Time Team America

{{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = | writer = | director = | presenter = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | country = United States | num_seasons = 2 | num_episodes = 9 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = {{Unbulleted list| David Davis {{small|(OPB)}} | Tim Taylor {{small|(C4I Distribution)}}}} | producer = | runtime = 60 minutes | channel = PBS | first_aired = {{Start date|2009|07|08}} | last_aired = {{End date|2014|7|07}} | related = {{Unbulleted list|''Time Team''|''Time Team Digs''|''Time Team Extra''|''History Hunters''|''Time Team Live''}} }} '''''Time Team America''''' is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show ''Time Team'', produced in collaboration with Channel 4, which commissioned the original show,<ref name="credits"> {{cite web | title = About ''Time Team'' | website = PBS | department = Credits | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/credits.php | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090705080403/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/credits.php | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 5, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site.<ref name="about"> {{cite web | title = About ''Time Team'' | website = PBS | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/ | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130415134136/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 15, 2013 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref>

The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts [who] mostly join existing excavations ... [and] arrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site."<ref name="nytmay"> {{cite news |title=Digging (against the clock) for history |date=29 May 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/television/31jens.html }} </ref>

A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013.<ref> {{cite web |title=PBS' ''Time Team America'' |date=18 October 2011 |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/timeteamamerica |access-date=14 February 2012 }} </ref><ref> {{cite web |title=Time Team America |type=home page |website=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412054356/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 12, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2012 }} </ref> On December 20, 2011, PBS announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.<ref> {{cite web |title=PBS' ''Time Team America'' |date=20 December 2011 |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/timeteamamerica |access-date=14 February 2012 }} </ref>

==Episodes== When PBS introduced a video player on its website in mid-April 2009, an episode of ''Time Team America'' became the most viewed.<ref name="nytmay"/> Original air dates are as announced by PBS, but may vary by PBS station.

===Season 1 (2009)=== {{Episode table |total_width= |overall= |title= |aux1= |aux1T=Location |aux1R=<ref name="Site Reports"> {{cite web |url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ |archive-url = https://archive.today/20120906010102/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = September 6, 2012 |title = Site Reports |website = PBS |series = Time Team America }} — from the show's website </ref> |airdate= |airdateR=<ref name="broadcast"> {{cite web | title = About ''Time Team'' | website = PBS | department = Broadcast information | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/airdates.php | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706064957/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/about/airdates.php | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 6, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 1 |Title = Fort Raleigh, North Carolina |Aux1 = Roanoke Island, North Carolina |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|8}} |ShortSummary = The team travels to Roanoke Island to look for evidence of the Lost Colony of Fort Raleigh and learn what life might have been like for the first English colonists.<ref name="ep1"> {{cite web | title = Fort Raleigh | website = PBS | department = Site Reports | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ft_raleigh/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090705071458/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ft_raleigh/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 5, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }}</ref> }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |Title = Topper, South Carolina |Aux1=Topper, South Carolina |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|15}} |ShortSummary = Time Team America goes to the woodlands near the Savannah River in South Carolina to help with the excavation of the Topper site. One part of the team will dig a Clovis quarry, while the other will investigate a controversial cultural layer claimed to be pre-Clovis.<ref name="ep2"> {{cite web | title = Topper | website = PBS | department = Site Reports | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/topper/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706123728/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/topper/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 6, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |Title = New Philadelphia, Illinois |Aux1=New Philadelphia, Illinois |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|22}} |ShortSummary = New Philadelphia was the first town in the United States platted and registered by an African American, Free Frank McWorter, some 30 years before the Civil War. Time Team America joins the ongoing research of New Philadelphia to help search for the town's schoolhouse.<ref name="ep3"> {{cite web | title = New Philadelphia | website = PBS | department = Site Reports | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/newphilly/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706121240/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/newphilly/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 6, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |Title = Range Creek, Utah |Aux1 = Range Creek, Utah |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|29}} |ShortSummary = Time Team America was invited to Range Creek in the Book Cliffs in Utah to help with the research into the extraordinary well-preserved pit-houses and granaries of Fremont people.<ref name="ep4"> {{cite web | title = Range Creek | website = PBS | department = Site Reports | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/range_creek/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706123723/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/range_creek/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 6, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |Title = Fort James, South Dakota |Aux1 = Fort James, Hanson County, South Dakota |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|5}} |ShortSummary = Fort James in South Dakota was one of the few stone forts on the American frontier, and it was abandoned only a few years after it was built in the 1860s. The team goes on a mission to find out how big the fort was to protect its archaeology for future research.<ref name="ep5"> {{cite web | title = Fort James | website = PBS | department = Site Reports | series = Time Team America | url = https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ftjames/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090706121235/http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ftjames/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 6, 2009 | access-date = 16 August 2009 }} </ref> }} }}

===Season 2 (2014)=== After a four-year gap, Videotext Communications/PBS produced the second season, which aired in 2014.

{{Episode table |overall= |title= |aux1= |aux1T=Location |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 1 |Title = The Search for Josiah Henson |Aux1 = Maryland |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|6|16}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |Title = The Bones of Badger Hole |Aux1 = Oklahoma |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|6|23}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |Title = Lost Civil War Prison |Aux1 = Georgia |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|6|30}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |Title = The Lost Pueblo Village |Aux1 = Colorado |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|7|07}} }} }}

==Reviews== A ''Newsday'' reviewer wrote :"''Time Team America'' at moments, employs [an] approach much in favor at PBS, which worries – needlessly, I think – that the only way to make serious subjects appealing to the attention-deficit-disordered youth of our TV nation is to throw in plenty of zing, zest and zip. ... But don't hold any of this against the show, because it's engaging, thoughtful, smart, nicely produced and really, really interesting."<ref |name=newsday-2009-07-08> {{cite magazine |title = ''Time Team America'', archaeology on PBS |date = 8 July 2009 |magazine = Newsday |type = review |url = http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-ettel0812946717jul06,0,4288646.story |access-date = 2021-10-26 }}{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref>

==DVD== All five episodes of the first season have been released on separate DVDs.<ref name="pbs shop"> {{cite web | title = ''Time Team America'' | website = PBS Shop | url = http://www.shoppbs.org/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3696542 | access-date = 15 August 2009}} </ref>

==References== {{reflist|25em}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite magazine |last = Feinman |first = G. |date = 1 April 2010 |title = Science and public debate: A role for archaeology in today's news media |magazine = Anthropology News |volume = 51 |issue = 4 |pages = 12–13 }}

==External links== * {{official website |https://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/}} * {{IMDb title|1556097}}

Category:PBS original programming Category:2009 American television series debuts Category:2009 American television series endings Category:2000s American documentary television series Category:Archaeology of the United States Category:American television series based on British television series Category:Time Team