As somebody born in the early 90s in Missouri this show is a spectacular. The closest thing I can think of growing up was Bill Nye the Science Guy and Time Team is just on another level. I looked it up and it was on for like 20 years and I just don’t know how it took me this long to ever even hear of it. They have full episodes on their official youtube page and it looks like all of them.
I guess I just wanted to give it a shout out as an excellent example of educational television.
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Time Team is great
You should also try “Jim’ll Fix it”. It’s another British classic.
Yeah it’s a great show. I must say. Anyone who moans about the quality of BBC should watch PBS. As much as it’s useful knowledge. It’s been going for decades and looks like it was filmed in your friendly, history obsessed neighbours garage
We watched it family telly, lol both our kids did Archeology at University, the second one started at A level, continued at Edinburgh, with his partner from Y12, also doing The same courses. They are still together!! doing archeology.
I blame timeteam.
I remember a Time Team where they went to America to work with some of your archaeologists and got increasingly annoyed at how slow they were uncovering layers. The Americans were getting annoyed at how quickly the Brits were chewing through the top layers who were trying to use a mechanical digger to scrape off the top layers.
Turns out that the Americas have much shorter occupation with much less construction, so digging there means you need to be careful so you don’t miss the odd arrow head or fire pit. Whereas in Britain you’re digging around the Roman villa to get to the bronze age settlement underneath, ignoring mosaic floors, viking hordes and mass burial sites.
I like that your post is very meta —
You saw a clip in a corner of the internet. You dug into it & found more and more! You were then able to extrapolate that years ago, there would’ve been a whole TV series in these parts.
Time Team i recommend to give it a go, you may love it like many others.
Just hearing the name transports me to Sunday evenings as a kid where there was nothing else in the TV. School tomorrow so sorting out my uniform with time team on in the background, Tony Robinsons voice boring me to death.
A series of small walls
Big time team fan.
BBC do a regular (yearly) mini series called Digging for Britain with Alice Roberts.
Its absolutely fantastic.
No sensationalist bullshit just pure enthusiasm.
We didnt think it would interest you as its about history, and you don’t have any
Well, because cheeseburgers aren’t really beneficial to archaeology =p
My memories of Time Team was that boring archeology show that my parents would put on a Sunday afternoon and it’d take wayyyy too long to finish. Sorry but even today I cannot get excited at bits of old rocks found in dirt. If you can tho and can look past the awful presenting too the show probably slaps.
I was really impressed when the atone archaeologist went on to win strictly too…..
We weren’t, when you guys get your hands on our shows you tend to remake and ruin them
My nearest favourite show to Time Team is probably expedition unknown. It’s a bit more American and sensationalised and probably not as factual as Time Team but I love the host and he is a proper archaeologist, his episodes where he’s exploring Egypt or some of the England based ones are brilliant, I just wish he’d spend longer at the sites than he does but I get he has to make a 42 minute tv show and 15 sides to go to
It was there all along, you just needed to dig a little (sorry).
Tried to block out the memories of watching it of a sunday evening whilst my mum nit combed my hair…
time team was okay, but scrapheap challenge was next level
Wait until you watch Walking the Thames with Tony Robinson, brilliant viewing.
Are you even *doing* archaeology if you don’t have Sir Tony Robinson saying “Geo-phis” 30 times an hour.
Never forget Harry Hill’s [‘This Week’s Time Team In A Nutshell’](https://youtu.be/mm9M_g9C5UM)
I was going to mention it when you all stopped using ya’ll
If you like that, have yoy tried watching the Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm series?
Not like a time team dig show but still bloody good!
If the Americans get hold of it there will be lots of whooping, fist bumps etc… just watch the difference between UK Masterchef and USA Masterchef
What annoys me even more than the use of the word y’all is the misplaced apostrophe
You’ll love ‘Digging up Britain’ too then. basically a more up to date version with a few different dig sites per episode
They did a US episode one time where they went to an American dig and spent the whole time moaning at how slow the American archaeologists were because they were pouring over every tiny find they would have been discarded in the UK as to new or uninteresting. I don’t think they were allowed to leave the uk again after that.
I’ve been watching time team since the beginning and continue to watch the episodes on YouTube, I even written Phil Harding and enquired about a small obsidian cutting /scraper tool I found in Guatemala. I wish I’d given myself more of an opportunity to study archaeology when I was younger.
In grad school I shated an apartment with an archaeologist and she would go on rants about how unprofessional / fake that show was. No disrespect to Baldrick.