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Time Team programmes, Xmas 2002
20 December, 8pm
The Bone Cave (repeat)
27 December, 5.55pm
Time Team: Ten years of Time Team
First screened in 1994, next year sees the 10th year of the TV phenomenon that is Time Team. Who would have believed back then that a programme featuring people standing in ditches in the rain would become required viewing for millions of armchair archaeologists?
Time Team's success has seen the programme win shelfloads of awards, but more importantly the programme has been responsible for an astonishing 70% of all research digs in England in the last five years. Ranging from second world war bombers, through Roman and Bronze Age finds, right back to prehistoric settlements; the series has brought archaeology to more people than ever before.
Tony Robinson, Mick, Phil and Carenza take a look back at how it all happened, recall some of the best moments of the last ten years, and muse on how a bunch of muddy misfits became the TV surprise of the decade.
Detailed information about most of the programmes that have been screened over the past decade is available in the Past programmes section of the Time Team website.
27 December, 6.55pm
Time Team Digs: The Norman Conquest
Starting just after the most famous date in British history, 1066, Tony Robinson looks back at what the Time Team have learned about the conquest of Britain by William. No less than three castles – Alderton in Northamptonshire, Bridgenorth in Shropshire and Beaudesert in Warwickshire have come under the Team's trowels and their original grandeur recreated. But the Normans didn't just build castles. A lost leper hospital tells its ghastly story; a grammar school in Norfolk learns a surprising truth about its past and the secret world of religious devotion is revealed on the site of a major abbey.
27 December, 8pm
Fact or Fiction: King Harold
Stay tuned for Fact or Fiction: King Harold – Tony's investigation of
the last Saxon king. Travelling from the south coast to Yorkshire and
northern France, he finds out why Harold should be considered one of
England's greatest heroes.
29 December, 4.55pm
Dinosaurs (repeat)
Tony Robinson and Phil Harding hit the highways of America on a road trip to some of the dinosaur capitals of the world. After joining a museum dig to excavate the bones of the T-Rex's ancestor, they uncover the big bucks tourist industry that dinosaur hunting has spawned in the US, and Tony gets his first ever chance to do some digging as a paying punter on a commercial dig. Their journey culminates in a trip to the Badlands, where they accompany world famous dinosaur hunter Jack Horner in digging up some of the best preserved remains of a T-Rex ever discovered.
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