Time Team
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| Presented by | Tony Robinson |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 20 |
| No. of episodes | 280including specials (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Tim Taylor |
| Running time | 47 minutes (excluding adverts) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Picture format | 4:3 (1994–1999) 16:9 (2000–2014) |
| Original release | 16 January 1994 – 7 September 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Time Signs |
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| Time Team | |
Time Team is a British television series that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. The specialists changed throughout the series, although it consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War.
In October 2012, Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013. Series 20 was screened from January–March 2013 and nine specials were screened between May 2013 and September 2014.
A team of archaeologists, usually led by Mick Aston or Francis Pryor (the latter usually heading Bronze Age and Iron Age digs), including field archaeologist Phil Harding, congregate at a site, usually in Britain. The site is frequently suggested by a member of the viewing public who knows of an unsolved archaeological mystery or who wants a vanity dig and owns property that has not been excavated and is potentially interesting. Time Team uncover as much as they can of the archaeology and history of the site in three days.
At the start of the programme, Tony Robinson explains, in an opening "piece to camera", the reasons for the team's visit to the site and during the dig he enthusiastically encourages the archaeologists to explain their decisions, discoveries and conclusions. He tries to ensure that everything is comprehensible to the archaeologically uninitiated. Excavations are not just carried out to entertain viewers. Tony Robinson claims that the archaeologists involved with Time Team have published more scientific papers on excavations carried out in the series than all British university archaeology departments over the same period and that by 2013, the programme had become the biggest funder of field archaeology in the country.
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