Time Team Extra is a British

United Kingdom

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 television series

Television program

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 that aired on Channel 4

Channel 4

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 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush

Robin Bush (historian)

Robin James Edwin Bush was the resident historian for the first nine series of Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team, appearing in 39 episodes between 1994 to 2003. He also presented eight episodes of Time Team Extra in 1998.-Early life:Bush was born in Hayes, Middlesex...

, it is a companion programme to 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.

Time Team Extra is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of Time Teams fifth series. The episodes look more into the history of the site being excavated.

Production

The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland

Ireland

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, including Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace

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, Jorvik Viking Centre

Jorvik Viking Centre

The JORVIK Viking Centre is a museum and visitor attraction in York, England. It was created by the York Archaeological Trust.- Background :Cravens, a firm of confectioners founded in 1803, relocated from their factory in Coppergate, a street in central York, in 1966...

, Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

 and Mellifont Abbey

Mellifont Abbey

Mellifont Abbey , located in County Louth, was the first Cistercian abbey to be built in Ireland.-Origins:Founded in 1142 on the orders of Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, Mellifont Abbey sits on the banks of the River Mattock, some ten km north-west of Drogheda.By 1170, Mellifont had one...

. The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor

Hughenden Manor

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 in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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, 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

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

. In each episode, historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 Robin Bush and a guest look back at the week before's Time Team episode. Time Teams fifth series aired from 4 January to 1 March 1998.

#	Title	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:... The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL. Silverdale Interactive © 2024. All Rights Reserved.   x OK