| The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend | |
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 The title screen for The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend | |
| Genre | documentary |
| Created by | Darlow Smithson Productions, Ltd. |
| Directed by | Mike Slee |
| Presented by | Richard Hammond |
| Theme music composer | Richard Attree |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Richard Battin |
| Producer | Mike Slee |
| Production locations | UK, Spain |
| Editor | Ross Bradley |
| Camera setup | Lee Butterby Peter Allibone Chris Bryant Mike Craven Todd Dave Baillie (aerial photography) |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 1 November 2005 |
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The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend was a British television show, hosted by Richard Hammond that recreated elements of the Gunpowder Plot in which Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the House of Lords.
First aired on ITV1 on 1 November 2005, this £1 million[1] programme centres on a reconstruction of the Houses of Parliament as they were in 1605 (the current ones had not yet been built at the time of the Gunpowder Plot), constructed using period equivalent methods wherever possible. This was stocked with mannequins to represent notable commoners, members and the king before the bomb was detonated. The programme was made to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the plot.