcast. This weekly podcast delves into the world of archaeology, offering exclusive access to digs and interviews with experts to uncover the stories of the past.[41] The podcast is an accompanying format to the YouTube version of Time Team.[42]

Series overview

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Series One

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Series Two

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Influence

Time Team has been credited with promoting archaeology in the UK. In a 2008 report produced by English Heritage, a working group of Palaeolithic specialists recognised the importance of the show in "promoting public awareness" of Palaeolithic Britain, something which they argued was to be encouraged.[43]

DVD releases

Complete series have been released in Australia starting with Series 15 in 2010.[44] Since then, Series 12 (2014),[45] Series 14 (2012),[46] Series 16 (2010),[47] Series 17 (2011),[48] Series 18 (2012),[49] Series 19 (2012)[50] and Series 20 (2013)[51] have all been released in Australia. 'Best Of' DVDs were released in the UK over the years; however, a complete series had never been released until Series 18 was released by Acorn Media UK on 6 February 2012. On 15 May 2012, Acorn Media released a collection of Roman-themed episodes on Region One DVD.

Footnotes

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References

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  27. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  31. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  43. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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Bibliography

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