40 Minutes

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40 Minutes

Documentary

40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.

Oct 1, 198114 seasons322 episodesEndedEN

Seasons

Season 1

29 episodes

Premiered Oct 1, 1981

Season 2

25 episodes

Premiered Oct 7, 1982

Season 3

26 episodes

Premiered Oct 30, 1983

Season 4

25 episodes

Premiered Nov 1, 1984

Season 5

26 episodes

Premiered Oct 10, 1985

Season 6

27 episodes

Premiered Oct 9, 1986

Season 7

27 episodes

Premiered Nov 5, 1987

Season 8

27 episodes

Premiered Oct 20, 1988

Season 9

26 episodes

Premiered Oct 19, 1989

Season 10

24 episodes

Premiered Oct 25, 1990

Season 11

24 episodes

Premiered Oct 17, 1991

Season 12

15 episodes

Premiered Feb 16, 1993

Season 13

21 episodes

Premiered Nov 16, 1993

Season 14

1 episodes

Episodes

1–6 of 29

Rough Justice

Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil.

Sister Genevieve

Portrait of a Comprehensive School in the heart of the Falls Road, Belfast.

Hijack

Story of a Hijack on Independence Day 1977 in New York.

Give Us the Vote

Test case for inmates of mental hospital to get the vote.

Lol: A Bona Queen of Fabularity

Life style of Quentin Crisp-esque 'Queen'.

Marathon Man

Attempt to beat record run from John o' Groats to Land's End.

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Networks

BBC Two

GB

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