Time Team Extra | |
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Presented by | Robin Bush |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes (including adverts) |
Release | |
Original network | Channel 4 |
Original release | 11 January – 8 March 1998 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by |
Time Signs Time Team |
Related shows |
History Hunters Time Team Digs Time Team Live Time Team America |
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.
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.
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.
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.