Time Team

Time Team
Created byTim Taylor
Presented by
Starring
Theme music composerPaul Greedus
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series22
No. of episodes286[a]
Production
Executive producerTim Taylor
Running time47 minutes[b]
Production companyVideoText Communications Ltd
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release16 January 1994 (1994-01-16) –
7 September 2014 (2014-09-07)
NetworkYouTube
Release2 April 2011 (2011-04-02)[1] –
present
Related
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From left to right: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, and Guy de la Bédoyère in 2007
Aston with producer Tim Taylor in 2005
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.[2] 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.[3] The first episodes of the revival began appearing on YouTube in 2022.


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  1. ^ "TimeTeamOfficial". youtube.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  2. ^ Conlan, Tara (20 October 2012). "Channel 4 consigns Time Team to TV history". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TT-YouYube-2021-05-17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).