Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 26
12 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 2007
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- Episode 1: The Hunt for U864 Jan 5, 2007 · 50m The fascinating story of how, in February 1945, HMS Venturer hunted down and sank the U-boat U864 - a sub on a deadly secret mission. This documentary uses eyewitness accounts, archive…
- Episode 2: Beatlemania Jan 12, 2007 · 50m By 1966 the Beatles had played over 1400 gigs and sold 200 million records. At the height of their popularity, the Fab Four decided they would never tour again. Previously unseen archive…
- Episode 3: Killer Cloud Jan 19, 2007 · 50m A huge volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783 spewed out poisonous gases that enveloped Europe, killing thousands of Britons. The ensuing winter was one of the worst ever and cost countless…
- Episode 4: Hadrian's Wall Jan 26, 2007 · 50m A stone barrier 74-miles long, up to 15ft high, and 10ft thick: Hadrian's Wall stood as the Roman Empire's most imposing frontier for 300 years. Almost 2,000 years after it was built…
- Episode 5: The First Blitz Feb 2, 2007 · 50m Unlikely as it seems now, the first aerial bombardment of Britain was a Zeppelin raid on the unfortunate Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth with one fatality. The next three years saw a terror…
- Episode 6: The Last Duel Feb 9, 2007 · 50m Timewatch recalls the last days of the 600-year-old ritual of duelling, telling the story of two men who set out with pistols into the Scottish countryside on 23 August 1826 after arguing…
- Episode 7: Special: Remember the Galahad Apr 2, 2007 · 50m Almost a quarter of a century ago, 50 British servicemen lost their lives at Fitzroy inlet in the Falkland Islands when two supply ships, Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, were bombed by…
- Episode 8: Hijack Apr 13, 2007 · 50m September 1970: A BOAC flight with 20 school children on board was hijacked in the name of a Palestinian guerrilla group - the first and last time a British commercial aircraft has ever…
- Episode 9: The Wave That Destroyed Atlantis Apr 20, 2007 · 50m New evidence from the island of Crete suggests that Europe's first great civilisation, the Minoans, was destroyed by a cataclysmic natural disaster. Was the terrible fate of the Minoans…
- Episode 10: The Hidden Children Apr 27, 2007 · 50m By 1945 Vichy France had deported 76,000 Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Told in their own words, these are the stories of four children secretly hidden by ordinary French people…
- Episode 11: Gladiator Graveyard May 11, 2007 · 50m For centuries gladiators have been seen as legendary figures of the ancient world, based largely on speculation. For five years, two forensic anthropologists have been looking at thousands…
- Episode 12: The People's Coronation May 18, 2007 · 50m Timewatch celebrates its 25th anniversary with a return to the family that featured in its first programme, the Windsors. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 was the…