Time Team Digs is a British

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 television series

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 that aired on Channel 4

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 in 2002. Presented by the actor

Actor

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 Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson

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, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology

Archaeology

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 series Time Team

Time Team

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on Channel 4 since 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining...

, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as Time Team Digs: A History of Britain.

Time Team Digs is an eight-part series looking at previous Time Team digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 to the modern day

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.

Production

The series producer of Time Team Digs was Tim Taylor

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, the creator and producer

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 of Time Team and its predecessor Time Signs

Time Signs

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. The executive producer was Philip Clarke and the producers were Jeremy Cross and Laurence Vulliamy. Tony Robinson, the presenter, was also the associate producer.

Episodes

Time Team Digs aired for eight sixty-minute episodes, from 1 November to 27 December 2002. Each episode aired on a Friday.

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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.

See also

• List of Time Team episodes
• Time Team Specials
• Time Team Others
  Time Team (Others)
  This is a list of Time Team other episodes. These are more documentaries and not really a regular type of episode.-Other:Episode # refer to the number in air date order which includes the specials episode which broadcast in between regular episodes-See also:...