Time Team

Time Team
Original Time Team Logo
Also known asThe Time Team
GenreDocumentary
Created byTim Taylor
Presented by
Starring
Theme music composerPaul Greedus
ComposerSteve Day
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series23
No. of episodes292 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Tim Taylor
  • Philip Clarke
  • Emily Boulting
  • Jim Mason
  • David Brady
  • Richard Belfield
  • Mike Welsh
  • Alison Turner
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeapprox. 45 minutes
Production companies
  • VideoText Communications Ltd (Channel 4)
  • Time Team Digital Ltd (YouTube)
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release16 January 1994 (1994-01-16) –
7 September 2014 (2014-09-07)
NetworkYouTube
Release2 April 2011 (2011-04-02) –
present
Related
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Time Team
YouTube information
Channels
Subscribers334 thousand
Time Team Podcast
GenrePopular science, archaeology
LanguageEnglish
Cast and voices
Hosted by
Production
ProductionTime Team Digital
Lengthapprox. 40 minutes
Publication
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes44 (list of episodes)
Original release3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) –
present
UpdatesWeekly (Tuesday)

Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned in 2022 on online platforms YouTube and Patreon. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features 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 programme's run, 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. In May 2021, Taylor announced the return of the series, with free episodes to be shown on YouTube. The first episodes of the revival began appearing on YouTube in 2022.