7.8 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 8 First episode date 1 November 2002 Network Channel 4 Number of episodes 8 | 7.7/10 IMDb No. of series 1 Executive producer(s) Philip Clarke Final episode date 27 December 2002 Presented by Tony Robinson Cast Tony Robinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) Tim Taylor
Jeremy Cross
Laurence Vulliamy Running time 60 minutes
(including adverts) Similar Time Team, History Hunters, Time Team America, A History of Britain, The Worst Jobs in History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time Team Digs is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 2002. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as Time Team Digs: A History of Britain.
Contents
Time Team Digs is an eight-part series including highlights from previous Time Team digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day.
Production and Cast
The series producer of Time Team Digs was Tim Taylor, the creator and producer of Time Team and its predecessor Time Signs. The executive producer was Philip Clarke and the producers were Jeremy Cross and Laurence Vulliamy. Tony Robinson, the presenter, was also the associate producer. Regular contributors on Time Team included: archaeologists Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis, Neil Holbrook; Robin Bush (historian); Victor Ambrus (illustrator); Stewart Ainsworth (landscape investigator); John Gater, Chris Gaffney (geophysicists); Henry Chapman (surveyor).
Episodes
Time Team Digs aired for eight sixty-minute episodes, from 1 November to 27 December 2002. Each episode aired on a Friday.
DVD releases
Time Team Digs was released on DVD in the UK (Region 2) on 7 March 2005. The 3-disc DVD set also contains a 30-minute documentary Behind the Scenes with Time Team and the 1997 and 1999 Time Team Christmas specials.