# Time Team Live

Time Team Live was a British television series that aired on Channel 4. The first programme was shown in 1997 and the most recent was in 2006. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson and guest presenters, this is a live version of the archaeology series Time Team, showing more of what happens in real time, than when the cut-down episode airs on Channel 4.

## Background

Time Team Live episodes came from historically important sites. Instead of showing a 'best of' show, the live episodes were broadcast whilst the digs were actually taking place. Later, regular episodes were made from the best of the live episodes. Normally, regular sites were recorded in the same method, however, only a few were selected for live broadcast. The regular episodes were either a special, or a normal series episode.

## Episodes
### Series 1 (1997)

Guest presented by Sandi Toksvig and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall alongside Robinson. Edited into Time Team series 5, episode 4.
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 1–9 | "Time Team Live 1997" | Turkdean, Gloucestershire | Simon Raikes | 51°52′10″N 1°51′23″W﻿ / ﻿51.869531°N 1.856436°W﻿ / 51.869531; -1.856436 | 23-25 August 1997 (1997-08-25) |
| Over the course of the August Bank Holiday weekend, the team went to Turkdean in Gloucestershire to try to discover whether experts are correct in believing the site used to house Roman buildings. ||||||

### Series 2 (1998)

Guest presented by Sandi Toksvig and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall alongside Robinson. Edited into Time Team series 6, episode 11.
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 10 | "Episode One" | Bawsey, Norfolk | Brendan Hughes | 52°44′59″N 0°29′16″E﻿ / ﻿52.7497°N 0.48766°E﻿ / 52.7497; 0.48766 | 29 August 1998 (1998-08-29) |
| Iron Age settlement and Norman church ||||||
| 11 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 August 1998 (1998-08-29) |
| 12 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 August 1998 (1998-08-30) |
| 13 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 August 1998 (1998-08-30) |
| 14 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 August 1998 (1998-08-30) |
| 15 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 31 August 1998 (1998-08-31) |
| 16 | "Episode Seven" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 31 August 1998 (1998-08-31) |

### Series 3 (1999)

Guest presented by Sandi Toksvig and Paul Thompson alongside Robinson. Edited into Time Team series 7, episode 13, "York".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 17 | "Episode One" | York, Yorkshire | Laurence Vulliamy | TBA | 3 September 1999 (1999-09-03) |
| Roman cemetery, Viking buildings and the medieval St Leonard's hospital ||||||
| 18 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 3 September 1999 (1999-09-03) |
| 19 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 4 September 1999 (1999-09-04) |
| 20 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 4 September 1999 (1999-09-04) |
| 21 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 September 1999 (1999-09-05) |
| 22 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 September 1999 (1999-09-05) |

### Series 4 (2000)

Guest presented by Sandi Toksvig and Liza Tarbuck alongside Robinson. Edited into Time Team series 8, episode 12, "Three Tales of Canterbury".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 23 | "Episode One" | Canterbury, Kent | Laurence Vulliamy, Amanda Fidler, Duncan Hess | TBA | 25 August 2000 (2000-08-25) |
| Roman temple, medieval kiln and Franciscan friary ||||||
| 24 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 August 2000 (2000-08-25) |
| 25 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 26 August 2000 (2000-08-26) |
| 26 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 26 August 2000 (2000-08-26) |
| 27 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 27 August 2000 (2000-08-27) |
| 28 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 27 August 2000 (2000-08-27) |

### Series 5 (2001)

Guest presented by Sandi Toksvig alongside Robinson. Alice Roberts appears in an archaeology role, her first appearance on TV, but appears as an "expert", not a presenter. Edited into Time Team series 9, episode 13, "Seven Buckets and a Buckle".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 29 | "Episode One" | Breamore, Hampshire | Mel Morpeth, Michael Douglas, Patrick McGrady, Laurence Vulliamy | 50°57′18″N 1°46′19″W﻿ / ﻿50.954994°N 1.772017°W﻿ / 50.954994; -1.772017 | 28 August 2001 (2001-08-28) |
| 30 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 August 2001 (2001-08-29) |
| 31 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 30 August 2001 (2001-08-30) |
| 32 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 31 August 2001 (2001-08-31) |

### The Big Dig (2003)

Time Team's Big Dig was an expansion on the live format. A weekend of live broadcasts in June 2003 was preceded by a week of daily short programmes. It involved about a thousand members of the public in excavating test pits each one metre square by fifty centimetres deep. Most of these pits were in private gardens and the project stirred up controversies about approaches to public archaeology. Edited into a Time Team special, "Big Dig, The Hole Story".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 33 | "Episode One" | Great Easton, Leicestershire | TBA | TBA | 22 June 2003 (2003-06-22) |
| 34 | "Episode Two" | Wolverhampton Barnet, Greater London Oakamoor, Staffordshire | TBA | TBA | 23 June 2003 (2003-06-23) |
| 35 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 24 June 2003 (2003-06-24) |
| 36 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 June 2003 (2003-06-25) |
| 37 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 26 June 2003 (2003-06-26) |
| 38 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 27 June 2003 (2003-06-27) |
| 39 | "Episode Seven" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 28 June 2003 (2003-06-28) |
| 40 | "Episode Eight" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 29 June 2003 (2003-06-29) |

### Big Roman Dig (2005)

Time Team's Big Roman Dig (2005) saw the "Big dig" format altered, in an attempt to avoid previous controversies, through the coverage of nine archaeological sites around the UK which were already under investigation by professional archaeologists. Time Team covered the action through live link-ups based at a Roman Villa at Dinnington in Somerset – itself a Time Team excavation from 2003. Over 60 other professionally supervised excavations were supported by Time Team and carried out around the country in association with the programme. A further hundred activities relating to Roman history were carried out by schools and other institutions around the UK.
Material from the Big Roman Dig relating to the Roman villa site at Dinnington, Somerset; along with material from the earlier episode at the same site - Time Team series 10, episode 2 "Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics" - was used in a Time Team Special, "The Big Roman Villa".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 41 | "Episode One" | TBA | TBA | 50°55′05″N 2°50′58″W﻿ / ﻿50.918152°N 2.849492°W﻿ / 50.918152; -2.849492 | 2 July 2005 (2005-07-02) |
| A series of live programmes with a Roman theme, featuring 10 sites. ||||||
| 42 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 2 July 2005 (2005-07-02) |
| 43 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 3 July 2005 (2005-07-03) |
| 44 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 4 July 2005 (2005-07-04) |
| 45 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 5 July 2005 (2005-07-05) |
| 46 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 6 July 2005 (2005-07-06) |
| 47 | "Episode Seven" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 7 July 2005 (2005-07-07) |
| 48 | "Episode Eight" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 9 July 2005 (2005-07-09) |
| 49 | "Episode Nine" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 9 July 2005 (2005-07-09) |

#### 2005 Extras

| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 50 | "Episode One" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| A series of live programmes with a Roman theme, featuring 10 sites. ||||||
| 51 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 52 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 53 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 54 | "Episode Five" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 55 | "Episode Six" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 56 | "Episode Seven" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 57 | "Episode Eight" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 58 | "Episode Nine" | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |

### Big Royal Dig (2006)

Edited into a Time Team special, "Big Royal Dig".
| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| 59 | "Episode One" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 25 August 2006 (2006-08-25) |
| Over the August bank holiday, they conducted excavations in three Royal gardens for the Queen. The event, timed to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday, was Time Team's 150th dig. (For full descriptions of the findings, see Buckingham Palace and Buckingham Palace Garden, Windsor Castle and Palace of Holyroodhouse.) In addition to the nightly programmes on Channel 4, six hours of live coverage per day was shown on More4. ||||||
| 60 | "Episode Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 19:25, 26 August 2006 (2006-08-26T19:25) |
| 61 | "Episode Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 20:00, 27 August 2006 (2006-08-27T20:00) |
| 62 | "Episode Four" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 21:00, 28 August 2006 (2006-08-28T21:00) |

#### More4 Extras

| # | Episode | Location | Director | Coordinates | Original airdate |
| TBA | "Day One" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 26 August 2006 (2006-08-26) |
| Six hours of live broadcast. ||||||
| TBA | "Day Two" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 27 August 2006 (2006-08-27) |
| Six hours of live broadcast. ||||||
| TBA | "Day Three" | TBA | TBA | TBA | 28 August 2006 (2006-08-28) |
| Six hours of live broadcast. ||||||