Timewatch
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
Season 1
4 episodes
Premiered Sep 29, 1982
Season 2
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 26, 1983
Season 3
14 episodes
Premiered Jan 3, 1984
Season 4
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 1985
Season 5
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 1, 1986
Season 6
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 15, 1987
Season 7
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 6, 1988
Season 8
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 11, 1989
Season 9
13 episodes
Premiered Jan 17, 1990
Season 10
21 episodes
Premiered Jan 23, 1991
Season 11
20 episodes
Premiered Jan 15, 1992
Season 12
14 episodes
Premiered Jan 13, 1993
Season 13
16 episodes
Premiered Jan 12, 1994
Season 14
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 11, 1995
Season 15
13 episodes
Premiered Jan 14, 1996
Season 16
15 episodes
Premiered Feb 25, 1997
Season 17
13 episodes
Premiered Apr 7, 1998
Season 18
12 episodes
Premiered Apr 17, 1999
Season 19
2 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2000
Season 20
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 12, 2001
Season 21
13 episodes
Premiered Jan 4, 2002
Season 22
13 episodes
Premiered Jan 10, 2003
Season 23
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2004
Season 24
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 29, 2005
Season 25
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 20, 2006
Season 26
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2007
Season 27
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2008
Season 28
8 episodes
Premiered Feb 21, 2009
Season 29
1 episodes
Premiered Jun 2, 2010
Season 30
4 episodes
Premiered Oct 25, 2011
Episode 1
WINDSORS' WAR: The continuing controversy surrounding the war-time role of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Victims of a bad press, they remained tactfully silent, but now answer back through Maitre Blum, their lawyer, who gives her first television interview. OPERATION HURRICANE: Britain's first atomic test took place 30 years ago. Film of that secret explosion has been specially declassified by the Ministry of Defence for Timewatch. CHATHAM DOCKYARD: Now under threat of Government closure, the story of its contribution to naval history from the Armada to HMS Victory, to the Falklands.
Episode 2
THE CHINA OF THE MANCHU EMPERORS and the signing of the treaties which gave Britain Hong Kong. Why do the Chinese regard these treaties as unequal? SCOTLAND AND THE GREAT WITCH HUNT OF THE 17TH CENTURY: A thousand women were strangled or burnt. Was this persecution a political act by James VI which got out of hand? Why was it directed at women? The recently discovered diary of a Lancashire weaver JOHN O'NEIL who, a century ago, recorded his experiences as an early trades union leader in the recession of the 1860s. New research on the founding father of the Irish Republic, EAMON DE VALERA. Was he as committed to a united Ireland as was always believed, or was he prepared to compromise?
Episode 3
'IF THE SPANISH ARMADA HAD LANDED ...' What would have happened if on Monday 7 August 1558 a Spanish Army had marched on London from the invasion beaches of Margate? Timewatch re-examines the fate of the 16th-century Spanish task force and asks how close did it come to success? WHAT MAKES BEGIN TICK? Vladimir Jabotinsky was the philosopher behind the fighting Jew and is the man whom Menachem Begin considers his mentor. Timewatch examines the vision of Jabotinsky and its influence on Begin both in his early life and in his years as Britain's most wanted terrorist. LLYWELYN AP GRUFFYDD - THE FIRST AND LAST INDEPENDENT PRINCE OF WALES: Simon Winchester tells his story and assesses his important place in Welsh nationalism today.
Episode 4
Film 1: Sir Thomas More, the Tudor statesman who lost his head on the scaffold in 1535, was made a saint in 1937; now the heroic reputation of the 'man for all seasons' is under attack. Film 2: Unemployment in Britain 150 years ago when the workhouse became the symbol of oppression and poverty that lasted over a century. Bernard Clark investigates the Poor Law of 1834, designed to cut spending on the poor and unemployed and which left bitter memories for generations. Film 3: The Russian spy scare of 1927 when the British Cabinet unwittingly betrayed to Moscow the code-breaking secrets of British intelligence.
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