Time Team Extra

{{short description|British television series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox television | image = | runtime = 30 minutes<br /><small>(including adverts)</small> | creator = | producer = | presenter = Robin Bush | country = United Kingdom | network = Channel 4 | first_aired = {{Start date|1998|01|11|df=yes}} | last_aired = {{End date|1998|03|08|df=yes}} | num_series = 1 | num_episodes = 8 | related = {{Plainlist| * ''Time Signs'' * ''Time Team'' * ''History Hunters'' * ''Time Team Digs'' * ''Time Team Live'' * ''Time Team America'' }} }}

'''''Time Team Extra''''' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series ''Time Team'', that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994.

''Time Team Extra'' is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of ''Time Team'''s fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated.

==Production== The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland, including Hampton Court Palace, Jorvik Viking Centre, Stonehenge and Mellifont Abbey.<ref name="Series"/> The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, in the library of Benjamin Disraeli.<ref name="Series"/>

==Episodes== Each episode of ''Time Team Extra'' is thirty minutes long and originally aired from 11 January to 8 March 1998 on Channel 4.<ref name="Series">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=19|title=Time Team Extra|accessdate=2008-02-16|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> In each episode, historian Robin Bush and a guest look back at the week before's ''Time Team'' episode. ''Time Team'''s fifth series aired from 4 January to 1 March 1998.<ref name="Series5">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=5|title=The 1998 Series|accessdate=2008-02-16|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref>

{{Episode table |overall= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=1 | Title=Episode One | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|01|11|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Looking back at ''Time Team'''s dig in Richmond, Robin Bush interviews Dr. Simon Thurley, Director of the Museum of London.<ref name="Series"/> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=2 | Title=Episode Two | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|01|18|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Bush talks to Dr. Francis Pryor, the President of the Council for British Archaeology and looks back at the episode in Greylake.<ref name="Ep2">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=334|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-02- Greylake|accessdate=2008-02-17|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=3 | Title=Episode Three | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|01|25|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Following ''Time Team'''s episode in Orkney, which looked into Viking burial mounds, Robin Bush speaks to Viking Britain expert John Hunter, a professor at the University of Birmingham.<ref name="Ep3">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=335|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-03- Sanday|accessdate=2008-02-17|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=4 | Title=Episode Four | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|02|01|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Bush speaks to Guy de la Bédoyère about the ''Time Team'' Roman dig at Turkdean in the Cotswolds.<ref name="Ep4">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=336|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-04- Turkdean|accessdate=2008-02-17|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=5 | Title=Episode Five | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|02|08|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Robin Bush and his guest Professor Richard Bradley, of the University of Reading, look into Beaker culture following the ''Time Team'' episode based in Deià in Majorca.<ref name="Ep5">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=337|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-05- Deya|accessdate=2008-03-01|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=6 | Title=Episode Six | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|02|15|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Bush talks to Professor Ronald Hutton about the ''Time Team'' episode based at a medieval manor house in Aston Eyre in Shropshire.<ref name="Ep6">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=338|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-06- Aston Eyre|accessdate=2008-03-01|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=7 | Title=Episode Seven | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|03|01|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Joined by Dr. Peter Harbison, of the Royal Irish Academy and an expert of the early church in Ireland, Bush looks into St. Patrick's first church, the subject of the previous ''Time Team'' episode.<ref name="Ep7">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=339|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-07- Downpatrick|accessdate=2008-03-01|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=8 | Title=Episode Eight | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1998|03|08|df=yes}} | ShortSummary=Assisted by Dr. Richard Lomas of the Durham University, an expert on early medieval village life, Robin Bush looks into the former village of High Worsall in Yorkshire.<ref name="Ep8">{{cite web|url=http://www.timeteam.k1z.com/index.php?pid=340|title=Time Team Extra - 1998-08- High Worsall|accessdate=2008-03-01|author=|last=|first=|year=|format=|publisher=Unofficial Time Team Site}}</ref> }} }}

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0959983|Time Team Extra}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Time Team Extra}} Category:1998 British television series debuts Category:1998 British television series endings Category:Time Team