7.4 / 10(18 votes)IMDbPGFirst Aired: 199425 Seasons

Time Team

Topics:#investigation #educational #british history #archaeological dig #archeology

Series Overview

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.

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Episodes & Seasons

25 Seasons • 284 Episodes

50 min per episode

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1994 – Present

Premiered: Sun, Jan 16, 1994

Created By

Tim Taylor

Upcoming Broadcast Premiere

Season 21, Episode 27: “The Sutton Hoo Dig Series 1”

Airs in 74 days

Scheduled: Thu, Dec 31, 2026171 minutes

Hosted by Tony Robinson, Time Team’s historic dig in an Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo gets underway. It’s one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, famous for the Great Anglo Saxon Ship Burial. The team undertake a month-long dig in Garden Field to try to find the origins of this incredible site. If they can understand what’s happening in this field, they might be able to understand the entire site including the Royal Burial Ground. They join forces with Prof. Martin Carver and a team of archaeologists who dug the Royal Burial Ground in the 1980s.