''Time Team Extra'' is a British
television series
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that aired on
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
in 1998. Presented by
Robin Bush
Robin James Edwin Bush (12 March 1943 – 22 June 2010) was the resident historian for the first nine series of Channel 4's archaeology series '' Time Team'', appearing in 39 episodes between 1994 and 2003. He also presented eight episodes of ...
, it was a companion programme to the
archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts ...
series ''
Time Team
''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned online in 2022 for two episodes released on YouTube. Created by television pro ...
'', 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 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
Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief ...
,
Jorvik Viking Centre
The Jorvik Viking Centre is a museum and visitor attraction in York, England, containing lifelike mannequins and life-size dioramas depicting Viking life in the city. Visitors are taken through the dioramas in small carriages equipped with spea ...
,
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting ...
and
Mellifont Abbey
Mellifont Abbey ( ga, An Mhainistir Mhór, literally 'the Big Monastery'), was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland. In 1152, it hosted the Synod of K ...
.
The interviews with the guest were filmed at
Hughenden Manor
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. It is now owned by the National Trust and op ...
in
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 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
.
In each episode,
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 st ...
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.
See also
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List of Time Team episodes
The following is a list of episodes of '' Time Team'', a British television programme about archaeology, that has aired on Channel 4 since 16 January 1994.
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Time Team Specials
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Time Team Others
References
External links
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1998 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
Channel 4 original programming
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