7 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 8 First episode date 1998 Network Channel 4 Number of episodes 8 | 7/10 IMDb No. of series 1 Original network Channel 4 Final episode date 8 March 1998 Presented by Robin Bush Cast Robin Bush | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Running time 30 minutes
(including adverts) Original release 11 January – 8 March 1998 Similar Time Team, Time Team America, History Hunters, A History of Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time Team Extra was a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994.
Contents
Time Team Extra is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of Time Team's fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated.
Production
The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland, including Hampton Court Palace, Jorvik Viking Centre, Stonehenge and Mellifont Abbey. The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, in the library of Benjamin Disraeli.
Episodes
Each episode of Time Team Extra is thirty minutes long and originally aired from 11 January to 8 March 1998 on Channel 4. In each episode, historian Robin Bush and a guest look back at the week before's Time Team episode. Time Team's fifth series aired from 4 January to 1 March 1998.