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Timewatch — Storyline

Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.

Cast & Crew

Timewatch — Series Details

Timewatch — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Episode 1 (1982-09-29) — WINDSORS' WAR: The continuing controversy surrounding the war-time role of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Victims of a bad press, they remained tactfully silent, but now answer b
• E2: Episode 2 (1982-10-27) — THE CHINA OF THE MANCHU EMPERORS and the signing of the treaties which gave Britain Hong Kong. Why do the Chinese regard these treaties as unequal?

  SCOTLAND AND THE GREAT WITCH HU

• E3: Episode 3 (1982-11-24) — 'IF THE SPANISH ARMADA HAD LANDED …' What would have happened if on Monday 7 August 1558 a Spanish Army had marched on London from the invasion beaches of Margate? Timewatch re-e
• E4: Episode 4 (1982-12-22) — Film 1: Sir Thomas More, the Tudor statesman who lost his head on the scaffold in 1535, was made a saint in 1937; now the heroic reputation of the 'man for all seasons' is under at

Season 2

• E1: Episode 1 (1983-01-26) — HOW DO YOU DEMOCRATISE A NAZI? On the 50th anniversary of Hitler's elevation to the chancellorship of the Third Reich Simon Winchester reports from Washington and Nuremberg on how
• E2: Episode 2 (1983-02-23) — In a new edition of THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, editor Robert Latham has uncovered previously unknown details of Pepys's life.

  THE WEEDERS: Are civil servants destroying vital hist

• E3: Episode 3 (1983-03-30) — THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN THE 1930s AND TODAY: Fifty years ago, British politics was dominated by campaigns for peace. What are the parallels with the 1980s?

  THE LAST MUGGLETONIAN: In

• E4: Episode 4 (1983-04-27) — THE LOVED AND HATED KING: Richard III – hunchback murderer of the princes in the Tower, or victim of Tudor propaganda? On the 500th anniversary of his coronation, historians go int
• E5: Episode 5 (1983-06-01) — FRANCE AND THE NAZIS: Following the arrest of Klaus Barbie, butcher of Lyon, memories of Nazi collaboration have again returned to haunt a generation of Frenchmen. Dr Christopher A
• E6: Episode 6 (1983-06-29) — BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE: During the Falklands war, the Argentinians made great capital of the last time they'd fought the British – and won, in 1806. SIMON Winchester reports.

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• E7: Episode 7 (1983-07-27) — SHADOW OF THE GALLOWS: After Parliament's vote on hanging, an investigation into the history of Tyburn and the mass public executions in the 18th century. Did hanging deter?

  SPYIN

• E8: Special: Albert, Prince Consort (1983-09-07) — A special programme devoted to the life and historical reputation of Prince Albert, husband to Queen Victoria. From Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, designed by Albert for his f
• E9: Episode 9 (1983-10-12) — THE BATTLE FOR MARTIN LUTHER: Martin Luther, the German priest who split the Catholic church and began the Reformation, was born 500 years ago. Today, East and West Germany both st
• E10: Episode 10 (1983-11-01) — BEFORE THE NATIONAL HEALTH: A remarkable newly discovered archive of silent film reveals hospital life in the 1920s and 30s. How did people afford medical care in the days before t

Season 3

• E1: The Klagenfurt Affair / The Black Death (1984-01-03) — In May 1945, British soldiers near the Austrian border town of Klagenfurt handed over 26,000 Yugoslav anti-Communist refugees to Tito's Communist partisans, who disarmed then machi
• E2: Episode 2 (1984-01-11) — PREVENTING THE THIRD WORLD WAR: 1984 opens amid the greatest fears of international tension and nuclear holocaust since the Cold War. Lord Bullock, biographer of British Foreign Se
• E3: Episode 3 (1984-01-31) — THE LAST FÜHRER: Among the Nazi war leaders tried at Nuremberg, Hitler's successor Admiral Doenitz received the lightest sentence of all. Now new research suggests Doenitz was far
• E4: Episode 4 (1984-03-06) — THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE: A meeting with the man who met the men who charged with the Light Brigade. Now aged 97, he has devoted his life to tracing all those who took part
• E5: Episode 5 (1984-04-03) — SEX AND THE VICTORIANS: Did Victorian wives really 'lie back and think of England'? New research suggests they enjoyed a far more liberated sex life than conventional image allows.
• E6: Episode 6 (1984-05-01) — THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION: In 1924, 28 million people visited the last of the great imperial exhibitions at Wembley – now it is almost forgotten.

  GOING MAD IN THE 19TH CENTURY

• E7: The Conquest and the Conqueror (1984-05-08) — THE CASE FOR KING WILLIAM: Why did William of Normandy believe the Crown of England was his right? What do we know of the barons who stamped their authority on their newly-conquere
• E8: Episode 8 (1984-06-06) — Two names that shaped Britain in two World Wars.

  SECRETS OF THE KAISER: The private papers of Germany's last Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, uncover his secret life. In public the fig

• E9: Episode 9 (1984-07-10) — SIR WALTER RALEIGH: In North Carolina they are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first settlement in North America. Colonisation of the New World was Walter Raleigh's most a
• E10: Episode 10 (1984-08-07) — ELECTION 1784: It was the first modern General Election. Two parties, two national leaders – the King versus Parliament. With a computer analysis of the crucial results, Timewatch
• E11: Episode 11 (1984-09-05) — THE FIRST FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS: How new is soccer violence? Christopher Andrew uncovers new evidence that pitch invasions, mob riots and attacks on rival supporters were at their hei
• E12: Episode 12 (1984-10-03) — ABRAHAM LINCOLN: How true are historical novels? Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln' draws the political battlefield in Washington during the American Civil War. What does it add to our portrai
• E13: Episode 13 (1984-11-07) — THE LAST UPRISING: In 1839, 7,000 Welsh miners and ironworkers marched on Newport to demand their democratic rights. The result was the last mass treason trial in British history.
• E14: Episode 14 (1984-12-05) — NELSON: Heroes inevitably suffer at the hands of those who worship them, few more so than one of the most popular of all, Nelson. Since his death in 1805, how have subsequent gener

Season 4

• E1: Episode 1 (1985-01-09) — REAGAN'S COWBOYS: Why have successive presidents celebrated the cowboy as all-American hero?

  THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS DEAD: But did it ever flourish? How true is the picture painted

• E2: Episode 2 (1985-01-30) — TAFF VALE: In 1900 the railway workers of Taff Vale embarked on a strike which has political implications to this day. Timewatch examines the first great clash between the Trades U
• E3: Special: The Age of Charles II (1985-02-06) — 'Let not poor Nellie starve.' With those words Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', died 300 years ago. Of all British sovereigns, this womanising, yachting, horse-racing king has a fo
• E4: Episode 4 (1985-03-06) — CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tensions behind the friendship and Britain's collapse as
• E5: Episode 5 (1985-04-03) — THE UNUSED WEAPON: By 1945 the Allies and the Nazis had stockpiled five times more chemical weapons than had been used throughout the First World War. They were never used. Why? Ro
• E6: The Battle for Berlin (1985-05-08) — In April 1945, British and American troops were sweeping across Western Germany. Charles Wheeler was among them. They stopped 50 miles short of the German capital and Berlin became
• E7: Aspects of War (1985-10-10) — This month's programme comes from the centre of Oxford where Peter France introduces three stories which have their roots deep in the confused and bewildering fortunes of the Boer
• E8: Elements of Justice (1985-11-07) — SUMMER OF THE HANGING JUDGE: An examination of the life and times of Judge George Jeffreys 300 years after he presided over the infamous Bloody Assizes which followed the Monmouth
• E9: Magic Circles (1985-12-05) — Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex reveals the feelings of a man caught up in a scient
• E97: Episode 97
• E98: Episode 98
• E99: Episode 99

Season 5

• E1: Matter of Record (1986-01-01) — Three films which reflect the way official records are preserved for future generations.

  Film 1: Christopher Andrew examines the extraordinary story of how the MS Automedon, entru

• E2: Episode 2 (1986-02-06) — Two stories shed new light on the life and times of Henry Tudor, who took the throne of England from Richard III 500 years ago.

  Film 1: The problems facing Margaret Rule and her a

• E3: The Master Builders (1986-03-06) — Three films presented from the British Museum reveal how visionaries and others dealt with the 'outsider' as they set out to perfect a society, a state and a national image at the
• E4: Episode 4 (1986-04-03) — Three stories presented from the Virago bookshop in Covent Garden about the lives of women in worlds dominated by men.

  THE NINE DAY QUEEN: Lady Jane Grey was used by men of power

• E5: Special: All the King's Men (1986-05-01) — In January 1943 lone British agent Henri Dericourt was dropped over occupied France. His mission was to organise the reception and departure of RAF flights crucial to the secret wo
• E6: The Road to War (1986-06-08) — In 1936 'The Road to War' used newsreel to try to alert the American people to the mounting horror of war in China, Ethiopia, Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain. But America did not
• E7: The Price of the Past (1986-10-09) — Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders:

  – A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rork

• E8: A Medieval Affair (1986-11-11) — The Domesday Book was completed 900 years ago, but it says little about the daily worries and concerns of the people whose land and animals are recorded in so much detail. Three fi
• E9: The Human Factor (1986-12-04) — Film 1: How a Bulgarian peasant farmer stumbled across the largest Thracian treasure ever discovered – more than 160 silver bowls and jugs, found while digging an irrigation ditch.
• E97: Episode 97

Season 6

• E1: Codes of Conduct (1987-01-15) — Peter France presents three films which reflect the extent to which codes of 'honour', allegiance' and 'behaviour' have had their effect on British history.

  1: Christopher Andrew

• E2: Faces of Cromwell (1987-02-12) — Views of Oliver Cromwell vary as much today as when Parliament asked him to become King in 1657: a tyrant, a repressed religious bigot who murdered a king; a patriot, civilised wit
• E3: Symptoms of an Age (1987-04-02) — Two stories showing how previous generations have dealt with the problems of pollution and disease:

  DEVONSHIRE COLIC: In Georgian times, a crippling illness struck thousands of ci

• E4: Fateful Century (1987-04-30) — Mary Queen of Scots has come down to us as a tragic heroine – but what kind of respect does she command as a 16th-century ruler? Anne Boleyn is usually seen either as a scheming pr
• E5: Times of Change (1987-06-25) — 1: The last attempt by central government to impose educational benchmarks on the majority of British schools.

  2: Disinherited Londoners recall the community spirit of a Notting H

• E6: Affairs of State (1987-09-16) — Christopher Andrew and Gabriel Ronay investigate two political mysteries.

  THE ZINOVIEV LETTER led to the defeat of the first Labour Government in 1924. Was it genuine – or was it

• E7: Images of a Revolution (1987-10-14) — What really happened in Russia in October 1917? How far can we rely on the vivid films from the period to give us a true picture of the Revolution and, of incidents such as the sto
• E8: The Art of Chivalry (1987-11-11) — Two films examine the reality behind the ideal.

  When MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN died in 1918 he had become a figure of myth; a knight of the air with 80 victories to his credit. But t

• E9: Judgment in Jerusalem (1987-12-09) — Explores the trial of Nazi officer Adolph Eichmann through a controversial book, 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' by Hannah Arendt. Many Jews read her reports from Jerusalem with a sense of
• E97: Episode 97
• E98: Episode 98
• E102: Episode 102

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Timewatch have? 30 season(s) with 343 episodes.

Where can I watch Timewatch? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.