Timeshift
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First Air DateOct 10, 2002
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Rotten tomato70%
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Original titleTimeshift
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ReleaseOct 10, 2002
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Overview
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
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Season 1 ( 2002-10-10)

The Grunwick Strike

The Cannabis Years

The Writer's Trade

The Sailing Sixties

Attenborough: The Controller Years

he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man

A Shadow Over Europe

Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
Notting Hill Riots
What Have the Germans Done for Us?
Greenham Common Changed My Life

Car Crazy
The Magic Roundabout Story
Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream

Gurus
A Brief Interlude
Season 2 ( 2003-05-05)

The Great British Seaside Holiday
Children's News
Watching You

TV and Charity

Tyneside

Political Thrillers: Plays of State

High Rise Dreams

Vicars: Dearly Beloved?

Footballers’ Lives
Six Days to Saturday
Season 3 ( 2003-10-01)
Cold War Kids
The Kneale Tapes
James Cameron: A Pain in the Neck

Apocalypse Now… and Then

The Lie of the Land
Child Prodigies
Raj to Rhondda: How Indian Doctors saved the NHS
The Jet Set
Missing Believed Wiped
Prog Rock

Hard Drive Heaven: The History of the Home Computer

Whistleblowers
Charles Wheeler: Edge of Frame
Season 4 ( 2004-06-19)

Art School

Fantasy Sixties
Jack Rosenthal: The Voice of Television Drama
The Carnival Years

The History of Pubs

Live on the Night: The Story of Live TV Drama

New Age Travellers

Drugs in Sport

Hey Mr. DJ: The Rise and Rise of the Disc Jockey

British Space Race

Pile It High, Sell It Cheap

Red Robbo

Gambling Britain

The Story of Circus

Pop Svengalis

Conchies: Questions of Conscience

Kenneth Tynan

Jewish Entertainers

Alan Plater: Hearing the Music

Speak No Evil: The Story of the Broadcast Ban

Russel T. Davis: Unscripted
Season 5 ( 2005-05-19)

MPs on the Box

Je T'Aime... How We Learned to Love Europe
England Away
Court on Camera

Apes in Hollywood
Star Men
Black and White Minstrels Revisited
Too Much, Too Young
The Jitterbug Years
Play It Again
The Battle for the Ashes

The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith

The Third Progamme: High Culture for All in Postwar Britain
Lost Road: Overland To Singapore
A Study in Sherlock

Baker Street Babylon: The Bizarre Afterlife of Sherlock Holmes

Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now
The British Way of Death
Left of Frame: The Rise and Fall of Radical TV Drama
Rude Britannia
The Sun and the Moon
Pay Attention Britain! Public Information Films
Season 6 ( 2006-04-01)
Switch off Something - Britain and the Three Day Week
Creating 'Life on Mars'
The Da Vinci Code - The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Carry On Campus
Machine Men
Oz and Them
Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction

Planet Ping Pong
Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide
Transylvania Babylon
The New Middle Classes
Rover: The Long Goodbye
First Rites: From the Cradle to the Prom
Wedding Rites: In Sickness and in Health
Goodbye Children Everywhere
Season 7 ( 2007-04-18)
The Edwardian Larder

How To Be a Good Prime Minister
Gagging For It: TV's Hunger for Radio Comedy
Whatever Happened to Radio 2?
Emmylou Harris's Ten Commandments of Country
Emmylou Harris at the BBC
Archaeology - Digging the Past

Sir Mortimer Wheeler - A Life in Ruins
Watching the Russians
Never Had It So Good?

A Game of Two Eras: 1957 v 2007
Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner
The Rise and Fall of the Ad Man
Season 8 ( 2008-09-14)
How to Be a Good President
Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film
Last Days of Steam

How to Write a Mills and Boon
How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword
The Comic Songbook
Fashion versus the BBC
The North-South Divide
Season 9 ( 2009-04-03)
Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
The Golden Age of Liners
The Men Who Built the Liners
The Last Days of the Liners
How to Win at Chess
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

Clement Freud: In His Own Words
Bread: A Loaf Affair
Disappearing Dad
Season 10 ( 2010-09-08)
The North on a Plate
1960: The Year of the North
When Britain Went Wild
Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction
The Golden Age of Coach Travel
The Modern Age of the Coach
Crime and Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment
Crime and Punishment - The Story of Capital Punishment
Season 11 ( 2011-04-03)
Retrial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice
Hotel Deluxe
All the Fun of the Fair
When the Circus Comes to Town

The Picture Postcard World of Nigel Walmsley
Dear Censor - The secret archive of the British Board of Film Classification

Antarctica - Of Ice and Men

The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire

Epic: A Cast of Thousands!

The Smoking Years
The Rules of Drinking
Season 12 ( 2012-09-24)
Health before the NHS: The Road to Recovery
Health before the NHS: A Medical Revolution
Klezmer
Magnificent Machines: The Golden Age of the British Sports Car
The British Army of the Rhine
When Wrestling was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies
The Joy of (Train) Sets
Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain
How To Be A Lady: An Elegant History
Season 13 ( 2013-10-28)
Full Throttle: The Glory Days of British Motorbikes
When Coal Was King

Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairstyles That Shaped Britain
A Day at the Zoo
The Ladybird Books Story: The Bugs that Got Britain Reading
Hurricanes and Heatwaves: The Highs and Lows of British Weather
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Season 14 ( 2014-05-26)
Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem
Killer Storms and Cruel Winters - The History of Extreme Weather
Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain
Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest
The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
Spicing Up Britain: How Eating Out Went Exotic
Season 15 ( 2015-09-02)
The Trains That Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys
A Very British Map: The Ordnance Survey Story
The Engine That Powers the World
The People's Liners: Britain's Lost Pleasure Fleets
Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC

How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank
Season 16 ( 2016-10-19)

Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built

Sailors, Ships and Stevedores: The Story of British Docks

Penny Blacks & Twopenny Blues: How Britain Got Stuck on Stamps

Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop

Flights of Fancy: Pigeons and the British
Season 17 ( 2017-04-03)

Roof Racks and Hatchbacks: The Family Car

Blazes and Brigades: The Story of the Fire Service

Dial B for Britain: The Story of the Landline
